Dewey: A Founding Father of “Pragmatism”
I like these characterizations of John Dewey and Pragmatism: In the whirling Heraclitean flux which is the pragmatist’s universe, there are no absolutes. There are …
Education
Education in the 40s
There’s a video (the title of the video says 40s in it) up on YouTube (which videos always come and go…so watch soon) that shows …
The Power of Poetry in Education
In Interview with a Children’s Librarian on PBSParents.com, a librarian named Natalie says: Poetry celebrates the individual word, the sound of language, and the rhythm …
Phonics Study
In “Lasting effects of phonics instruction” on the Teaching Effectively! blog, JohnL quotes what appears to be the abstract of a study: Thompson, G. B., …
Cultural Influences on Modern Education
An anti-reason, anti-intellectual culture will produce, of necessity, uneducated students. It’s the law of causality. In “The Accounting Cycle: Students Then and Now,” Mr. J. …
Some Evidence Regarding (Il)Literacy
In “14 Percent of U.S. Adults Can’t Read,” Mr. Robert Roy Britt writes on LiveScience.com: About 14 percent of U.S. adults won’t be reading this …
On Independent Thought
In “A Measure of Privacy,” Diana Senechal writes at the Core Knowledge Blog: Can schools teach privacy or even honor it? For the most part, …
Physical Activity and Brain Development 2B
Mrs. Bateman of Parents With Purpose also mentions or excerpts from a study on brain regeneration/growth: Adult Mouse Brains Still Make Youthful Cells The brains …
Physical Activity and Brain Development 2A
Donna Bateman, who runs Parents With Purpose, has some interesting articles on her website. (Though at least one is downright corrupt. Update (3-17-09 at 1:20 …
Physical Activity and Brain Development
Janine Cate at Why Homeschool said she recently went to a seminar on brain development and learned (these are excerpts only): 1) Children need lots …