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The 7th P - I used to say that everything evil in education starts with the letter P. There were six Ps. But now I have found a 7th ...more...

Cash Those Chips - When I talk to people who might be interested in radical education reform I always ask what curricula their communities might need so we can think about how to produce those as well. The idea that every high school should be more or less the same offering of the same potpourri of algebra, American history, and Charles Dickens is just absurd, so I ask what they need in their world. The other day I visited a school for Native Americans in the Southwest. After some discussion of their needs, we came up with the following alternative to my alternative ...more...

The History Teacher or The Football Coach? - Did you ever wonder why what you learned in school isn’t still in your head, or why you can’t remember what your spouse wanted you to get on your way home? ...more...

The Library Metaphor - Certain metaphors dominate our society and our way of looking at the world. Lakoff has pointed out that seeing thinking as giving birth or seeing competition as war cause us to use language and then to actually believe that certain ways of seeing the world are the right way to see them. Competition really is war. We need to “kill” our opponent in the match. Sometimes these metaphors are helpful. Seeing time as money may help us “budget” our time better. But sometimes they are disastrous ...more...