I’m just about finished with my not-quite-at-the-last-minute prep for my trip to our annual state edtech conference, sponsored by the Virginia Society for Technology in Education.
The program starts on Monday but I’ll be headed to beautiful downtown Roanoke just before noon tomorrow, mainly so I don’t [...]
In a guest education column from the Post earlier this week, Daniel Willingham, billed as a cognitive scientist at UVa, makes a good, practical case for the arts being an essential part of K12 education.
He makes many excellent points but there are two that resonate the loudest.
Kagan argues that [...]
This is a pretty crappy example of the relationship between government and journalism.
Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy agreed to speak to students at a private high school in New York and then insisted that he be allowed to review the story written by the kids for the school newspaper [...]
Another interesting example of how attempting to filter information coming from the web doesn’t work all that well.
This situation has to do with a man who was convicted of murdering a well-known actor in Germany and is now out on parole, and who now wants Wikipedia to remove all [...]
Jay Mathews and a colleague at the Post are soliciting suggestions for their lists of the ten best education blogs of 2009.
I had the honor of being placed on Uncle Jay’s list of favorites last year, primarily due to my
frequent rants about the pseudo mathematics [...]
Back to the continuing budget mess here in the overly-large school district.
The superintendent and others have been holding meetings with employee groups and community members (and distributing poorly worded surveys) to get suggestions on what programs and people should be cut to make things balance financially.
However, he’s asking the wrong [...]
Since EduCon 2.2 proposals were due today, of course I submitted mine just a few hours ago. Nothing new… I usually do my other homework assignments at the last minute as well. :-)
EduCon is something unique among the many education-related conferences out there.
Sessions don’t involved being lectured at or [...]
