February 27, 2015
An op-ed piece by Daniel Willingham offers an interesting look at a bit of “conventional wisdom” that states, human beings are losing the ability to focus and concentrate due to constant stimulation from our electronic devices. Read More…
February 27, 2015
Balefire, the website that reviews educational apps, has a concise summary of the review criteria they employ to evaluate the impact of applications and why they are included in their evaluation process. Read More…
February 26, 2015
Each year the American Educational Research Association (AERA) publishes its 10 most-read articles. Seven of the studies hold special interest for the design of education systems. This year’s list includes these papers of special interest: Read More…
January 30, 2015
Balefire, a web site that reviews educational apps is transitioning to a free model so that interested teachers and parents can access all reviews free of charge. The free model will launch the first week of February. Read More…
January 15, 2015
An opinion piece by Robert Slavin, Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, examines issues of school turnaround. In this article Slavin offers a metaphor for three types of school readiness for reform, seeds, bricks, and sand. He describes seed schools as those Read More…
December 19, 2014
In this paper, Addison makes the argument that performance architecture is a framework that allows someone to assess all features of an organization so that the parts of the system can be aligned to support an innovation. Read More…
December 18, 2014
This paper considers issues confronted by National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) upon publishing their second edition of Teacher Prep Review, a comprehensive evaluation of programs that train new teachers. Read More…
December 18, 2014
Hans Rosling, a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker, has a particular talent for presenting data in a way that effectively tells a story that links critical issues in economic development, agriculture, poverty, Read More…
December 16, 2014
The School Leaders Network has released a new report exploring the costs of principal turnover. Read More…
December 15, 2014
In a recent article in The New Yorker, James Surowiecki makes the argument that high performance coaching for athletes and classical musicians has become the standard for these professions and posits that it should be for educators as well. His position is that coaching is the best way to assure that teachers know the right things to do and continue to do them.
Surowiecki, J. (Nov. 10, 2014) Better all the time. The New Yorker.