by Ed Latham Change is hard. Even when the outlook is all positive and everyone is on board, the process of changing habits, attitudes, pr...

Today we lost Maurice Sendak , but his spirit and wisdom live on. He is perhaps best known for his book, Where the Wild Things Are . It wa...

Week 2012: 7th - 11th May Charles M. Blow "Teaching Me About Teaching" in NYT.http://www.teacher-appreciation.info/blog/?p=...

I was delighted to discover Smarthistory   this afternoon. It seems to be part of Khan Academy and to have been around for awhile. Th...

Want to start a charter school in Maine?  Education Commissioner, Stephen Bowen, announced the start of the process today.  Here are the lin...

Many forces have been frantically at work to "fix" education while still maintaining tenets that were established in the Industri...

With the arrival of Google Drive, there are now many inexpensive alternatives for syncing and storing files beyond the user's device.  ...

by Olga LaPlante I am borrowing this headline from Larry Cuban , who borrowed it from Lincoln Steffens. Larry writes about his visit to a hy...

It is too bad that Maine didn't make a run for the NCLB waiver. Maybe, the Maine DOE understands that the whole mandate is doomed anyway...

 by Olga LaPlante As schools are adopting new technologies, flying or struggling with others, technology remains what has always been – inc...

 by Olga LaPlante This is an interesting talk by Bill Gates. Of course, his main point we need to spend money on education, and disallow sta...

 "You really need to look at the range of issues, because if a 5-year-old can’t sit still, it is unlikely that they can do well in a k...

Education Week:  Panel Finds Few Learning Gains from Testing Movement

Sun Journal: 10 Years after Laptops Come to Maine Schools, Educators Say Technology Levels Playing Field for Students