Blogs about Education

Axidraw is a remarkable machine designed to assist with many drawing and writing needs. Wit the right pens for Axidraw, you can tackle almost any task you traditionally do with a manual pen, such as …

Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting …

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 …

This paper (Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study by Goh et al.) on ‘diagnostic reasoning’ hasn’t had enough attention. The authors fully expected Doctors plus GenAI to …

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 …

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ICYMI — Laura Marcus from Tidelines Institute stopped by to talk about her education journey and the experiential education work she is leading in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Jed and I discussed several issues on the …

My latest MusicRadar assignment was to pick something from Jeff Buckley’s Grace to write about. I chose the weird old showtune. The column was mainly an excuse to meditate on the difference between classical timekeeping …

Hello Lenore, I have had great interest in your philosophy and truly feel connected to your philosophy of allowing our children the opportunity to grow and as individuals through independence and exploration. I had the …

Below is the mid-term for my Modern Japan class. You can see the syllabus here. I wanted to think about this a bit, because I am trying to do several things with it, and I …

Looking to the next 50 years of Houston Foresight. We hope you’ll join us in 2025 as we glimpse back on the last 50 and get ready for the next! Registration coming soon, but mark …

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 …

In the mid-19th century, school reformers made the distinction between head-and-hand learning in children and youth–both had to be schooled. After the Civil War, reformers introduced “manual education” into schools. Working with tools to fashion …

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 …

Effect is such a funny thing to explore when reading texts. It is wrapped up in so many things. What has happened previously? What does the reader think will happen next? What is really going …