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Nobody Tests Children As Much as the United States Does and That is a Problem
No other nation tests children as often as we do in the United States. And…
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No other nation tests children as often as we do in the United States. And…
Read More »Anyone who knows me knows that I am a firm believer in the usefulness of philosophy and theory. It’s not…
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Read More »Education professor Mike Rose describes just how wonderfully intelligent and creative everyday people are in their everyday work. He challenges the idea that…
Read More »So, a little over six decades ago, in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools in the United States…
Read More »Dr. Chris Emdin explores what teachers can learn from trips to church and hip-hop performances. Emdin takes his talk to…
Read More »At Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963, John F. Kennedy shares the three obligations of the educated citizen.
Read More »I love this speaker series by AERA that features mini-lectures by education researchers. In this video, Dr. Young-Suk Kim makes…
Read More »Writing is at the heart of learning. It has been for centuries. But when I work with teachers in different…
Read More »Detroit Public Schools have become a powerful cautionary tale for many in education. The idea that a major school system…
Read More »This project combines the timelessness of a Rube Goldberg machine with the novelty of fidget…
Read More »Ever since I read her book Not For Profit, I’ve been drawn to University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum’s take…
Read More »An estimated 105 million students watched this 1946 film about menstruation. There’s so much one could say about this, but…
Read More »I’ve been listening to an audiobook of John Dewey’s classic Democracy in Education [free here]. Listening to his work is…
Read More »Nutrition is one of those issues that gets left out of conversations about education too often. If we step back…
Read More »I am blown away by how well the team at Wine Folly help the broader world learn about wine. Honestly.…
Read More »I loved hearing Howard Gardner describe the limits of assessments, a kind warning to parents and the public to let…
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