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Advice
Street Corner Coaching: An Overview of How To Approach Assessment in Teaching
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History + Politics
Pay Science and Math Teachers More? Maybe.
Some areas are K-12 teaching are harder to staff than others. Just ask any school principal you know. It’s really…
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Equity
FDR on Educational Inequity in 1938. Could’ve Been Written Today.
When you read and listen to enough presidential speeches about education, it becomes unsurprising that American presidents tend to frame…
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STEM
Want to Learn to Code? Start WITH Scratch, Not From It.
The father of Scratch, MIT’s Mitch Resnik, offers this thoughtful talk on why it’s important to learn to code, how…
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Aldous Huxley Gives Eery Interview in 1958, Predicting the Politics and Technologies We See Today
Education is the defense, Huxley says, against autocratic uses of technology to control peoples’ desires. We have a lot of…
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Equity
“I think they threw a book at a Negro student in a study hall”: What we might learn from the Clinton 12 (1956)
It’s been just sixty years since twelve students of color in Clinton, Tennessee were integrated into high school with their…
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Administrators
Why Ed Tech Breaks Your Heart & How to Avoid It
I’ve advised hundreds of educators and school leaders on educational technology. Here’s why ed tech usually breaks our hearts and…
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English Language Learning
What’s Your Capacity for Language? See What Chomsky Thinks.
I have re-watched this several times, always intrigued by Chomsky’s notion that what happens internally (within the mind) when one…
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English Language Learning
Forget What You Know About “Correct” English. It Never Really Existed. Here’s Why.
Imagine for a moment that what you think you know about things like grammar and correctness of language is actually…
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Curriculum
And this is How to Teach Writing in Science Class
I used to do a project with my 9th grade English students where they’d rap literary critiques of Chaucer’s Canterbury…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Literacy
Watch How Children’s Vocabulary Grows
The more work I do at the intersection of education and technology, the more I…
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To Your Health
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Civics
Cafeteria Food & Race
Listen to this episode Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast series Revisionist History, where he looks at how two universities’ decisions to serve particular…
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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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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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Health + Nutrition
Lunch as a Required Course of Study
How Japanese schools approach lunch is eye-opening, especially as many conversations about public education are reduced to narrowly defined academics.…
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Charter Schools
A Defense of Charter Schools
Charter schools received much criticism over the last several years–most recently by John Oliver in a viral segment–as the Obama…
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Assessment
Howard Gardner On the Limits of Assessments
I loved hearing Howard Gardner describe the limits of assessments, a kind warning to parents and the public to let…
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