Guest post by John Thompson. The cover story in the American Educator “Putting Students on the Path to Learning,” by Richard Clark, Paul Kirschner, and John Swelter should prompt a dialogue between ...

Internet access and more constructivist teaching practices are commonly called for by national- and state-level commissions and plans. This raises two questions that were the focus of a study we ...

Most people would agree that schools have dual responsibility: to make people smart and make them good. If the teachers accept the second function, they are grappling with an axiological issue. In ...

In a recent blog post, Kyle Pearce (@mathletepearce) raised the question “good at math or good at memorization?” Unlike most middle school math teachers, Kyle asks his students to wrestle with complex ...