Here is a very strange paradox. On the one hand, everyone agrees that a key ingredient for success in life is having great teachers. On the other, there’s a relentless narrative that education is somehow broken and that fixing it entails replacing teachers or transforming some or all of what they do.
Read MoreReview: Teaching Machines
There seems to be no end of attempts to improve education by people who have either never worked in it, or not understood what they were looking at.
Read MoreReview: Teaching Machines (for SchoolsWeek)
Here is a very strange paradox. On the one hand, everyone agrees that a key ingredient for success in life is having great teachers. On the other, there’s a relentless narrative that education is somehow broken and that fixing it entails replacing teachers or transforming some or all of what they do.
Read MoreOf COURSE classrooms have changed in the last few hundred years!
Is it really true that classrooms haven’t changed since the year 1600?
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2019 R.I.P, by Terry Freedman
New Year Puzzles: a coded message, the next decade in ed tech, and possible good news regarding government employees
If it takes someone at least three years to become a good teacher, what can a civil servant achieve in eighteen months?
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