I was talking in the physical world today about a discussion I had in the virtual world about AP College Board courses and their reliance on the memorization of facts in order to prepare for a test (presumably for college credit). Aaron, I don’t get how you can hate the College Board so much but [...]

It’s AP exam week (hence the minimal blogging and tweeting I did this weekend), and the kids are bracing themselves for the excruciating 3.5 hour exam on Friday. Fifty-five of those minutes will be spent answering eighty multiple-choice questions that cover American history from pre-Columbian to present day. What interested me today was a discussion [...]

It is rather intriguing to look around the world of education and listen to the varying beliefs on “what” should be taught in schools. Curriculum is always a favorite target of mine, and many of you who read my work regularly know my feelings on our inflated, overstuffed, irrelevant curricula that emphasize a need to [...]

I hope that when you saw the title of this post you thought I had gone completely mad. Am I really going to write a 463 part series on homework? No way. My point is that it seems educators perceive the “issue” of homework as a topic that you either believe in it or you [...]