I (heart) The Little Professor
Why I love Miriam Burstein’s The Little Professor blog: If you sow dragon’s teeth in order to reap soldiers, what do you reap after sowing apostrophes? Editors, maybe? I needed that, on a day of traveling.
So, um, … how about writing about MY book?
Kevin Carey wrote yesterday: At any given moment, there’s a limited amount of room in the general consciousness for books about education, and over the past few months a lot of that space has been occupied by Linda Perlstein’s new book, Tested. Which, as I explain in my review in this month’s Washington Monthly, is […]
Please tell me it’s August or November
What is possibly worse than being sick in a temperate-climate February is being sick in early October when the temperatures are in the upper 80s outside and when you know part of the reason why you’re not well yet is because you drove to another city 2 hours away three times in the last two […]
Backlash against formative assessment
As reported in the Orlando Sentinel education blog, some educators are worried about the time occupied by tests given throughout the year, tests that school districts hope will track predicted scores on the spring tests in Florida (FCAT): In plain language there are 8 full student days wasted on these tests. By the time FCAT comes […]
Caribbean Frost
By Sherman Dorn on October 10, 2007
In the honors class I’m teaching, I’m trying some without-a-net activities each week to connect technology with social and cultural history. One recent week, I asked students to describe the aesthetics of everyday objects. In a plurality of cases, students discussed the commercial choices involved in consumer-product design–i.e., that the aesthetics are shaped as part […]
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