"Thinking of education in terms of planting seeds invites me to pray for a saintly kind of patience."

quot Warily Schools Watch Students on the Internet quot So reads a headline in the New York Times today on a matter that 39 s now dominating the news and this blog nbsp The article written by Somini Sengupta nicely summarizes various points of concern arising from the interaction s of schoo

October brings the World Series and Halloween and for teachers it rsquo s that mid-semester point when we accept that our school year will not go as planned The syllabus has gone through a couple revisions the course calendar has been reworked and we start to hear the footprints of December rsq

As readers of this blog know I 39 ve addressed some of the ways that students are harming themselves and others through the destructive use of Facebook Twitter and other forms of social media These same concerns were the subject of a controversial op-ed in yesterday 39 s Wall Street Journal Th

Last week while discussing the Common Core State Standards CCSS I wrote that whether quot people oppose or support the CCSS conversations reflect the same assumptions that mark most proposals for education reform The implicit idea seems to be nbsp that if we just had a certain program or idea

The latest post from Matt Emerson at our new blog, 'The Ignatian Educator'