In his article titled, “Wait a Minute” published in The Atlantic last month, Jonathan Rauch observed that the Internet thrives on “instanticity”. For many people, and particularly for middle and high school students, the ability to send and receive information… Read more >
During an interview with Michael Shaughnessy published in Ed News ten years ago, E.D. Hirsch stated, “Children go to school for more than a decade because learning is gradual, and there is a great deal to be learned – especially… Read more >
Within many kindergarten programs, there is a healthy debate about the amount of academic content that should be covered. Educators who promote a predominantly play-based curriculum suggest emphasizing academics that includes early reading and numeracy skills may compromise the development… Read more >
Teaching is a profession with an exceedingly short runway: each year schools hire new teachers and ask them to supervise a classroom and implement a curriculum from day one.
In recent years, many new kinds of kindergarten programs have developed, each promoting a particular set of qualities to help children thrive as they begin their time at school.
When smart phones saturated the market a decade ago and Facebook reached its dominance about five years later, the way the current generation of students interact and learn changed.
“Growth mindset” has received a great deal of interest since Carol Dweck, a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, began writing on this topic in the last dozen years.
There’s a never-ending battle in many of the classrooms I have visited throughout my career: squirmy children, who obviously need to move, are often asked to sit in their chairs for long periods without interruption.
Anyone who is in a position of evaluating writing samples knows there’s much more to good writing than using proper grammar and correct punctuation . . .
When Winston Churchill was a 15 year-old student at a British boarding school, he wasn’t doing very well. Following a particularly bad school year in 1889-90, his mother, Jennie Churchill, wrote him a letter…
