School Leaders: Don't Let Your Teachers Lose Heart

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I lined up to board a plane in Seattle when a security agent reached for my husband's ticket and read it. She said, "Barnoski?" Then she swiveled her head, finding me as her…

3 Reasons to Like the New Science Standards

New K-12 science learning standards are set to be released to the nation this week with great expectations. This is reason for both…

Rushing Toward the Wrong School Achievement Policy

Principal warns parents: ‘Don’t buy the bunk’ about new Common Core tests

Rethinking Schooling for the New Information Era

(Originally titled “Students First, Not Stuff”)

In this lead article in Educational Leadership, author/speaker Will Richardson says the Web has upended our long-standing belief that school is where students learn the most important stuff. Now it’s one of many sources of information – and often not the most compelling. “Welcome to what portends to be the messiest, most…

Should Schools Teach About Love?

In this Harvard Education Letter article, Richard Weissbourd and Rebecca Givens Rolland (Harvard Graduate School of Education) say that schools need to do a better job preparing young people for adult love relationships. “Widespread failure in romantic love – divorce (which ends nearly half of all first marriages), constant marital conflict, and quieter marital misery or the inability to even form a…

Why Common Core tests won’t be what Arne Duncan promised

Bill Gates: A fairer way to evaluate teachers…

 Handling Seven Interpersonal Challenges with Skill and Grace

In this article in Psychology Today, Mary Loftus says that “it is one of the operating principles of social psychology that even the most minute encounters can have large effects on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors… If there is a unifying theme to the findings, it is that the most successful encounters accommodate, even anticipate, the respondent’s point of view. That is, if we…

Have you seen the commercial on TV that offers consumers a service where contractors and companies are reviewed using a data base to give people a better chance at obtaining satisfaction with their purchase?  The thought of how this may or may not be relevant to education came to me as I considered posting a review of the work recently done on the gutters of my house.  Here I thought, wouldn’t it be useful to alert…