Category: Wisdom

  • Aristotle once said “For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” Today, I’d like to share 60 minutes on the Bat of Minerva While I was in Minneapolis to give a keynote at the…

    60 minutes on Bat of Minerva
  • Originally posted on Cloaking Inequity: So what happens when a President chooses a basketball buddy as Secretary of Education? Really, Obama… what did you expect when you chose a non-educator, non-expert to lead American education? A leader who left Chicago in shambles, whose school “turnarounds” didn’t work. Disappointed by his latest inanity at the Mom…

    A Top Ten of @ArneDuncan Inanity: Obama’s Basketball Buddy Drops Ball on Ed
  • I hope you enjoy this photographic journey through one of America’s fine public schools. This week I visited Trimble Tech High School in Fort Worth, Texas. Being out the field with our nation’s children and spending time with their educators is always informative and inspirational. For context, from Wikipedia: Green B. Trimble Technical High School…

    This School is Lovely: A Collage of Photos from Historic Campus
  • Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Murphy’s Law can be summarized as “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.”  Murphy’s Amendment was a proposed amendment to the recently reauthorized version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).  The last reauthorization of ESEA in 2002 was known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and is generally…

    TFA endorses Murphy’s Law
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