Category: Guest Blog

Why Are Curricular Wars Fought Again and Again? (Larry Cuban)

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Teachers as Micro-Politicians: Class DoJo (Larry Cuban)

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“Transform” Schools: Hyped Language Weakens Reform (Larry Cuban)

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Beware: myth alert – Paul Kirschner

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Who’s gonna foot the bill? – Paul Kirschner

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Is School Desegregation a Path to Racial Equality? The Story of Shaker Heights, Ohio (Laura Meckler)

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Devil’s advocate. A plea against Prince Ea (Casper Hulshof)

I wrote a post about the video already, but Casper Hulshof did the big job of analyzing the whole thing. I reposted the post here with his permission. It’s really not difficult to criticize schools. Just pointing at anything that happens in schools and then stating something like: “That sure looks old, why hasn’t it changed?”… Read More Devil’s advocate. A plea against Prince Ea (Casper Hulshof)

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Guest post by Helena Taelman: Children influence their teacher’s language!

This is the result of a breakfast talk… Dr Helena Taelman discusses some interesting new research on the dynamics of a preschool classroom. In order to battle children’s language delays from early on, teachers of preschool classrooms nowadays often get interaction training (or responsivity education). The purpose of this training is that they learn to… Read More Guest post by Helena Taelman: Children influence their teacher’s language!

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Guest post by Polle de Maagt: Did we lose 30% of our Facebook friends last year?

This post is written by Polle de Maagt for his own blog. I asked him if I could share it here with you. His answer was ‘sure!’. I’m a sucker for data and Excel sheets. I just love to spend the night browsing through Facebook Insights export data. As you probably know, you can easily… Read More Guest post by Polle de Maagt: Did we lose 30% of our Facebook friends last year?

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HBDI: evidence based and evidence based makes two

Last week I did a presentation on myths about GenY and when I checked the rest of the program, something catched my eye: there was also a session on HBDI. I didn’t know it all, but when I checked online, I discovered I found a new myth in education… What is HBDI? HBDI stands for… Read More HBDI: evidence based and evidence based makes two

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