Blogs about Education

In this guide, I have compiled a list of ten highly recommended AP Calculus AB textbooks and math books that are perfect for self-study.

Stevenson first introduces Dr Hastie Lanyon when Utterson goes to seek his help. Lanyon is described as a “hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman… [with] a boisterous and decided manner”. Here, Stevenson is at pains to …

Roll up, roll up, roll up and welcome to the two hundred and twenty ninth Carnival of Mathematics! 229 is a prime number, and that in itself is interesting. Its the “elder” of a set …

Yesterday (June 2nd 2024) we lost one of our great sporting heroes. Of course I’m talking about Rob Burrow CBE who played scrum-half for Leeds Rhinos. He was the tender age of 41. He lost …

In spite of our best efforts, the academic performance of our most and least advantaged students stubbornly refuses to close. In fact, as a recent report from the Education Policy Institute shows, the gap seems …

Good discussion paper on the Role and Expertise of AI EthicistsWho is an AI Ethicist? An Empirical Study of Expertise, Skills, and Profiles to Build a Competency Framework Mariangela Zoe Cocchiaro et al.Bottom line – …

In the world of commonly confused words, “fourth or forth” is a common quandary! Let’s explore the difference between the two spellings, because one little letter can make a world … The post Fourth or …

The firebox

Last week my colleagues Alex Spurrier and Marisa Mission launched the first edition of a new Bellwether newsletter focused on AI. I’m crossposting the first one in its entirety and hope you will subscribe to …

What makes Jerry Garcia’s guitar style so magical? What makes a person like me slog through so much indifferent-to-terrible Grateful Dead music to hear it? Rather than try to understand the whole corpus at once, …

Folks — This is a topic that sometimes comes up and is indicative of our culture’s worst-first thinking: The idea that anytime anyone takes a picture in public that happens to include kids, the kids …

Via Sinologists list, a Chinese news item on a Tang tomb in Taiyuan There is a nice scene of food prep, so if, for teaching purposes, you need a picture of a woman doing laundry? …

The 2024 APF Student Recognition awards were announced and, once again, we had some winners! It is quite an amazing set of projects. Please do take a look at them! Olivia Cuellar, Carlo Lopa, and …

Have you tried any blindfold activities with your child? If your child goes to a Montessori school, it's likely they have tried some sensorial activities like the pink tower, knobbed cylinders, thermic tablets, perhaps even …

for students | for scholars | for pleasure This blog is no longer being updated regularly with fresh content. Here are some self-study resources (including text and video) for those who would like to improve …

I reviewed David Brooks’s How to Know a Person for the TLS: David Brooks was raised in a Jewish family whose motto, he says, might have been “Think Yiddish, Act British.” He learned to be …

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”* Novelist William Faulkner’s quote captures the connection between “progressive education” in public schools over a century ago and what happens in schools in the 2020s. In …

At the age of seven, I waved a medical encyclopedia in front of my parents and announced that I had “free-floating anxiety”. The book was one of only a few we had in the house, …

I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to work in our partner kindergarten in Norway over the Easter break, it was the perfect chance to spend time in the kindergarten without having to get …

We never really talk enough about the complexity of reading and writing. And, we certainly don’t talk enough about the emotional complexity of writing or the psychology of writing (and reading). Instead, we tend to …