Education, RattleBag and Rhubarb

Enough with all the grigor

Grant Lichtman has just suggested a  bunch of words better than grit  And they all work. And now it’s time to take on the rigor.  Grit and rigor – sounds like a scouring powder or bathroom cleanser  rather than a prescription for learning. Take a look at these definitions and then consider why on earth people would want to associate it…

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Education, RattleBag and Rhubarb

The Perils of EdSpeak: Play in Danger

As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play.  My chief concern being that the word play – like the word progressive – is itself so plastic and open to so many interpretations that defining it is like holding water in your hand: However hard you try to hang on it dribbles…

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