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T. Elijah Hawkes wrote an excellent article in this month’s Phi Delta Kappan entitled, No Child’s Fate is Sealed. I want to draw your attention to his article because it was inspirational to me. He captured the most important reasons why school exists for students. It isn’t about the learning content, being on teams or…
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Reading this article in Education Week, New Rules Push Down Grad Rates, leaves me with very little confidence in our educational system. It seems to me that students are simply pawns in a vast system that doesn’t even understand how to motivate them to fulfill their dreams. In fact, I would surmise that our educational…
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The recent American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Vancouver, BC had the theme, Flattening World: Building a Global Knowledge Society. In the March 30 edition of Science, Edward Lempinen wrote a summary, In a Flattening World: Innovation Must Be Global, of the keynote address and other talks by prominent participants. What…
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The recent issue of Harvard Graduate School of Education’s, Ed., ran an article written by Lory Hough entitled, Are You Down With or Done With Homework? Her article continues the conversation that has been going on for many years about the value of students doing hours of homework after spending 6-7 hours in school. She…
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On the United States political scene, we have seen a polarized conversation around our country’s energy policy. Drill or don’t drill for more oil, build or don’t build pipelines from Canada, support or don’t support more nuclear power plants, invest or don’t invest in more alternative energy resources, and global warming is related to human…
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