School Crossing: The Intersection of Education and Society

Provocative commentary on competing educational stakeholders and how their entrenched interests collide to obstruct the goal of world-class education in America. Includes teacher training and quality, curriculum design, teaching resources, Japanese education models, book reviews, practical teaching tips, more.

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Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Lost Class of 1959 Prepares for Their Fiftieth Reunion

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A reader has asked me to address the strange case of the lost class of 1959. In the true spirit of promoting racism at any cost, the politi...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

Are You an Education Obstructionist?

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Carl Wieman , 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics winner, wants to fix science education in America. We are now at a watershed in higher education...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

A Parable for School Budgets

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Henry Petroski, author of To Engineer is Human , tells how he introduces the concept of structural fatigue to engineering students. I bring ...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

How to Redeem the Time

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Let's take inventory: 1. Education system locked in the past 2. Lack of competitive edge 3. Financial turmoil 4. Re...
Friday, September 19, 2008

What Career-Change Teachers Want

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Surveys regularly tell us that career-changers are attracted to teaching. The latest survey is no exception, finding that 42 percent of co...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

"The Teachers Baby Us"

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Even "A" students find themselves placed in remedial courses at college. Nationwide it is estimated that one-third of college st...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

We Need to Start Talking Seriously about Education Now!

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According to Ed Week , it is pretty unusual for candidates to talk about education this close to an election. That is part of the problem. ...
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