In Yemen, Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks about Iran’s influence in Yemen sound as crazy as President Salih’s remarks about a secret room in Tel Aviv controlled by the US sounded to Americans.
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Spring has sprung in here in New York City, stripping off our layers of winter clothes. The eye falls with pleasure on a pair of pretty feminine legs in a […]
Spring has sprung in here in New York City, stripping off our layers of winter clothes. The eye falls with pleasure on a pair of pretty feminine legs in a […]
I was honored when Scott asked for my contribution to this series of posts on what teacher want from an administrator. It just so happens I have a thought or […]
Image by opensourceway This summer I have been conducting an experiment. Rather, I have been engaged in a personal project. I call it Twitter Book Club. Twitter Book Club is […]
Here are the rest of my notes from ISTE’s annual digital equity summit at NECC… Discussions Wyatt Sledge, Forth Worth (TX) ISD, told me that the district just hired a […]
What a long strange trip it’s been for U.S. automakers Ford and GM. After a recent multi-year stretch in which their names were synonymous with “cars we don’t want to […]
Ronald Reagan would have been 100 on February 6. If they had a cure for Alzheimer’s, you know he would have made it. Health-obsessed Americans today (disproportionally sophisticated liberals) should at least look to Reagan for longevity tips.
This week I’d like to award the crimson megaphone to Candace Shively, who blogs over at Think Like a Teacher. I’m a big fan of Candace’s writing style and wish […]
Many folks are concerned that schools today are mostly about churningnout worker bees for uncaring corporations who are more than happy to chew upnemployees and spit them out in favor […]
It’s not “OK” for us to simply abstain from teaching kids to think simply based on the fact that we have to administer a test at the end of the […]
[cross-posted at E-Learning Journeys] Change is a process in a school. Change is neither good nor bad but just is. Rapid change can cause discomfort and upset. No change can […]
[I’m going to state up front that I’m just thinking out loud here. Some of you are not going to like that I even dared to ask this.] Diane Ravitch: eminent educational […]
First I’d like to say thanks to Scott McLeod for the opportunity to write a post for Dangerously Irrelevant. The topic of student collaboration is one that has been bouncing […]
Yesterday we (Justin Medved and Dennis Harter) spoke about our efforts to broaden the conversation that we had been having within our department with our wider school and the leaders […]
Around 2012, the sun’s magnetic cycle will reach its peak, increasing the chances of massive magnetic storms that could wipe out the satellites that govern GPS, television streams, and even the Internet.
A few years back I did a nationwide study of district technology coordinators for NCREL, with help from CoSN and QED. Although our response rates were much lower than we […]
When Scott asked me to contribute a post in answer to the question, “what do administrators need from teachers?” I was happy to comply. As superintendent of schools, I spend […]
Interesting conversations are occurring, well-known edubloggers are advocating for their topic suggestions (see, e.g., Vicki Davis and Brian Crosby), and, perhaps most importantly for ISTE, there seems to be a fair […]
One of the unavoidable realities of going to look at art in a museum is the feeling that you the viewer are being viewed yourself—especially by your fellow patrons. In […]
[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this […]
A friendly, but unequivocal rebuttal by the authors of a recent policy paper on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to Gregory Johnsen’s critique of their suggested counterterrorism measures.
This week the World Trade Organization meets to revive the Doha Development Round of talks. Economist Daniel Altman explains why little will be gained—and why that isn’t such bad news.
I have learned much about data-driven decision making (DDDM) from Dr. Scott McLeod. He is an acknowledged authority on DDDM and is especially knowledgeable about frequent formative assessment. My own […]
The best portraits look as if the subject could step right out of the frame and walk among us, maybe even sign an autograph or two. Recently, something like that […]
Here’s a not-so-secret tidbit for you… If you think states and school districts are doing a poor job of preparing administrators to lead in this digital century, university educational administration […]
My colleague, Dr. John Nash, sent me two messages recently that I think are worth some attention. Like John, I agree that university educational leadership programs need to wake up […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Chart 1: A discrepancy of beliefs n Here is a chart of some findings from the recently-released Speak Up 2007 surveys of nearly 368,000 […]
Educators today are expected to integrate the collection and analysis of student learning data into their ongoing instructional and organizational practice. Yet if you walked into almost any school in […]
My goal for June: 30 days, 30 book reviews. This post is a review of Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling by Rick Hess. My short recommendation? I […]