Robert Frost

The President Reminds Us Why We Teach Poetry

It was 1963 and Robert Frost had died. President Kennedy offered a glorious eulogy for Frost, but it was also…

Robert Frost’s “To a Thinker”

The last step taken found your heft Decidedly upon the left. One more would throw you on the right Another…

Gradgrind’s is an education blog run by Tom Liam Lynch. A professor in New York City, Tom co-founded Babble Lab, a center for digital humanities pedagogy and research at Pace University, helped establish an international consortium of coding schools for refugees called Room 7, and is launching a nationwide initiative called CS4ELA to explore ways to embed computer science into K-12 English classes. His new collection of essays on education, technology, and teaching English is called Strata and Bones.

Robert Frost

Arts + Letters

The President Reminds Us Why We Teach Poetry

Arts + Letters

Robert Frost’s “To a Thinker”

Mapping Our Fears

Gotta Love These Funny Test Fails

Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School

How the Need for Education Reform Was Framed in New York State

What a Squirrel in City Hall Park Teaches Us about Learning

Quit Your Job Because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Education Department is Hiring

The Harry Potter Spreadsheet (Sure Looks Like Computational Thinking To Me)

What You Learn Reading 5 Million Books at Once

Literacy and Orality Nerds, There’s a Walter Ong Lecture Online

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