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Holiday Gift Ideas for the Makers & Tinkerers in Your Life

November 22, 2012December 31, 2012

Treat yourself or the other makers in your life to these incredible new (or old favorite) materials and sources of inspiration for future learning adventures. …

Au Contraire?

November 19, 2012January 2, 20166

I often explain to graduate students that I don’t play devil’s advocate or any other clever games. Just because I may say something unsaid by …

Accountability?

November 3, 2012November 3, 20127

I’m a curious guy who wonders a lot about the forces and rhetoric influencing education. At the risk of kicking a hornet’s nest and incurring …

Time for a Tactical Shift

October 31, 2012November 13, 20124

Dear colleagues and friends of progressive education, It is time for us to stop arguing against high-stakes testing. Americans LOVE the idea of high-stakes as …

Dr. Stager’s Prescription for Improving S.T.E.M.

October 31, 2012November 13, 20124

The first step in improving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) in our classrooms is to find evidence of its existence. S.T.E.M. currently suffers from …

Sometimes a blog comment needs to be a post of its own

August 29, 2012September 1, 20122

Will Richardson wrote a nice blog post, “The Thin Value of Proposition,” in which he argues that the true value in education is the relationship …

Dear Chris and Will

August 29, 2012September 1, 20123

First, my good friend Chris Lehmann wrote about in “Why I Am Against For Profit Schools,” how the school privatization movement (and I would add …

Confronting a Cliché

June 28, 2012June 28, 201216

Just returned home from speaking at another large international conference where meaningless clichés filled the air and rolled off of people’s tongues. Aside from being …