The argument goes something like this… The preponderance of female teachers in schools, particularly at the elementary school level, may very well have delet...

There is a dirty little lie that teachers tell and it is a complicated one. “I don’t play favorites in my classroom. All of my students are important to me a...

When we think about violence, it often looks 1) physical 2) taking place between a perpetrator and a victim and 3) worthy of intervention (prevention is alwa...

**By Bill Davidson Guest Blogger “I’m going to project two problems that I’d like you to solve on a piece of scrap paper,” I said, standing in front of a bla...

It is Fall of 1994 and I am in my second year of teaching and being the English department chair of a school with a unique structure and environment. The sch...

Students want you to know who they are as individuals and they desperately want to seamlessly meld into the crowd, unnoticed and left alone. This development...

Better schools won’t fix America and neither will Nick Hanauer’s assessment of the purposes and goals of education. I was recently sent an Atlantic Monthly a...

Guest Blogger: Dr. Jonathan Cassie Despite the often fevered rhetoric surrounding gaming, playing games and participating in game-based communities can and f...

Everyone is a giddy fan of someone.  Some people have Arianna Grande or Bono, some have Venus Williams or Lebron James.  Me? I have Barbara Wagner. For year...

Guest Blogger: Alisha Pedowitz I remember exactly when it was that I realized that my brain just isn’t wired for math: 10th grade Algebra 2 with Mrs. Martin....

For three years, Chris, a very thoughtful and committed science teacher, and I conducted an informal experiment during one of the most tense and stressful mo...

Seth Godin, the marketing guru and big-time thinker, talks about the DIP. He describes it in his popular podcast, Akimbo, as the end of the honeymoon. It c...

Guest Blogger: Leora Smith “Ms. Smith,” he queries, with widened eyes and a smirk, “how many points is this paragraph worth?” I slowly put down my whiteboard...

On Saturdays, Daphne walks. She does not do it alone. She has a group of friends who get on their working shoes and do their power walk. They do it not on...

Here’s what you should talk about when you talk to your daughters about math. 1) Tell them that hard work matters the most. No one is actually hard wired fo...

So let’s talk a little bit about the good news first. Imagine the American educational system in the 20th century was the envy of the rest of the world. Ev...