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From the Blog
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Arts + Letters
Words like Water: How a Baby Learned to Speak
You take a techy who becomes a dad and has a fascination with language. Then add videocameras all throughout the…
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History + Politics
A Place to Put Stuff (1928)
Public education means lots of children who have stuff that needs to be put somewhere so they can focus on…
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Humanities
Let’s see How a Computer “Feels” about Walt Whitman in Honor of #NationalPoetryMonth
In honor of National Poetry Month, I unearthed this computational example of reading poetry. I took an e-text version of…
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Arts + Letters
Nominations Now Open for the Best Education Writing of 2018
I walked into a bookstore last week. There were stacks of perennial Best books, but no book called The Best…
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Watch
Colbert’s Warning About the Dangers of Texting
It is easy for parents and teachers to feel uncomfortable with the ubiquity of cell phones in children’s lives. In…
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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
The Melville School of Real-World Learning
There are many reasons to love Moby Dick, but the author’s compelling comparison of a whaling ship to Ivy League…
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Culture
Teaching as Magical
Dr. Chris Emdin explores what teachers can learn from trips to church and hip-hop performances. Emdin takes his talk to…
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Civics
Some or All of the Above: College Board’s Timely Lesson on Education Reform
When a friend asked me what I thought about a recent New York Times column lauding College Board’s overhaul of…
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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.
