In the News

Research findings confirm the importance of relationships in reform education
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/07/16/the-importance-of-relationships-in-education-reform/

Spelunking with children, why not for looking at ourselves as a society?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/technology/in-a-fisher-price-lab-apps-are-childs-play-prototype.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120709

Something to Consider
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/how-reliable-are-the-social-sciences/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120518

Applicable to Innovating in Education Innovating in Education
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/jobs/building-the-watson-team-of-scientists.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

One Aspect to Consider While Designing a new Education Process 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/polymaths-bumblebees-and-the-expert-myth/2012/03/28/gIQAMa3qgS_story_1.html

A Must for Many Reasons
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?src=me&ref=general

One Smart Use of Communications Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/education/moocs-large-courses-open-to-all-topple-campus-walls.html?pagewanted=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

How it can Help the Evolution of the Education Process?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/technology/ibm-inch-closer-on-quantum-computer.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

Will this Help Advance the Collective Understanding of the Complexity of Education?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/education/ratings-of-new-york-city-teachers-to-be-released-friday.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha29

This is Only a Small Step in the Right Direction...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/a-sound-deal-on-teacher-evaluations.html?r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211

Our rules for college admission, and ideas about college achievement, are linear, but in reality, college achievement is complex. The factors are much more diverse than our educational system is built to accommodate. So are the people who succeed.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/beyond-sats-finding-success-in-numbers/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

It can happen...It is happenning!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/opinion/kristof-the-new-haven-experiment.html?r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

Nurturing the Value of Keeping it Real for Children
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/nyregion/foreign-parents-in-new-york-prefer-public-schools.html?pagewanted=2&src=recgJamie

Robert Vollmer, speaker and author of Schools Cannot Do It Alone, says:  "For the most important thing I have learned is that schools reflect the attitudes, beliefs and health of the communities they serve, and therefore, to improve public education means more than changing our schools, it means changing America."
http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/jamie-vollmer/the-blueberry-story-the-teacher-gives-the-businessman-a-lesson/

"This is a world in which education, innovation and talent will be rewarded more  than ever. Amen."  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/opinion/sunday/friedman-we-need-a-second-party.html?=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9oQYXu2ktg

The Yin and the Yang of Corporate Innovation
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/technology/apple-and-google-as-creative-archetypes.html?=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

A Huge Step in the Right Direction - Los Angeles - USA
http://www.educators4excellence.org/news/2012-01-e4e-la-executive-director-ama-nyamekye-teachers-take

About the Good Use of Data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/states-should-make-better-use-of-academic-data-study-days/2012/01/17/gIQAb6cs6P_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

On the Road to Innovation - Sao Paulo, Brazil
http://acervo.folha.com.br/fsp/2011/12/02/15

A collaboration of computer scientists and neuroscientists
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/creating-artificial-intelligence-based-on-the-real-thing.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210 

About how much today education is about a "process that establishes as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity with childlike attributes in adulthood such as idealism, experimentation and wonder.  In this new world, not only must we behave more like children, we also must teach the next generation to retain those attributes that will allow them to be world-changing, innovative adults who will help us reinvent the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html?_r=1&ref=science

It is Happening in Politics Why Not in Education?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/how-washington-went-social-in-011/2011/12/30/gIQA01X3QP_story_1.html

A Must to be Considered in the Education Process
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/spaceship-earth-a-new-view-of-environmentalism/2011/12/29/gIQAZhH6WP_story_2.html

About the Power of Collaboration between the Humanities and Science
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/jobs/building-the-watson-team-of-scientists.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

This is Only a Small Step in the Right Direction... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/a-sound-deal-on-teacher-evaluations.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211

innovating by the seat of our pants
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/science/joichi-ito-innovating-by-the-seat-of-our-pants.html?_r=1&ref=science

One Smart Use of Communications Technology - MOOC's
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/education/moocs-large-courses-open-to-all-topple-campus-walls.html?pagewanted=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

Devolution in Education

Racial animus against President Obama?   
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/attorney-general-holder-is-right-racial-animus-plays-role-in-obama-opposition

A Reality Check 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/journey-for-racial-justice-is-not-over /2012/05/13/gIQAR8QMNU_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

Racism, Still a Reality
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/education/black-students-face-more-harsh-discipline-data-shows.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120306

About a Very Narrow Approach
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/opinion/for-teachers-shame-is-no-solution.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_F 

More about growing poverty and education
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/opinion/kristof-the-decline-of-white-workers.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

The poor are the americans no one wants to talk about
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-poor-are-the-americans-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/2012/01/18/gIQADZM5BQ_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

On innovations/polymaths-bumblebees and the expert myth
http://wpisrc=nl_opinionshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/polymaths-bumblebees-and-the-expert-myth/2012/03/28/gIQAMa3qgS_story_1.html

"Our rules for college admission, and ideas about college achievement, are linear, but in reality, college achievement is complex. The factors are much more diverse than our educational system is built to accommodate. So are the people who succeed. 
http://"http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/beyond-sats-finding-success-in-numbers/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

A Boost for the World's PoorestSchools
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/118675/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

It is Happening in Politics Why Not in Education?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/how-washington-went-social-in-2011/2011/12/30/gIQA01X3QP_story_1.html

Schools Kill Creativity
 http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

A Case in Point - The One Shot Society 
http://www.economist.com/node/21541713

A State of Confusion and its Consequences
 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/world/asia/for-indias-poor-private-schools-help-fill-a-growing-demand.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha22

A Good Solution with Limited Impact 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/education/big-pay-days-in-washington-dc-schools-merit-system.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

It Begs to Ask What and How to Facilitate the Work of a Good Teacher. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/opinion/kristof-the-value-of-teachers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

Too much reliance on unrelated data to determine actual teacher effectiveness.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/education/study-on-teacher-value-uses-data-from-before-teach-to-test-era.html?src=recg

Losing high tech manufacturing-jobs to Asia 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-losing-high-tech-manufacturing-jobs-to-asia/2012/01/17/gIQA9P1S6P_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines