Coloring books for adults are apparently a big new craze. Amazon's #1 bestseller in stress management/ self-help is a coloring…
There’s solid evidence that American students do well when they are encouraged to think for themselves and expected to collaborate…
The latest Program for International Assessment (Pisa) results are out and that means another round of handwringing, lamentation, self-flagellation, finger…
Did you see the film Race to Nowhere? The film challenged the obsession with competition and evaluation in our education…
...and we'll make winners out of them" There's a good article in the latest edition of Independent School magazine that…
As always, lots of good stuff in the latest edition of Independent School, the quarterly magazine from NAIS. And those…
In a recent post at Raining Acorns, a Pennsylvania parent records what happens in March school testing season. She outlines…
The NYSAIS heads conference is always valuable and 2010 was no exception. I usually hear NAIS president Pat Bassett in…
We need a broader vision of success. We believe that real success results from attention to the basic developmental needs…
It was Dean Kamen - the inventor of the Segway and a version of the artificial heart - who established…
There's a slow food movement so why not a slow mind movement? Some years ago Guy Claxton wrote Hare Brain,…