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Teachers: Impossible Expectations

Guest post: "Teachers cannot be essential and irrelevant at the same time." Read more

Parents & the homework blues. Forget the flash cards . . .

"Be There. . . .Let's not forget the emotional connection between teacher and student." David Brooks and "The Social Animal." Read more

"Who Says You Can't Replicate Another School's Success?"

High Tech High Comes to Dalton GA Read more

If you have to spy on students, your new digital school program isn't working

The principal illustrated how she could monitor every student's screen during class. In fact, she "caught" one student playing a video game, and sent a note directly to him digitally. Read more

What Do They Know? They're Just Students . . .

Dr. Alec Couros Says He's An Educator, But Has His "Open Doctrine" Gone Too Far? Video - Humor Read more

How to Learn

"If we continue to look at education as if it's about coming to school to get the information and not about experiential learning, empowering student voice and embracing failure we are missing the mark . . . ." - Diana Laufenberg Read more

What Skateboarding Can Teach Us About Learning

Dramatic Video "School Sucks" : Building a Better Learning Culture Read more

CLASS!!!

by Velorazzo  Flickr... Read more

While I was Procrastinating. . .

The 20-something Seth Godin? Video Version. "While I was procrastinating . . ." Read more

Colbert takes on Renaissance man, James Franco

"Is his brain like a shark, and will die if he stops learning?" Read more

Obama on Being a Dad to Two Teen Girls

Some things he won't have to worry about right now . . . Read more

College: another institution to be wary of?

"Since when have colleges become so controversial? They used to embody humankind at its most elevated; now, they're just another institution to be wary of." Read more