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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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The Issue is NOT Algebra 2—The Issue is First-Grade Math

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A novelist writing for Harpers believes students should not be required to study Algebra 2. The fact that students "are forced, repea...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

BTW High Regard Correlates with High Achievement

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Peter Gow argues that the one feature we commonly dismiss with an airy “by the way” is the one feature all the school systems we admire shar...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

The Relationship Between Memorized Facts and Online Research

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In China, many people believe that the Tiananmen incident is a fabrication perpetrated by Western governments in order to discredit the Chin...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

When Caring Trumps Even Excellence

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A teacher in Memphis describes her efforts to make a substantial difference in the lives of students who live in poverty. Surprisingly and...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Student Centered or Abdication?

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Currently on the education forums there are some proponents of extreme student centered instruction. They insist all our education problem...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Silly Charter School Debate

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I am becoming more and more weary of silly education debates. A case in point is the ongoing criticism of most charter school studies. ...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Common Core—Cart Before Horse

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“You know the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery are now extinct.” ----W. Somerset Maugham Reading over most of the back and fo...
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