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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Monday, September 22, 2014

Class Policies for High School

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These are the class policies I use for junior high and high school math and science classes. They are quite brief, but effective because stu...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

How to Evaluate a Math Textbook

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Regardless of Common Core, everybody knows that practically speaking, the textbook IS the curriculum. Therefore, it behooves textbook adopt...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Exactly Those Contrary Ideas

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Twenty years ago the late comedian Bill Hicks felt obliged to defend the blasphemous content of his stand-up routine. In so doing he said ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Increased Reporting DOES NOT Increase Achievement

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So here I am, in the land of tiger moms, where supposedly parents are highly involved in their child's education, even riding that pendu...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

College Return on Investment

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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) recently published their evaluation of the lifetime payoff of a college degree , concludi...
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...
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