Catching up on some reading in the area of innovation and education one link led me to another and I came across Steve Ballmer 39 s recent email to Microsoft employees announcing quot a far-reaching realignment of the company that will enable us to innovate with greater speed efficiency and cap

Over the last few months as I 39 ve tracked the debates about the Common Core State Standards CCSS which I 39 ve written about here I 39 ve become intrigued not just by the wrangling over content but by the way the standards are spoken of or treated nbsp Whether people oppose or support th

quot All men quot said Aristotle in the Metaphysics quot desire by nature to know quot I think Aristotle is right and I see this confirmed almost every day with my own students It is confirmed everywhere in fact Our culture centers itself around the acquisition of knowledge on mastering b

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A couple weeks ago I wrote about the harrowing death of Rebecca Ann Sedwick Rebecca Ann was 12 years old She was in middle school And she became so distraught as a result of online cruelty she jumped from a platform at an abandoned cement plant nbsp Yesterday 39 s nbsp New York Times reports th

A former student of mine alerted me to an article published yesterday nbsp in The Chronicle of Higher Education with the enticing title quot Welcome Freshmen You Don 39 t Deserve to Be Here quot In the article Kevin Carey director of education-policy at the New America Foundation offers his