Scientific Artistry

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Teach to the Test or Help Children Deeply Understand the Concepts? Which Matters?

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So often as a society we forget how fantastic our people in the classroom are. It's not that we don't think highly of them, we do. I...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

The Asterisk, Lowering the Mound, & The 100 Free: What Education & Government Need to Learn From Sports

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In the summer of 1990, while I was looking at colleges, the Detroit Tigers had a pudgy first baseman who was hitting the ball over the fence...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Defensible Position: How School Districts Made Good Teachers Become Betty Crocker

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Somewhere along the line, we became afraid of the parents. Maybe it happened after A Nation at Risk, maybe it was before. I was too young at...
Saturday, September 7, 2013

Engage Me

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In the United States, our children enter school at 5 years and spend 12 years of full day education and 1 year of half day education.    1...
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Our Nation at Risk

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In 1983 a report was released. A Nation at Risk ,  the results of an 18 member Reagan-era investigation warning that if we as a nation didn...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

The Stonecutter's Dilemma - Assumptions of Linearity

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There I sat with all of the parents staring at their six and seven year old children. The same place I sat for the past two years with this ...
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Sticky Lessons

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In schools, we are asked to "teach" a lot. There is Reading, Math, Social Studies, Science, Health, and Social-Emotional Learning ...
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