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From the Blog
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Watch
I Have Learned that Smartphones Are Kind of Like Brain Candy
Technology is a double-edged sword. It might make new kinds of innovation possible, but it also can have problematic effects…
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Equity
How Did That Race to the Top End?
Race to the Top is the Obama Administration’s education reform initiative. It overlapped with former President Bush’s No Child Left…
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Arts + Letters
Does This SNL Poetry Lesson Go Horribly Wrong or Horribly Right? You Tell Me.
It goes without saying that teaching is almost always portrayed in television and film thinly. Teaching is a craft, a…
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Administrators
What If the Crisis in Public Education Is Not What You Think?
Over the past month, teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, and North Carolina led mass protests, accusing state…
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Computer Science Education
You Probably Haven’t Heard of Distant Reading, So Let’s Fix That
I was elated to read EdSurge’s write up of an English teacher in Massachusetts who teaches distant reading to high…
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Arts + Letters
Yo-Yo Ma on Learning Incrementally. Beautiful.
Want an educational jolt? Watch the first four minutes of Yo-Yo Ma’s Tiny Desk performance, where he follows up his…
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Culture
Clearly There is a Preferred Place in Which to Watch this History of Toilets
There really is so much to learn in this world. This particular topic wasn’t on my list. Butt now it…
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Charter Schools
Protecting Public Schools…from the Vatican?
As public education spread in 19th century cities, many feared that private interests were trying to undermine schools’ public purpose. In particular, the…
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Health + Nutrition
All I’m saying is That When Parents Tried School Lunches a Meatball Actually Bounced
I once mused to a friend that if policymakers did nothing other than improve the quality of food served to…
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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.
