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Parents should be telling their sons: “Work hard so you can go to college. Not only will you make more money, but it’s your best chance to get laid.”

The U.S. spends much more per student than any other country. Yet from the very beginning, American students have generally performed below average compared to other rich countries.

My latest roundup of links and tools… America is not competitive A majority of Fortune 1000 executives surveyed give the American pre-college system a failing grade. As Andrew Trotter reports […]

News Yemen is now reporting that al-Watani editor, ‘Abd al-Raqib al-Hadayani, has been released although more than 40 people are still in custody after today’s events in al-Dhala’. Naba News, […]

[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today I am […]

True intimacy would be far more profound if we were all connected to each other by the Internet.

A cognitive scientist friend of mine made a good point the other day about Amy Chua’s assertion that “nothing is fun until you’re good at it.” It is, he said […]

Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in serving on the CASTLE Advisory Board. We had many, many more applicants than we possibly could take. Although having too many people […]

Notes from the 2007 SETDA Education Forum… What it takes to compete: Seeing U.S. education through the prism of international comparisons Prof. Andreas SchleicherHead, Indicators and Analysis DivisionOECD Directorate for […]

The question of using genetic enhancement to raise test scores may seem like a bad joke—or science fiction. But U.S. policymakers and families, may need to start asking themselves if they can “win the future” without it.

As the year draws to a close, it’s time again to take a look back at some videos that really struck a chord with our audience this year.  A glance […]

Shanghai, China, trounced the competition in an international test of 15-year-olds’ skills in math, science, and reading. So what makes the Shanghai students special?

Last summer I described how psychologists at Rutgers closed the usual gap between higher boys’ and lower girls’ scores on high-school chemistry tests. When the students used a textbook whose […]

There are only so much bagels and coffee to go around. Most of the staff will have their pickings from the muffins (usually gone by the 50th staff member), and […]

I saw this story in Arabic yesterday, and today the BBC has it, saying that Jabir al-Fayfi the surrendered or captured al-Qaeda member (either way he is in Saudi custody) […]

This is not an advertisement for The Education Trust, nor is it an endorsement of all that The Education Trust stands for.  This post is merely my commentary on one […]

Last year, we (Justin Medved and Dennis Harter) sat down to tackle the big question, “How does an information and technology curriculum stay relevant and meaningful in the 21st Century.”  […]

With China in position to overtake the US as the world’s number one economy by 2020, keeping America inventive and productive has never been more important. 

Recently, I had the rare opportunity to be on both The Colbert Report and the Conan show. As you can imagine, we had a madcap, hilarious romp through time travel, […]

When Scott first invited me to contribute a post in response to “What Does Every Administrator Need from Teachers” I immediately thought about the “Seven Gifts of El Milagro” that […]

The parenting price tag has soared to about $220,000 per child. Forget Christmas lists, there’s no end in sight to the add-ons Americans can think of in the cultivation of kids.

The Guardian’s Matt Parker will introduce seven of mathematics’ most intractable problems. To win a million dollars, all you have to do is solve one.

[This is Post 2 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]

One could hardly call me a conspiracy theorist;  I don’t put much stock in Area 51 theories, alternate possibilities of the JFK assassination, or any such popular underground thoughts.  But […]

“Why aren’t there more women math professors? Or engineering professors, or physics professors, or professors of computer science or economics?” Is motherhood be to blame?

SETI’s search for extraterrestrial life has failed for decades. A likely reason might be they are looking for aliens who look like your neighbors at twilight.

More news coming out of Yemen about the bomber’s id. Faysal Mukrim in al-Hayat, reports what News Yemen had yesterday, although his math is off by about a decade. But […]

At birth, children’s brains are prepared to learn from social agents—other members in a group. New research suggests this “social brain” helps a person learn over a lifetime.

As a school law instructor and tenured associate professor of educational leadership, I perhaps have a different view of tenure than most P-12 teachers. As we look to what the […]

Here are my notes from Dr. Yong Zhao’s presentation, Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization, at the 2009 School Administrators of Iowa (SAI) conference… […]