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March 2018

March 21, 2018

Education And The Pursuit of Truth, Or A Job?

From Kenan Malik: [HT: JS] Nearly half a century later came the Browne inquiry into the funding...

September 2016

September 05, 2016

Educational Speculation: Learning Styles

Some educrats had a hunch that different students learned differently and, voila, we have a...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

Lectures Obsolete?

From Christine Gross-Loh: As a doctoral candidate interviewing at a liberal-arts college some years ago,...

June 2016

June 03, 2016

Nicholas Kristof Keeps Saying It

Nicholas Kristof: As I see it, there are three good reasons for universities to be...

June 03, 2016

The Ultimate Form of Cheating/Plagiarism

Sam Dean: For most people, essay writing becomes a thing of the past as soon...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

Collaborative Education

Sarah Grossman: At a time when many U.S. schools are failing students of color, one school...

April 05, 2016

What’s Missing from Bernie’s Free Tuition Plan?

Robert Gebelhoff, at WaPo: It’s a tight race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in...

March 2016

March 01, 2016

Academic Freedom in the Halls of Power

By Roger Scruton at Modern Times: Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the...

February 2016

February 10, 2016

Immigrant Children are Educated Free in the USA

Emma Brown: As U.S. presidential candidates fight over the best way to address the influx...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Jeff Bryant is Right about Education Reforms

Jeff Bryant, from Salon: I call these folks the edu-crats. Education is not a top-down...

January 08, 2016

Learning Styles, a Neuromyth

Source Are you a visual learner who writes notes in a rainbow of different colors,...

January 03, 2016

No Child Left Behind — What Worked?

Ben Casselman: Nearly a decade and a half later, No Child Left Behind is often described as a...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

Self-Directed Study

Will this work? Erin Siegal McIntyre: Nothing in particular stands out about the two adjoining...

November 17, 2015

Hillary Clinton and Educational Outcomes

Source: According to the transcript, Clinton responded, “I believe in diagnostic testing that teachers can...

September 2015

September 22, 2015

Heaven Promise Livestream Event

Missed Scot's LIVE Q&A on The Heaven Promise? Not to worry...you can watch it...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Teacher Burnout: Why?

Angie Miller, through Valerie Strauss, at WaPo: It is August, the Sunday of summer, and...

August 17, 2015

CCCU and Dissenters

Evidently, the decision by Eastern Mennonite and Goshen -- two (progressive, if I may) Mennonite...

August 12, 2015

Neocosmopolitan or Non-cosmopolitan?

Source: Temporary residents will not assimilate or acculturate as do those who immigrate. But... what...

July 2015

July 10, 2015

Tuition Debts Revealed

See this from WaPo? Take a look at the article at the link:

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Do We Need Libraries?

My answer is that we need librarians today more than any time in history. Librarians are...

March 2015

March 08, 2015

15 Women Leading the Way

It is International Women's Day, and we saw this set of images of what women...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

A Teacher’s Story (by Cheryl Arnold)

As many of you know, my daughter, Laura, and I published a book together late...

January 2015

January 06, 2015

Ban Laptops in Class?

This professor, Tal Gross, says Yes. Image. What say you? Granted, laptops have their advantages....

January 02, 2015

Too Much Emphasis on STEM?

Emily Eckart (at the link read the whole article): It is commonly claimed that STEM...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Gender and Student Evaluations

Matt Shipman: A new study shows that college students in online courses give better evaluations...

December 19, 2014

Wisdom of Richard J. Mouw

Richard J. Mouw, former President at Fuller Seminary, has been one of the most versatile...

December 08, 2014

Sit Still, Fidgeting and Public Schools

By Angela Hanscom Except for brief periods of getting up and switching classrooms, I’ve been...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Liberals vs. Conservatives: Educational Values

Christopher Ingraham: Liberals and conservatives prioritize very different values when it comes to educating their...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Teaching to the Test: Something Needs to Change

Source: Public education is one of the foundations of our democracy. It is, arguably, the...

August 2014

August 03, 2014

Essays on Education

The following essays about education and reading by me are now being gathered into this...