This week's Newsweek magazine included three lead articles entitled Why we can't get rid of failing teachers?, Schoolyard Brawl, and Blackboard Jungle. The next day, Teacher Magazine featured an online discussion related to these articles entitled Is Firing Bad...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.---Robert Frost From the White House, to most Governor's houses around the country, Americans are being led down a pathway that the creative and innovative...
Yesterday I republished a post I wrote in October about the Race to the Top Fund, which is a $4.3 billion effort by the U.S. Department of Education to grant to winning States millions of dollars to increase student achievement, use student achievement data to...
This first weblog post for the year 2010 is dedicated to my science education colleague, writing partner, and dear friend, Dr. Joseph Abruscato. I'll write about Joe in my next post, but I want to honor him here by identifying topics that motivated me this past year,...
In a recently published book, Science Education from People to People, (Kindle edition here) the contributing authors have created a book that builds up perspectives on science, scientific literacy, and science education "grounded in the lives of real people and that...
Health care has emerged as one of the most contentious issues of the day in the USA. The contention is not new. This PBS time line covering the past 100 years identifies points of contention and progress in the government's attempt to deal with health care on a...
