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I was reading through my Digg headlines this weekend, and I happened on this article of the top 10 most extraordinary Twitter updates.  I also did some digging (no pun intended) and found articles that range in claiming that there ...

I have an article in the new March/April issue of Imagine Magazine, put out by Johns Hopkins.  It's a beautiful magazine, whose audience is gifted middle schoolers.  It's always a pleasure to write for a middle school audience.  I can see ...

So by now I assume we've all heard of the sanctioned "cage fighting" in a Dallas, TX school.  As AP reports, school officials apparently condoned the use of a steel cage in which students could bare-knuckle fight their way ...

There's been so much talk lately of deep-needed reforms for education, but we neglect just how powerful a simple makeover can be.  I'm lucky to currently work at a school that has a patch of green, which fixes the broken ...

So here's my Keynote presentation for all of you who wanted to flip through it for some reminders.  To open up my handouts, click here.   Hope you all enjoyed the session, and feel free to drop me a line if ...

OK, guys.  So I got it from the horse's mouth at CUE.  According to the ISTE Director of Governmental Affairs, No Child Left Behind is not going away.   In the weeks leading up to the election, the Obama administration talked ...

I believe a classroom library is the heartbeat of a teacher's environment.  It is the window into their own personality, and it reflects the importance of literacy in the classroom.  I believe every teacher, no matter the subject taught, should ...

The Register reports that DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) is currently researching how to create robots that are "like some self-aware computer systems capable of "meta-reasoning" and "introspection..."  Their goal is to "Provide machines with an ability to reason ...

Somehow, and maybe I'm reading into it here, I feel a little written off already.  Education Week is reporting that some districts are pondering the possibility of "front-loading" new teacher salaries, increasing their compensation earlier in their career to aid ...

This weekend I'm presenting at the CATE conference in Santa Clara, CA.  It's a session on developing high level, critical-thinking commentary in expository writing.  My feeling is that great commentary is the Voice in Expository, it is the Show, Not ...