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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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Can You Teach the Bible in Public Schools?

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The short answer is yes, you can and should teach the Bible in public schools. The long answer is more nuanced. There are three subjects...
Monday, September 26, 2016

California Proposition 58: A Solution Looking for a Non-existent Problem

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In 1998, it was Hispanic parents who clamored to get rid of bilingual education. Bilingual education was not a bridge but a jail. Hispanic...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

This is What's Wrong with Tech Articles

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GreatSchools has an article about evaluating the effectiveness of technology in your child's school. Just like most such articles, it ...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Wrongness

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The topic of being wrong pops up more and more frequently in public discourse these days. Author Chuck Klosterman, maintains we are probably...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Missing Key to Understanding Place Value

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I write a lot about place value. Place value (along with zero) may arguably be the most important math concept because it underlies every s...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Zero is a Real Number

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Zero is a real number. Could such a headline possibly be click bait? If so, it is pretty lame. Of course everyone knows zero belongs to...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Is Division Repeated Addition?

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One of Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin's pet peeves is the common “division is repeated addition” meme . He despises it so much h...
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