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The Vatican is More Transparent Than the Classroom.
This year, as we wind to a close around here from the student side of things, amid all of the chaos of the crescendo that is the end of a school year, all I want to think about is transparency. I don’t usually get parent phone calls in this position, but when I do, it’s [...]
Continue reading...On Being Prolific
11. May 2009
This may be in complete violation of some unwritten rule of writing etiquette but I am going for it anyway. I was just going through my page at the English Companion Ning site because I had a new comment there and I found this post I wrote a while back. For whatever reason, I felt [...]
Continue reading...Open Letter to the Teacher Who Said “I Hate Technology.”
6. May 2009
Dear Teacher who Said “I hate technology,” First of all, I want to thank you for your candor and your willingness to openly share your opinion regarding the use of tools for learning. I am a firm believer that we should all have an open forum for expressing our opinions about our profession and the [...]
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Oil Spill Estimate
Pick your level of gush: NOAA’s super-conservative-we-just-publish-what-BP-tells-us or the Dr. Doom expert analysis. Either way, it’s not looking good. It’s looking goo.
- Open Letter to the Teacher Who Said "I Hate Technology."
- The Folly of Rubrics and Grades
- A Teacher's Field Guide to Parents
- Reviewing Cathy Vatterott's "Rethinking Homework"
- Shift Happens. (Even in Schools?)
- Marion Brady: Thank YOU. I hope I didn't leave the impression th...
- Marion Brady: I've done consulting work twice for the Gates Foun...
- Sharon Elin: One important parent type that could be added, in ...
- Jessica Horton: Marion, I love this piece, but I don't know if I a...
- Adam Burk: Thanks for this post, making the necessary highlig...
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3. June 2009
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