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, December 30, 2015

Nobody Understands Place Value

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Parents often ask me to help their children with math homework. My reply is always the same. I am not interested in “helping” with homewor...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Rote Does A Lot of People A Lot of Good

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Recently I read a forum comment somewhere to the effect that “rote does not do anyone much good.” Ironically, this comment was part of a com...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Nothing Wrong with Rote

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A popular view among educators is that rote learning is bad, bad, bad. Point out how well Asians do in international tests compared to Amer...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Slaying the Calculus Dragon

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No doubt about it. Many students consider calculus scary, right up there with monsters under the bed. Calculus is the Minotaur or St Georg...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

What do Employers Really Want from College Grads?

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The summer 2015 issue of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum featured an article summarizing a recent survey of 300 employers entitled “The Value of St...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Data-Driven Fallacy

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“Data- driven” sounds like a great way to make decisions. It even sounds scientific. What could possibly go wrong? When data drives de...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Preconceived Bias Always Trumps Critical Thinking

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In the last article, I discussed the strange phenomenon that whenever critical thinking and preconceived bias go head to head, dollars to do...
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