-
Education Week’s Teacher posted their Top 10 articles for 2016. There are some interesting articles in the list, especially Building Empathy in Classrooms and Schools. For an idea of what piqued our readers’ interests in 2016, the editors at Education Week Teacher compiled a list of the 10 most-viewed articles. Do you have a favorite…
-
Here are McKinsey&Company’s list of the top 10 articles that viewers reference or enjoyed for 2016. You might want to add these, or some of these, to your reading list. This year we published more than 400 articles and reports on McKinsey.com. And while we’re not obsessed with clicks and eyeballs, it’s interesting to see…
-
I am in the midst of reading Bruce Springsteen’s (@springsteen) autobiography, Born to Run. After hearing an interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona, I felt compelled to read his memoir. Listen to the interview at the link below. Terry Gross brings out the poet, the social…
-
The following pieces on education are worth reading or keeping on your to-do list. Many Students ‘Stop Out’ of High School, Studies Show Susan Sparks wrote a piece that looks at the number of students who may not ‘drop out’ of school, but who step away for a period of time, only to return later…
-
Judy Willis (@judywillis), author of a number of books on applying findings in neuroscience to support classroom and instructional design, wrote an interesting piece on Edutopia (@edutopia), Using Brain Breaks to Restore Students’ Focus. Willis, a former physician, turned in her clinician’s lab coat for a position teaching science to Middle School students. Leveraging her background in medicine,…