Everything I Know About NCLB (now RTTT) I Learned from Primetime Live
In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist began a series of studies “intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who …
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If You Really Want to Honor Dr. King…
Author’s note – Monday, January 21, 2008. I originally published this in The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate in January 2007, but alas it is …
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Integrated Learning Systems, The New Slavery (1992)
Read this incendiary article I wrote for circulation among my friends back in 1992. I didn’t write as well then and lacked a filter for …
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An Honor to Be Nominated
Wow! I am a finalist to be a keynote speaker at this June’s International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE) in Denver. This is …
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Two New Keynote Topics for 2010
Twenty Lessons from Twenty Years of 1:1 Computing The presenter has led 1:1 implementations around the world since working with the first two “laptop schools” …
Halt the Testing Madness (2003)
Before accepting over-testing as inevitable, try debating the issue with parents and students Our schools are in the midst of a mass panic not seen …
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Enrichment Programs – The winners win more at the expense of their classmates
One could hardly disagree that recent generations have experienced increasingly mechanized school practices. Issues impacting school administrators such as data-driven decision-making and management theories, borrowed …
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Hate to Say It, but “I Told You So!” (part 2)
On December 17, 2008 – one month before Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, I expressed my fear about …
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My DEN Webinar Recording is Now Online
Several weeks ago, I enjoyed the great privilege of leading a webinar for the Discovery Educator Network. Despite some technical hiccups and mortal fear that …
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Which does not belong? (hint: all of the above)
As Arne Duncan and other unthinking vertebrates get aroused by the notion of common core standards, the rest of us should look at how stoobid …