As guest blogger coming off a Thanksgiving-typtophan stupor, I found myself asking the very question many of my English students have posed over the years. A recent posting on Insidehighered.com told about a curriculum redesign of writing for frst-year students. Scott Warnock of Drexell University says about the redesign: “The conventional way that assignments are presented to [...]
"My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school."
-Margaret Mead
Florida Virtual School Report
11/23/2007
The following is a brief excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel regarding a study of Florida Virtual School. The Florida Virtual School is a good deal for Florida taxpayers. That is the view of Florida Tax Watch, which recently did a study on student performance and cost effectiveness at the virtual school. The [...]
If Shakespeare had been in my English class…
11/20/2007
I shudder to think. This notion came to mind as I watched this video, Do Schools Kill Creativity, delivered by Sir Ken Robinson at a TED Conference in Monterey, CA. where he again raises the concern that our educational system is about the business of educating people out of their creativity. Over the years, I’ve inspired many a [...]
The Virtual Teacher
11/18/2007
Sometime ago, I had heard Thomas Friedman suggest that we often have 21st Century students and 20th Century teachers. I felt indicted by this statement and hope that on my better days, that might actually be true. I taught for years in an urban setting, teaching for St. Paul Public Schools, and I began to question [...]
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