Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?
Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.
learning
State of the Union: The Case Behind Obama’s Call for National Pre-K
The science and economics behind #POTUS #SOTU call for National #PREK – @ezraklein analysis and #COTC resources
Research: Investigating the Literacy – Mental Health Relationship
Research: mental health effects of feeling chronically improficient in the skill areas most important to success in school
Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter
“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.
When Learning Hurts – Toxic Learning
What and how students learn can have toxic effects on how well they learn thereafter. It’s vitally important that educators understand this.
Our government is what our population has learned it to be.
Our national political conversation is devoid of even mentioning the central issue that, within two decades, will most determine our nation’s fate: our most distinctive competency – our only long term competitive advantage – our collective intelligence.
Re: Microsoft’s ‘National Talent Strategy’ & “Race to the Future’ = Greater Investment in STEM.
I am all for STEM but I think we’d have a greater net number of STEMers if we focused our main efforts on getting more kids READY to learn their way into STEM.
Obama vs. Romney, The Great Debate: The Mission of Education in 21st Century America
How a president envisions the role of education in shaping the future of America is a telling indicator of his or her core beliefs, philosophies, economic theories, values, morals, and ethics.
Is Inequality A Matter of Choice?
The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of the basis of our judgements about them. After all, if we believe that ‘success’ is the product of individual choice then so to is ‘failure’.
IQ Learning
Working Memory: IQ is not fixed. For better and worse, learning changes IQ. Because intelligence both shapes and is shaped by learning our conversation about the plasticity of IQ is another case in point for: “I” become the “me” I learn to be.