California case challenges teacher tenure
This one’s a doozy. I predict that traditional policies of teacher tenure in California will come to an end in the next few weeks after the decision in V...
Category: issues in education
Students do not have very much homework
Homework is likely the most popular and most controversial educational topic out there. Maybe that’s because parents feel they have to force their kids t...
The Apartheid of Children’s Literature
Laura, my friend and sustaining donor of the Kindle Classroom Project, sent me a New York Times op-ed this morning that decried the lack of people of color in ...
Book Review: The Smartest Kids in the World, by Amanda Ripley (★★☆☆☆)
Amanda Ripley knows how to write extremely well. In The Smartest Kids in the World, Ms. Ripley follows three American exchange students as they study in Finlan...
Why David Coleman is the most powerful educator in the country right now
Everyone says Arne Duncan is powerful, but if you really want to know who calls the shots about education in this country, it’s David Coleman. Mr. Colema...