“Play is a very efficient way of learning for children,” she told me. “And we can use it in a way that children will learn with joy ( Read more... )

How did you get a Master's Degree and yet have such lousy spelling and no idea how capitalization works and leave out half the necessary punctuation in your little essay? How can you write such a long rambling Facebook note and still manage to not make a single coherent point ( Read more... )

“I’ve never seen a lobby more powerful and scary,” said Ellen Heinitz, the legislative director for Michigan state Rep. Stephanie Chang, who ran up against HSLDA backlash when she tried to pass home-schooling regulations a few months ago. “They make the anti-vaxxers seem rational ( Read more... )

I know how close I came to the edge. And I think a part of that was that not getting shot and not going to jail simply wasn't enough to make me want to succeed in school. No one ever told me about Paris. No one I knew had ever been.
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Education is about allowing our children to dream bigger.

One of the big stories for me in the past year or so has been the high cost of a college education. I first became aware of it when I was reading stories about the Occupy Wall Street movement a year and a half ago when there was so much coverage about the college students and recent grads involved in the protests. And the more I read about how ( Read more... )

Apparently the solution for the lack of qualified math and science students is a slice of Raspberry Pi. Kewl!

CNN: What inspired you to invent the Raspberry Pi?
Eben Upton: A group of us here at the University of Cambridge were involved in trying to find 17, 18-year-olds to come and study computer science and what we found every year was a ( Read more... )