On the Tenure Track

Want a SmartBoard? Yeah — so does everybody else. Rich schools will get it; poor schools won’t. Hell, poor schools won’t get technology until the item costs as much as a textbook.
Good thing an off-brand SmartBoard costs as much as a textbook. Check out this Web site, or watch this TED talk.

I’ve mentioned TED here [...]

I can’t imagine department meetings as fun as those of the social science department at my high school.
We had an administrator come to air the administration’s case for Small Learning Communities, a worthwhile educational structure that wears the guise of one of the many research-based almost-fads that pass as reform around here.
The cynicism comes via [...]