This Week In Education: Thompson: Slow Down and Teach for Understanding

This Week In Education: Thompson: Slow Down and Teach for Understanding

Thompson: Slow Down and Teach for Understanding

The recent NYT story about the spread of "Singapore Math" explains why its slower pacing gives students the foundation for building complex skills, and provides a corrective to the "in one ear and out of the other" dynamic that has been the achilles heel of America's test-driven schooling. My secondary school experience also says that we need to slo

Quote: Union Superpowers Fading * [image: Quotes2] The teachers unions continue to wield enough power to deny choices to these students, but their days as political supermen are numbered. *-- WSJ editorial page

Video Interlude: The Levitating Frog NPR tells me that the guy who won the Nobel prize for physics this year is the same guy who won an Ignoble prize in 2004 for a classroom demonstration showing a frog being levitated by magnets (the video of which you will now watch despite all the ...