Category: Education

The Atlantic’s What’s Wrong With the American University System?
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/

Dennis Hopper reads Rudyard Kipling’s “If” on The Johnny Cash Show. http://youtu.be/xlfnm9gV52w

Interesting discussion about choice especially for schools that offer a student-centric education.

Facebook is a digital Harkness table. http://www.knowideainc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=105

James Schafer: 2010 Montgomery County (MD) Teacher of the Year
With their presentation finished Thursday and the questions from their fellow students answered, four Montgomery Blair High School thermodynamics students turned their nervous attention to their teacher, James Schafer, sitting silently, arms-folded on the side of the classroom.
“First slide please,” Schafer announced. A chorus of “oohs” [...]

TED – High School Math http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvKWEvKSi8&feature=player_embedded#!

While public schools are slowly making progress, they are so slow.  http://bit.ly/9QFAVt

All the Paintings in the MOMA in 2 Minutes  http://bit.ly/deEXye!

The Passover seder, when conducted correctly, is a great example of the effectiveness of a discussion-based teaching method. http://bit.ly/aCU9CD

Delaware and Tennesse won Pres. Obama’s education Race to the Top grants. $107M and $502M respectively. http://bit.ly/dpL8X1