This blog was begun in 2005 with the publication of the first edition of The Art of Teaching Science. Six hundred or so posts later, we find ourselves in at the end of 2011. This year, we published four eBooks based on blog posts made during 2011. More eBooks will...
Dear President Obama, Educational reform is in need of your attention and help. The 2012 election is only 11 months away, and I am writing this letter to you and your team for consideration as a policy statement as you outline your views on education, especially as...
In an important article in Education Week, Willis D. Hawley and Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, explain why students' cultural identities are integral to "measuring" teacher effectiveness. As it stands now, student achievement test scores are being used as the measure of...
If Mayor Michael Bloomberg had his way, he told students at M.I.T. that he would fire half the teachers in New York City, pay them twice as much to teach classes double the current size. One of the Corporate Reform Movement slogans is weed out ineffective teachers....
Education reform in education seen through the lens of writers and teachers appears as repetitions of innovative ideas that claimed to change and improve schooling as we know it. In a post at Education Week, Anthony Weiner suggests that education reform of any age...
The equation above can also be expressed as follows: The No Child Left Behind Act + the Race to the Top Fund = More of the Same NCLB & Race to the Top In an edweek.org newsletter there was a No Child Left Behind Alert that I found interesting, and provided the...
