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Bernstein: High school future is high tech

Published: June 1, 2012 7:06 PM

Newsday

By MARC F. BERNSTEIN

Photo credit: Illustration by Martin Kozlowski |

It's time for the next big thing in education, a true revolution in our approach to high school teaching and learning. The vision comes courtesy of …

Going Too Easy on Our Charges: Teachers and Doctors’ “Affective Errors”

My friend, John Carver, a prominent education leader in Iowa, Skyped me the other day just to kick around some ideas in education that he was considering.  John and I often have discussions about education. Of course my favorite thing about our discussions is that John often likes what I have to say. As always, things came around to the role of technology in education. John has been a leader in the 1:1 laptop movement in Iowa schools.

During the course of our discussion we both agreed…

It was President Eisenhower who warned our country of blindly falling victim to a military industrial complex as an unintended consequence of the relationship between government and defense contractors.  He spoke of this as a grave threat to our democracy. Today, we face a different insidious threat from within, cloaked in the false clothing that masquerades as new and improved commercial products and technical fixes to an organic problem.  We hear…

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I recently had a lengthy discussion, ironically on Twitter, with a very tech-savvy educator friend about his concerns that big ideas in education might be getting drowned out as a result of the continuing discussions about Social Media and connectedness for educators.  I hope I am categorizing that correctly. My friend felt that Social Media is a powerful medium that can be used to learn, but too much attention is given to it at the expense of other powerful ideas. According to him,” it's…

Ten Pieces of Advice for Rookie Teachers

From the Marshall Memo #437

(Originally titled “The Don’ts and Don’ts of Teaching”)

In this Educational Leadership article, New York City high-school teacher Gary Rubinstein lists the mistakes he wishes he’d been warned not to make in his rookie year:

• Don’t try to teach too much in a day. Teachers are…

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Thoughts on Racial and Economic Integration in Schools and Classrooms

From the Marshall Memo #437

In this Education Gadfly article, Michael Petrilli knits together several important demographic and pedagogical themes that have been in the news recently:

• For the first time, reported The New York Times last week, nonwhites account for more than half of U.S. births.…