From the “Ways of Thinking About Learning That Drive Me Crazy Dept.” comes this article in the Miami Herald titled “Ways We Can Make Students Interested in School.”

Reading this most excellent post by Ira Socol this morning got me thinking about the word “risk” and its use in a learning context. So often I hear that we in education need to “take more risks,” or that our kids need to do that, that “risk-taking” is an important part of learning.

Basketball is Life

As some of you may have seen on my Twitter feed Saturday, my son Tucker and his teammates at SportsU won the Under Armour…

Neil Postman in The End of Education (1995);

What we needed to know about cars — as we need to know…