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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Wanted: Teachers in Kansas

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No kidding! Kansas, like everywhere else, has suddenly come alive to the fact that their teachers are retiring * and there are no replacem...
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Ubiquitous 50 Percent

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50 Percent. That number comes up again and again and again. Tonight I heard it yet again on The Newshour with Jim Lerher . Principals say...
Friday, December 28, 2007

The Problem with the Housing Market is the Schools...

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...and mortgage bailouts do nothing to address the root causes. According to the book, The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Go...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

The Goal in Japan is NOT to Pass the Entrance Exam...

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...Rather the goal is to avoid failing it. For Americans this may not seem to be an important distinction, but it is essential for understa...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Which Kind of Teacher are You?

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That is what the book Mathematical and Analogical Reasoning of Young Learners says there are. The three kinds of teachers are 1. theoretic...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Japanese Schools are More Homogeneous than US Schools.

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There are many reasons why Japanese secondary schools display a much more uniform high quality than US secondary schools, including, but not...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Teachers Are the Most Important Variable!

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Plenty of PhD types have made their careers researching and reporting on what is wrong with our education system and how to fix it. Most res...
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