Dancing into the Apocalypse
I'm writing this now so that I can read it to myself when the first day of school rolls around. Sometimes you have to be your own motivational speaker at the start of the new year.Why the World of Public Education Has Never Been Worse, and Why I'm Excited To Be a Teacher AnywayHow Bad Is It? It is almost breathtaking to step back and try to take in the wide array of forces lined up against the gre
Whole Brain Teaching
I had put this out of my whole brain until Diane Ravitch posted a clip this morning from Nashville Prep. Here's the clip:This looks to be an application of Whole Brain Teaching, sometimes called Power Teaching, a techniques that seems to be the brain child of Chris Biffle Biffle is no slacker; he's published an assortment of books with legit publishers, and his Whole Brain empire boasts a pretty w
6-21-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION:Curmudgucation WeekUPenn Offers Degree in Soulless ProfiteeringThe University of Pennsylvania has decided that the only thing the world needs more than educational profiteers looking to make a buck in the ed biz is educational profiteers with a Masters degree.At EdTech Times, Michelle Harven reports, "Education and entrepreneurship is the modern match, and the evidence of a new