For its 40th Anniversary, Smithsonian Magazine just published “40 Things You Need to Know About the Next Forty Years†If you think about education you have to think about the future.  How can we best…
Students want online learning because it makes learning more personal, gives them control over their learning, and allows them to go at their own pace! The Center for Digital Education posted a short article “Why…
I don’t just think about education because among other things, I am an economics and business teacher.  I teach. I was reading the Preface of Common Sense Economics (Revised and Updated) by Gwartney, Stroup, et…
Tomorrow we celebrate the Fourth of July.  On July 4, 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which begins with this important words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are…
In 1983, American President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education issued its report A Nation at Risk.  Secretary of Education T. H. Bell created the National Commission “directing it to examine the quality…
A 10-day Business Seminar Field Trip and an Ed Week article got me worked up on the subject of ethics – again! Â I started this blog, set is aside for a while to see if…
I just read a great commentary in Education Week by Ryan McLane (the principal at Utica Junior High School in Utica, Ohio) that I want everyone to read. Â I couldn’t have said it better myself,…
Just read a great article Four years later, a district’s standards-based reform evolves and pays off which tells a great story that I want to share.  The story by EdNEws Colorado begins: “In 2009, a…
I just read an Education Week article with the headline High School Redesign Gets Presidential Lift.   It cites President Obama’s February 12 State of the Union Speech in which he said  “[t]onight, I’m announcing a…
This just in! Â The US Dept of Ed just issued a press release “Education Department Releases Guidance on Providing Title IV Eligibility for Competency-Based Learned Programs”. The news is that colleges “that offer competency-based programs…