On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…
Is this what we mean by that current refrain "Whatever it takes"? This is from another era - 1991. Anything…
There's another of those scary science stories in today's NYTimes: Split Outcome in Texas Battle in Teaching Evolution. The real…
PDS marked the inauguration at its Peacemakers Assembly on Tuesday. Entitled "Stony the road we trod" the event began with…
More about our assembly later but here is a screenshot from the NYTimes website. The middle school Photo Journalism class…
Teachers often take a jaundiced eye to films that claim to depict the classroom experience. It’s akin to being skeptical…
In his talk yesterday, Bruce Judson made reference to the first 100 days of the Roosevelt administration. As now, there…
On the way home tonight I heard Robert Reich on NPR’s Marketplace. The topic was Human Capital. The one sentence…
Thank you for bringing John Palfrey to the school last night. He was fabulous, and he spoke directly to issues…
The next president needs to be multi-dimensional, addressing issues that extend far beyond the classroom, but which are critically connected…
More humor. This time from Fast Company magazine where Tom Stern wonders whether the over achievement of some adults has…
"You don't make a hog fatter by weighing it." Everyone went to school and that makes everyone an expert on…
Last night in his State of the Union address President Bush outlined proposals to extend the NCLB (“No Child Left…
The one thing about which all educators are in agreement is that yesterday's education no longer suffices for today. The…