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Goodbye to all that

The first day of my new life as an idle good-for-nothing superannuated coffin-dodger (my brother's description of retirees) coincides with…

8 years ago

The Barrage Lifts

After forty five years it's time to re-wire! And the start of my re-wirement coincides with the centenary of the…

8 years ago

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: We Stand On The Brink

The summer 2013 issue of Independent School magazine was about technology and schools and posed the  question The Great Disruption?…

8 years ago

The Magic Roundabout of Education and Innovation: How should schools prepare for the future?

What does innovation in education look like to you? This question and What does innovation in education look like around…

8 years ago

Be a Good Person: Get Admitted to College

Be a good person: Get into college. Well - it's not quite a simple as that but it is true…

8 years ago

Light Blue Touch-Paper

Growing up in the UK in a certain era meant that you got to play with fireworks. I have no…

8 years ago

White Smoke! The future is announced

Last fall I informed the president of the board of trustees that 2015-16 would be my last year at Poughkeepsie…

8 years ago

Learning and Social Media: Option, Opportunity and Obligation

If you're reading this online then you are engaged in social media. You are consuming. I've been thinking about education…

9 years ago

The End of Expertise

Here's a interestingly provocative article for all of us in education. How Much Do we Need to Know? by Peter…

9 years ago

The mindset for change: Don’t trust your judgment

We live in a whirled world of change: we're overloaded, stressed out, with limited resources and endless possibilities. We're already…

9 years ago

The Finns Are At It Again: Redesigning Education

Not content with sweeping the international testing stakes Finland is setting about radical school design and reform - again. And given…

9 years ago

The Night Mail

This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters…

9 years ago

Modern Learning and the Shock of the New

Here's something terrific for free: It's an E-book of great articles from the always useful Educating Modern Learners, an online…

9 years ago

The Future of Employment: Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up; rather ask what problem they want to solve

Don't ask kids what they want to be when they grow up; rather ask what problem they want to solve.…

10 years ago