Even Budget Cuts Can’t Prevent Stupid Field Trips!
Thanks to NY Teacher for the blog, Field Trips – Good and Bad. The blog reminds us how educational (and cost-effective) field trips can be …
Category: education policy
The Worst Book of the 21st Century (an updated review)
What should an educator do after they watch Daniel Pink’s deeply flawed PowerPoint presentation? How will a member of the audience become a better educator as a result of his keynote address? Why is he invited to speak to educators at all?
The $100 Laptop in Vanity Fair & a Colombian School
Vanity Fair writer and widow of Tom Russert, Maureen Orth, wrote a charming article about a small school she built in the Colombian Andes while …
Care to Really Understand Federal Education Policy?
In my humble opinion, Jo Boaler‘s, recent Education Week column, Where Has All the Knowledge Gone? The Movement to Keep Americans at the Bottom of …
My New Favorist Essayist Speaks the Truth About School
Over the past six months I’ve discovered the BBC television phenomena, Top Gear. I first heard about it when Jay Leno publicly criticized NBC‘s desire …
Hey, Look at How all that Rah-Rah Paid Off!
For the past month or so, I’ve been the big old meanie who could love the messenger, but hate the shallow superficial condescending message of …
The Seattle Post Intelligencer Web Site Excerpted my GOOD Magazine article
Read it here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/chalkboard/archives/150412.asp Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author …
You Must Rethink “Tech Standards”
In 2004, I had the great privilege of being hired to consult and lead professional development in India. One of the highlights of the trip …
If you Enjoy NCLB, You’ll Love what McCain/Palin have Planned for Schools
Mission Accomplished! Although much of what recently elected and newly minted Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin says in her education plan for Alaska reads like …
Florida District without TV, Newspapers, the Constitution or Common Sense
Hey, check it out! There is a school district in Florida that has no apparent connection to the past century or common decency. It’s like …