The New York Times ran an article in the Education section entitled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops (free subscription required) that documents instances of school districts (and one independent school) retiring their laptop programs after they failed to deliver results.
This make sense to me, not because laptop programs are a bad idea (says [...]
This site (edublogs.org) was down for a while, causing much consternation to those teachers and students who depend on it.
Didn’t affect me much. Been up to my armpits in alligators with the usual start-of-the-year school stuff. Now I hope to have more time to read and write….
The Risk Pool: In a recent New Yorker article, [...]
In The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell talks about people who act as connectors. Connectors are people who, first and foremost, know a lot of people. Gladwell talks about the key role that connectors play in helping something new (a fashion, an idea) catch on.
From an article titled "Leadership Philadelphia about to connect with ‘connectors’" in [...]
