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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Websites for Kids

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Parents have been asking me to recommend some websites. Out of the universe of possibilities, I have selected several worthy contenders: ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Infographics: Sometimes Too Good to be True

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There are some really intriguing infographics on the visual.ly website. However, teachers need to be careful about considering them as te...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Flipping Classrooms: Back to the Future

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Billed as the latest great thing in education, flipping is supposed to revolutionize classrooms by relegating routine information to video-w...
Friday, December 27, 2013

The Power of Self-Control for Children

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Last month I wrote that the most powerful predictor of academic achievement is actually classroom behavior, and that one of the most effecti...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Surprising Secret to Academic Achievement

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Over the years parents have often asked me how they can support their child's academic performance at home. Until very recently, I gave...
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...