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April is National Poetry Month 2014 — are you ready?

If you ask me, we don’t have enough poetry in our lives. In bygone times, newspapers carried poems almost daily.  Magazines carried poems in every issue, but today you find fewer poems published in...

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W. Edwards Deming, the Life Diagram

In working to make quality common, and valuable, W. Edwards Deming seems to have learned a little about life along the way. In 1989, he sketched out this diagram. I think it speaks for itself, but what...

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Education just like making toasters?

Fred Klonsky, the best under-published cartoonist on education issues: Also at Klonsky’s blog.Filed under: Cartoons, Education, Education reform, Political cartoons, Teachers, Teaching Tagged: Bill...

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A parable, about why education “reform” isn’t working

Well, yeah, it’s a parable, if by parable you mean “a story we blessed well better sit up and pay attention to!” But it’s a true story. Our friend, the teacher Kathy Paxton-Williams related the story:...

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History of physics, in four minutes

History teachers, physics teachers, you should use this film. In amusing animation — perhaps a throwback to earlier animations, but good and amusing — produced by Åsa Lucander @ 12foot6, for the...

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Should teachers make videos for classroom use? Economics edition

Mary McGlasson teaches economics at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona. She makes videos for use in class, and out of class, and by others, on key economic concepts. I’ve used her videos in...

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Celebrating Veterans Day 2016

A teacher asked on Twitter yesterday for sources of information to set up a curriculum for Veterans Day, and I sent a few suggestions (and got thanked!). Teachers watching through the day probably saw...

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I get e-mail: Pi resources for classrooms, from PBS

The good folks at PBS work to provide great resources for teachers, and they’ve got some for Pi Day, as we might expect. In an e-mail, PBS said: Discover how one number is so important and why it gets...

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Veterans Day 2017

  Another very nice Veterans Day poster from the Veterans Administration, for 2017: In world history or U.S. history, I usually stop for the day to talk about the origins of Veterans Day in Armistice...

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Veterans Day 2018 – Fly your flag

We fly our flags today, November 11, to honor all veterans, an extension and morphing of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I. The Armistice took effect on the November 11, 1918. (In...

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