Today President-elect Obama announced Arne Duncan as his nominee for U.S. education secretary. Duncan is currently the chief executive for Chicago Public Schools, but he will now move to a national position.
Unfortunately, the Harvard grad couldn’t live up to the constraints of the English language in his acceptance speech today. As Michelle Malkin [...]
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The terrible state of America’s education system appalls me, but I am even more frustrated by the ignorance of many who propose solutions.
New York City is attempting to fix their problems, and one of today’s NYT editorials addresses the new plan. You can read the entire editorial here, but I want to focus on [...]
The summary of the video, as posted on TED.com, is this:
Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
I love that idea, and I hope [...]
Today, on the recommendation of my church’s youth pastor, I read Dr. Howard Hendricks’s Teaching to Change Lives. The insights and advice in the book are very valuable, and my teaching will be changed for reading his book.
In the book, Dr. Hendricks makes the point that:
The average listener in evangelical churches is not excited [...]
You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me”;your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away;disaster shall fall [...]
For several months I have been enamored with the concepts, theories, and philosophies related to education. Although my current academic path doesn’t point toward a career in education, I feel strongly that I will be involved in either the development or the running of a small Christian school sometime in the future. Numerous [...]
