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From the Blog
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Civics
Food for the Brain–Really
We don’t talk enough about nutrition in education. I don’t mean nutrition curricula, which is also important. I mean we…
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Civics
Education, Equity, and Love
NYU Professor David Kirkland pens this powerful and heartfelt piece on the role of love in real education reform. It…
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Equity
Teaching a 6-year-old the Meaning of Hate
It was 1960 when Ruby Bridges became a symbol for desegregation in the country. Following Brown v. Board of Education–the…
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Civics
Malala Address to the UN
Malala Yousafzai | July 12, 2013 Honourable UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon, respected president of the General Assembly Vuk…
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Computer Science Education
Shakespearean Robotics
In honor of Shakespeare’s 454th birthday, I presented BardBots–a Shakespearean introduction to computational thinking. Students study monologues from Shakespeare, annotate…
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Assessment
Gotta Love These Funny Test Fails
This list of hilarious wrong answers on tests says as much to me about the inadequacies of traditional assessment practices…
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Administrators
James Baldwin on Education
James Baldwin notes that in order to talk about education, we have to talk about the society in which it…
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Arts + Letters
Tim Gunn, Master Teacher? Yup.
I occasionally watch clips from Project Runway. Not whole episodes, but clips. I think one of the things I’m drawn…
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Civics
Learn from Wittgenstein Why It’s So Hard to Communicate Online
You cannot separate language from technology in the digital age. It’s impossible (or fruitless) to do so. Digital technology is…
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Project: States of Education
Unlike any other country to which the United States is compared, we do not define the right to public education at a national level. It’s not in the federal Constitution, nor the Bill of Rights. Instead, public education was a bit of an afterthought, inserted into state constitutions beginning well after the birth of the country. The result? We have 50 different definitions for the purpose of and right to public education. No wonder it’s so challenging to effect change. How does YOUR state define the right to public education? Tom made an interactive map to help you find out.
