This writing assignment is courtesy of my friend, Dr. Scott Warnock of Drexel University, who has raised the readership of my 1998 short story, “Zenith,” 100x by assigning it to his students in a Literature of...
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I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
Read MoreCross-post from 11trees.com… Infographics are often quite silly. They try to boil down complex issues into simplistic graphics, with stick figures and stylized pie charts. The good ones, though, unveil some central truth...
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I was catching up on my reading and came across a wonderful essay on the economist Albert O. Hirschman (who I’d never heard of). My wife asked me what I was doing, and I said, “I’m reading this wonderful...
Read MoreMy daughter is in seventh grade. She’s reading Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff (and that Homer guy), and enjoying it. She was sitting on a Saturday morning (after a good shot of cartoons) reading – every...
Read MoreWe’ve been revisiting the assumptions and research on feedback recently – more to come on that. In a nutshell, faith in the power of feedback has fueled my work for almost 10 years. And clearly the...
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I don’t know much about standardized testing; I took the PSAT and the SAT. I was a decent...
Read MoreAt home this summer we’ve been trying to keep some math and reading in the daily (weekly) routine – just so we don’t all forget how to subtract compound fractions. I gave my daughter a hard-ish multiplication...
Read MoreA great take-down of the above from Dr. Scott Warnock: Pay attention: Standardized tests are destroying education, part 1 (of 874) We have always believed that there is a third way: assessment based on expert observation of...
Read MoreWill the College Board’s redesign of AP courses inspire (free?) teachers and students to truly focus on big ideas?
Read MoreWe just attended the National League for Nursing (NLN) Summit to exhibit and learn more about Nursing Education. Rubrics and continuous improvement are already a big part of most nursing programs, and hybrid and online degrees...
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