Posted in Research on Mar 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Next live-blogging event will be from 5:15-6:15: “Eight Strategies for Using Humor to Improve Learning”. Please join us!
The event below was hosted by Spence Rogers of Peak Learning Systems. Some of the exhibitor’s sessions are like long infomercials: this one was excellent, full of quality content and take-away ideas.
ASCD: “Teaching Strategies That Reach Challenging [...]
Posted in Research on Mar 14th, 2009 No Comments »
It has to be a special occasion for me to be coherent, much less posting a blog entry, at 8:00 on a Saturday morning. And special it is. I’m at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s annual conference in Orlando. It’s much more interesting than it sounds.
I am honored to be covering the [...]
Posted in Policy, Research on Mar 7th, 2009 No Comments »
These two words are not typically seen as positive. However, as Geoffrey Canada uses them, in regards to his Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), they are quite hopeful.
The book about his work, Whatever It Takes, by Paul Tough has gotten a lot of press in a range of places. (I’ll link to some at the [...]
Posted in Policy, Research, Theory on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
In my first post in this series on poverty and education, I introduced this work by economist Charles Karelis, Economist’s View: Is Poverty Caused by Irrational Behavior? which got to an underlying truth, that when you are poor, you may not be capable of making “rational” choices, because you have too many problems to deal [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Dec 31st, 2008 32 Comments »
Dangerously Irrelevant: Beware outside consultants? – Part 2, Ruby Payne started a whole slew of arguments about poverty. Can education “fix” poverty? Can eduction be effective without addressing the underlying poverty of the poor? There were a lot of assumptions, especially among those with a deficit view, that I’ll sum up as “poor folks, have [...]
