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...
I want to tell you about one of my closest friends---Dr. Joe Abruscato---and how he influenced me in my journey through life. Joe and I met in graduate school at The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1967. We were part of a group of high school science teachers who had...
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,...
I just returned from England, which of course became the center of climate controversy after hundreds of e-mails were stolen from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University. As we all know by now, these private emails (but what is private in the world of the...
