Rewriting Paradigms

If we could really step back and apply the principles of backward planning, we may not need to be talking about grit at the...

What do you think our greatest improvements have been in the educational sector in the past couple of years? Has it been the number of...

In my last post, I asked people to “Imagine a School without Teachers” in order to examine some of the current challenges to the...

Last week, we learned that the New York City Department of Education will be lifting its long-time ban on cell phones in the schools....

At the close of 2014, Designs2Learn shared memories of early learning: the rituals of school, learning journeys, learning how to fail,...

I’m thrilled to participate in this week’s “An Hour of Code,” that is taking place as part of the annual “Computer Science Education...

Prepare Your Audience We know that many of the traits associated with entrepreneurship are characteristics shared by the vast majority of...

In my previous blog, This is a School that Johnny Wants to Attend, I wrote about Johnny’s new school, an environment designed to optimize...

“Welcome to 13th Grade,” reports on an Oregon initiative to add a 13th year to the high school experience in order to help better prepare...

The two students at the heart of this story are sisters, raised in moderate circumstances in one of the richest cities in the world....