Daily Archives: 6:07 AM
DonorsChoose.org gift-card program aids teachers, kids in LAUSD
Laptops and printers, paints and markers, microscopes and musical instruments. Even seeds and rocks. More than $1.4 million in projects like these have been funded in the two months since… Read more
Better Research Needed on the Impact of Charter Schools
Charter schools have been promoted as a solution to what many view as the public school malaise in the United States. Charter schools, although publicly funded, can operate fairly independently… Read more
Indigenous Innovation: How Small Places can Change the World
Alan Lishness – As chief innovation officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Alan Lishness designs and leads science education programming for Maine middle school students, reaching 60,000 students… Read more
21st Century Education Requires Distributed Support for Learning
By Chris Dede – Educational transformation is coming not because of the increasing ineffectiveness of schools in meeting society’s needs – though that is certainly a good reason –… Read more
Communicate Clearly With Less Content
By Rick Allen – I love content, but nothing gets me pumped more than cutting it. Crop. Delete. Remove. Archive. Why? Because the road to clear communication often leads to… Read more
Are the Right People Becoming Teachers?
Martin Haberman – Because education “experts” will have their own status lowered if they prepare jobholders rather than professionals
