Friday, January 31, 2014

the old university system is dead -- time for a professional university

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I once had lunch with a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. I asked him how it felt to be in charge of a fraudu...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

The top ten mistakes in education. Twenty years later.

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It has been 20 years since I wrote about the top ten mistakes in education. Although this list is on many places on the web, here is the o...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

The lost art of conversation -- or-- why thinking is on it's way out

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I was walking on the beach in Florida and thinking about how the young people I passed were not all on their cell phones (as seems usual w...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

Do Gifted Programs Improve Learning? (wow! really dumb question)

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This is the actual title of an actual article published in the The Atlantic. I am saying this in this way because the question itself i...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

OECD should stop pushing math in the name of reasoning and do its job

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As I write this I am at sea, both literally and figuratively. I was just getting away from it all for a week, but now as the week comes to ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Frank Bruni thinks kids are too coddled; I think kids are too tested; The Times fight for Common Core again

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It seems if you write for the NY Times you must about why Common Core is wonderful.  I don’t know why. Sunday Frank Bruni w...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

People are excited about or afraid of online education because…

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I learned something yesterday. (This is not an everyday experience at my age.) I met with a group of faculty from a u...
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