Education for the Aughts - Matthew K. Tabor
He covers primary and elementary education, middle school and junior high, secondary and high school education and college/graduate school. He also wri
Education for the Aughts - Matthew K. Tabor Recent Blog Posts
Two Million Minutes: The 21st Century Solution Debuts Thursday
on Sep 15, 2009 in Education News / Issues Nothing in media, let alone film, has captured so well how American schools are being outperformed as Bob Compton’s Two Million Minutes. The original 2MM showed how 6 high school students - two each from the US, India and China - spent their tw...
World Trade Center and Pentagon Terrorist Attacks, 2009 Update
on Sep 11, 2009 in Americana Education Media History, Government and Civics Education 9/11 a war for civilization brain-terminal crystal morning evan coyne maloney mark steyn pentagon-attack september-11 terrorist-attack world-trade-center-attack Last year we were winning 7-0; now it’s 8-0. I show no mercy - none - to the folks in education who say that NCLB, various teaching/administrative/reform initiatives, etc. inspire “terror” in children or that their practitioners are...
The Useless Education Media, Chapter #42,783: EdWeek Edition
on Sep 9, 2009 in Education Media Education News / Issues arlington independent school district district dossier ed week education week The education media is, as a whole, ineffective at educating the public. [Yes, there's a little bit of irony there.] Sometimes ed writers don’t know enough about a subject or practice to write a complete story. Sometimes they turn to tabloid-st...
Wanna Impress the Kids? Don’t Do Any of This.
on Aug 31, 2009 in Teaching School’s upon us - and so is the terrible professional advice doled out by ‘expert’ speakers and teachers that pocks the path to success like errant dog-doo in the park. John Thompson guest blogs [or blog-shares, or partner-blogs, I...
You Know, the Internet Does Professional Training, Too
on Aug 25, 2009 in Education News / Issues One of the most effective education-related facets of the internet is its ability to make available professional training/certifications. While blog after blog is discussing [in vain, usually] the merits of web/distance education vs. a traditional cl...
ACTA’s College Rankings and The New Duhploma
on Aug 25, 2009 in Education News / Issues ‘Tis the season - every year, same song. The US News college rankings pop up every August like Irving Berlin’s/Bing Crosby’s White Christmas does in early December. Not this year, thanks to the American Council of Trustees and Alumn...
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