Viewpoints

It’s almost five o’clock on this Friday and I’m about to finish chatting with the School Board chair. One more meeting after this, one more event after that, and I will be ready to go home. The Board chair and I have had a long season of fighting fun...Read More

I just finished reading the Drool Room by Ira Socol. We learn differently. I read fast. Ira writes slow. It took me about 2 hours to finish his book. It took him seven years to write it. His book covers a lot of ground; from his earliest memories of ...Read More

This past weekend, i-Magicators from across the country gathered in Philadelphia to engage at EduCon2.2. Not everyone could be there, but anyone with an Internet connection, and time, could participate. I was one of the latter. In the living room, ki...Read More

We lament the need for more educational innovators in our schools.  We write about the characteristics of innovators, our value for models of innovation and the game-changing potential of entrepreneurs’ impact on education.  But we already have innov...Read More

11 Reasons I am Thankful for Public Education in the United States 1.       In the People’s Republic of China, the decision was made in 2007 to fund nine years of compulsory public education for the 80% of young people who live in rural poverty and ...Read More