Just in time for parent conference season, Thomas Friedman does a piece in the NY Times on the role of parents in improving schools and their own children. How does that fit in with my parent conferences? Most of my parents are communicating with their kids, and seem to be on track with the recommendations […]

In my previous posts, I’ve discussed how teachers are backed against the wall in the reform argument, and this makes our own efforts at self-improvement harder to start. Here’s another bad place we find ourselves at in this debate. The argument usually goes like this: Reform-y type: All kids can learn, not all teachers can […]

In my poor monitoring of my rss feed and twitter, I missed this whole back and forth that’s one of those periodic conflicts that come up on the edublogosphere about “real teachers” vs. “ed tech types”. It sorta peaked in Lee Kolbert’s post I’m Not Who You Think I Am, but there are others out […]