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October 2011

October 27, 2011

For the Common Good 1 (RJS)

I've been reading a book lately, For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom...

October 17, 2011

Private Non-Religious Schools

Cardus Education Survey: Private Non-religious Schools (my thanks to Helen Lee for inviting Amy Julia...

September 2011

September 23, 2011

Cardus Education Survey, Homeschoolers: Helen Lee

Robert Kunzman is an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Education, and his...

September 22, 2011

Education and Character

By Paul Tough on Dominic Randolph, a teacher, who thinks standardized testing and IQ tests...

September 19, 2011

Thoughts on Homeschooling

Among my students right now, two homeschooled students are exceptional in all ways: intelligence, personality,...

September 12, 2011

UCal Education

From The Economist: NINE of the ten campuses of the University of California—led by Berkeley—once...

September 07, 2011

Christ of the Academic Road 1

No American evangelical scholar has risen up through the ranks of a discipline more than...

September 02, 2011

What Type of School Did You Attend?

This post is from Helen Lee, author of the very fine book The Missional Mom:...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Crazy College Course Titles

CNN.com has a list of bizarre college course titles, and this has got to my...

August 31, 2011

Beloit College Mind-Set 2011

Every year Beloit College produces a list that characterizes the incoming first year student class....

August 26, 2011

Student Loans

From The Atlantic, by Daniel Indiviglio: You think the housing bubble was enormous? Meet the...

August 24, 2011

Tiger Mom Loses to Reindeer Mom

About Finland's schools, by Lynnell Hancock: Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science...

August 01, 2011

For Teachers

From A.J. Heschel: The first moment of each class is like the hour in which...

July 2011

July 19, 2011

Academic Networking

Lincoln Mullenr wrote this sophisticated little piece, which you'll have to read in full to...

May 2011

May 17, 2011

Teaching Methods in Science

From the Economist: Dr Deslauriers’s lab rats were a group of 850 undergraduate engineering students...

May 03, 2011

Raise the Salaries of Public School Teachers

From NYTimes: WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we...

May 02, 2011

The Next Bubble?

By Lexington at The Economist: A LOT of people, not least my colleague Schumpeter, have been...

February 2011

February 23, 2011

Academic Drift 2

In Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa prove --...

February 21, 2011

Academic Drift 1

In their new stunning book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, a book that...

February 01, 2011

Should Teachers Befriend Students? 3 (Sam Lamerson)

GRADE INFLATION It had to be one of the most shocking letters that I had...

January 2011

January 20, 2011

Should Teachers Befriend Students? 2 (Sam Lamerson)

Technology in the Classroom A friend of mine is a middle-school teacher. She told me...

January 16, 2011

What about those group projects?

Educators, ahem "educrats," are convinced that if we do group projects in class students will...

January 13, 2011

Should Teachers Befriend Students? 1 (Sam Lamerson)

This series is by friend (and former student), Sam Lamerson, who is now a well-read...

December 2010

December 13, 2010

Pressure on our high schoolers

From the NYTimes, which uses this opener for a set of responses: A new documentary,...

December 12, 2010

What do you think?

Here's quite the presentation on educational theories...

November 2010

November 22, 2010

Frightening Levels of Cheating

I was sent a link to this page, I read the article, and I was...

November 01, 2010

Top Ten Teacher Movies

CNN has its list, but I think they've left out some better ones. What do...

October 2010

October 19, 2010

Books for Teachers

I got this letter: I am a regular reader of your blog, and we actually...

September 2010

September 01, 2010

Not all write

If you are in the business world, the bottom line tells the story and one...

February 2010

February 10, 2010

Seminary Re:mixed

Seminaries are today again up for review. The editors at Christian Century have a series...