School is out for summer! Education Futures will continue publishing on a reduced schedule until late August. This means, we expect to get an article out once every week or so. We will also use this time to redesign bits of the website. Expect great things!

This is a little bit off topic; but having just experienced a month-and-a-half-long ordeal where my moravec.us domain was taken hostage by “investors,” I believe it’s important to build awareness of this disturbing trend. Jay Westerdal writes at the DomainTools Blog on how Network Solutions, a company entrusted to manage Internet top level domains, is [...]

MoneyLaw‘s Jim Chen (a former University of Minnesota law school professor and new dean at the University of Louisville) posted his take on Tom Sullivan’s defense of tenure related to the University of Minnesota’s quest to become one of the top three public research universities in the world (see also last week’s EF note). He [...]

Sometimes pictures are worth more than a thousand words. Here’s a photo recap from the past week in China…   Shanghai at night Conference poster at Anqing Teachers College I present my stuff with translation help from Wu Jian (“Johnson”) At the Huang Mei Opera Meeting with Anqing Teachers College leaders

Finland has been the subject of many discussions about leapfrogging in education. Now, it has accomplished another amazing feat. Lordi, the undead space monsters from Finland, won this year’s Eurovision contest. I can’t stop laughing. Watch the video.