In reading Drive by Daniel Pink, I have to tell you that the more I read, the more agitated I have become, and it has minimal to do with Pink’s content or discussion. I can’t help but take specific notice of an underlying theme of the book that strikes a particular chord with education. Pink [...]

An article in the Washington Post today (January 6th) discusses an announcement to be made by the Obama administration to provide $250 million dollars in aid to improve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) instruction and “help the nation compete in key fields with economic rivals”. This is an outstanding effort by the Obama administration to empower teachers with [...]

The University of Michigan is making waves with the revamping of their teacher preparation program! Why the exclamation point at the end of that sentence? Because it is about time that schools of education begin to realize that they are behind medical schools, law schools, and business schools in the quality of preparation that graduating [...]

An article in the New York Times today discusses the implications on learning that exist when adjunct professors are hired to teach courses. In a time of economic turmoil, this only seems more and more prevalent (as the article states). In undergraduate schools of education, I tend to wonder if this is necessarily a bad [...]