Chances are you are already using technology at your lessons. Nevertheless, very few of us, educators, turn to educational apps that by now are presented in a wide variety. For those, who are interested in applying new technology into education, below is a list of top apps for teachers and parents you haven’t been using but should.

Myhomeworkapp. The app is perfect for those wishing to control and track the progress of students remotely. Teachers can leave comments and…

The Opt-Out Movement Is Gaining Momentum

• Ed Week

While addressing a group of state schools superintendents in 2013, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described…

Excellence Should Not Be Isolated…

There have been a plethora of talented researchers who have presented us with new ways to teach, to offer students new opportunities to learn and to perform their learning. And there are districts, schools, and classrooms that have tried mightily to embed the new theories and methods into their centuries old structures.  But the national results have not changed. Cities continue to struggle with low graduation rates.  Schools in the suburbs and in rural areas investigate their records…

Smoking Process

Smoking is a process that gives flavour to meat and helps preserve it longer. Manual smoking of meat, like smoking it out somewhere with wood and just hanging it above the smoke is a bit tiring, because you still have to monitor if the wood is already all used up, and if the meat is still properly hanging. Using an electric smoker save less monitoring time and helps you smoke meats with ease. on how to smoke meat…

Teachers need great principals who need great superintendents in order to be successful with our students. As far away as the superintendency may seem from the students, the responsibility for building and maintaining a healthy, dynamic, growing system ultimately resides with the superintendent. Read more...

Vicki Cobb: The Demise of the Artist-Teacher…

New York: Dissident Group of Regents Offers Alternative Vision of Teacher Evaluation…

To Boost Reading Skills, Restore the Liberal Arts to Elementary School By Robert Pondiscio…

Common Core’s First Breakout Hit? By Robert Pondiscio…

The NYSED Meetings: Leading to Change or More of the Same?…

Emotions are contagious…

Orson Welles made a great point, get an audience interested, and they can understand ANYTHING.

 He was talking showbiz, movies, plays. But I immediately realized the same insight applied to education.

 I wrote a little tribute to Orson Welles, as last month was the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Let me…

SPED data and accessibility

A new report from the National Center for Educational Outcomes analyzes whether states publicly report data for students with disabilities with the same frequency, and in the same detail, as it reports on the assessment of nondisabled children, as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. It also assesses reporting of performance gaps across years, and ease of access to public reporting of participation and…

Common Core's next problem

As California districts finish administering new Smarter Balanced online Common Core assessments, educators face the next hurdle: sharing data with millions of parents about how their children fared, writes Sarah Tully for EdSource. It's anticipated that fewer students will meet proficiency standards compared to the earlier California Standards Tests in 2013 and before. New scores break down into four categories: "standard exceeded,"…

Behind the Headline: Study: Kids Can Learn As Much from ‘Sesame Street’ as from Preschool By Education Next…

Each of us has our own perspectives, beliefs, and biases. We see the world through our own eyes, carrying with us our past experiences and our present circumstances. How then, can we actually see and know what is the true problem or the best solution?  Grandmothers all shared the old adage "Two heads are better than one." We agree.  And ten heads may be better than two!  Whether planning for a learning opportunity for students or a meeting with colleagues, the perspectives of others…