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NY story: More money = better schools, better tests2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: Headlines across New York this morning shout about improved test scores, especially in reading and m … more »

Tags: Economics, Education, Education assessment, Education quality, Education reform, Education spending, Politics, Public Education, Teaching

School of Wow1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: A river of real learning, a rising tide of excellence. Art from students at the school I’d lik … more »

Tags: Art, Education, Education Blogs, Education quality, Learning, Life, Natural History, Education Excellence, Elementary Education

Two million minute challenge3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Just over two weeks to graduation, son James is concerned about global competitiveness.  He’s … more »

Tags: Business, capitalism, Economics, Education, Education quality, Foreign Affairs, Geography - Economic, Globalization, Higher Education

Education spending, per pupil, apples to apples5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Utah rejected education vouchers last November, so the release from the Census bureau at the first o … more »

Tags: Economics, Education, Teacher pay, Teaching, Public Education, Classroom size, Education spending, Politics, Education reform

China hammered by "globalization" - why students should study

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Economics, history and geography, and “vocational” teachers take note:  David Brooks … more »

Tags: Education, Business, technology, History, Public Education, Globalization, Financial Literacy, Personal Finance, Higher Education

Europe is a country? Whom the gods destroy . . .8 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: No.  Europe is not a country. Was it Euripides who said, “Whom the gods destroy, they first … more »

Tags: Geography - Political, Humor, Rampant stupidity, Geography, Education, ignorance, budapest, hungary, Kelly Pickler

Boost test performance: Start school later4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 5 months ago: Students perform better when schools adjust schedules to accommodate the realities of biology: High … more »

Tags: Education, Public Education, Education spending, Brain development, Brain learning, Testing, Public Health, Education quality, Health Care

More carnival: "Educational technology" is not oxymoronic

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Here’s a new blog carnival you may find useful: The Educational Technology Carnival. The 6th … more »

Tags: classroom technology, Economics, Education, Literature, Teaching, technology, Technology in the Classroom, Weblogs, writing

Cue Taylor Mali . . .1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: The last line of Taylor Mali’s slam poem about what a teacher makes – remember it? Here … more »

Tags: Teaching

Snuffing out math talent1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 7 months ago: Could I cover one block of math? Family emergency, the teacher had to go, math practice assignment … more »

Tags: Science, TAKS, Texas, No Child Left Behind Act, Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), Testing, Education quality, Education assessment, Politics

Practice, even with failure, more important than talent

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: Every teacher needs to get familiar with the work of Carol Dweck. She’s a Stanford psycholog … more »

Tags: Education, Pedagogy, Teaching, Brain development, Brain learning, Classroom Management, Learning, Science, Psychology

Pete Seeger → banjo → Steve Martin

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: Comedian Steve Martin has a couple of new books out, and the New York Times tracked him down for an … more »

Tags: History, Music, Education, Steve Martin, Pete Seeger, Banjo, Comedy

Quote of the Moment: Ellen Langer on learned helplessness2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: A much more pernicious loss of choice and control is brought about by repeated failure.  After a nu … more »

Tags: Education, Teaching, Brain development, Brain learning, Science, Psychology, Learned Helplessness, Business Management

Black men teaching

Ed Darrell wrote 8 months ago: Will Okun’s question: Does it make a difference to a black student what color her teacher is? … more »

Tags: Civil Rights, Education, Teaching, Education Blogs, Education quality, Race,

Does technology help education? Economist debate

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago:   The Economist’s on-line site launched a debate feature. First topic up in this Oxford-styl … more »

Tags: Education quality, technology, Technology in the Classroom, Computers, Education reform

Economics Nobels: Three Americans

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: Simple press release: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided … more »

Tags: Economics, History

Peace Nobel: Al Gore and IPCC4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: 2007’s Nobel Prize for Peace sailed out to Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel … more »

Tags: Science, accuracy, climate change, Al Gore, nobel peace prize, US education

Too much communication: e-mail2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: What’s one big difference between education and business? Communication, especially electron … more »

Tags: Best Practices, Business, Classroom Management, classroom technology, Education, Organizational Communication, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, E-mail

Chemistry Nobel: Reactions on solid surfaces

Ed Darrell wrote 9 months ago: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded this morning, went to Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz-Haber-Institut … more »

Tags: Globalization, Science, , Chemistry, Nobel Prizes


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