Vocational education used to be where you sent the dumb kids or the supposed misfits who weren’t suited for classroom learning. It began to fall out of fashion about 40 years ago, in part because it became a civil rights issue: voc-ed was seen as a form of segregation, a convenient dumping ground for...
Jonah Lehrer’s new book on creativity seems to be getting quoted in all sorts of places which is a sure sign that it’s got some interesting thinking in it....
Televangelist Pat Robertson recently made a gaffe. A gaffe, as journalist Michael Kinsley defined it, occurs when a political figure accidentally tells the truth. Robertson’s truth is that America’s...
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America’s criminal justice system should keep communities safe, treat people fairly, and use fiscal resources wisely. But more Americans are deprived of their liberty than ever before – unfairly...
Discover the tools and techniques today’s teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow — and how you can get involved.What should collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical...
David Weinberger recently talked with Hugh McKellar, editor in chief of KMWorld, about how the new knowledge-networked knowledge-will forever change the way we understand everything. Weinberger is the author...
With increasingly competitive environments and struggling economies, today’s organizations are trying to stay afloat in rough waters. Internal and external pressures are placing demands on organizations that are affecting...
Even though the field of knowledge management KM has been around for 15 to 20 years, it is still evolving and has room for improvement. When we look at...
If you want to see the future—and who doesn’t?—the place to begin your search is now. It’s not only that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, as...
Terrific set of ideas on this topic. Differentiated Learning.
Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education.
THE CHALLENGE Adolescent learners vary widely in their physical, emotional, and cognitive development. For many teachers, the most challenging aspect of teaching middle school students is the constant problem...
Mathematically gifted students have needs that differ in nature from those of other students. They require some differentiated instruction, defined by Tomlinson (1995) as “consistently using a variety of...
Math teachers will have to modify many of their academic strategies as a result of the higher and broader expectations of the Common Core State Standards CCSS in mathematics....
On February 1, the FCC and the Department of Education unveiled a “Digital Textbook Playbook” (PDF), a guide to help K-12 schools makes the transition from printed textbooks to...
This revolution’s “tipping point” came earlier this year at the International Forum for Visual Practitioners annual conference, which drew 100 visual practitioners from across the globe. The panel I...
Assessing high schools is as varied as the data collected on high school. The Defining a 21st Century Education report uses data from a few places that school boards...
The National School Boards Association NSBA was encouraged on Thursday by President Barack Obama’s announcement to waive problematic and burdensome regulatory requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act...
Rhode Island is fortunate to have Deborah Gist as commissioner, she’s a real chief for change. Gist and her team held a digital learning summit in Providence today. I...
… Nobody yet knows how the coming budget battles will play out and how Congress will allocate $1.2 trillion in automatic spending “sequestration” cuts that are scheduled for January...
