Turn anything into a lesson, but will it stick?
A friend of mine has done something unusual with the celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday this year. She teaches young adolescents with moderate cognitive disabilities and behavior problems, and this year, she chose King’s 1964 Nobel Prize acceptance speech as the basis for a series of lessons in reading, language arts, civics, etc. […]
Where does effective reform come from?
Thursday, Andy Rotherham challenged historians of education: [H]ere’s a question for the historians that might help explain why education does careen from one thing to the next. What are the most compelling examples of where the education system has reformed itself in ways that have demonstrably benefited students? Haven’t most of the reforms, for good […]