One of the greatest challenges of being a teacher is trying to convince your students why they should care about anything that you write on the blackboard. You have to bridge the gap between their current boredom and ten years later, when they will finally appreciate the utility of what they are learning.
Yet there [...]
I’m just now getting around to watching my TED talks…Author and publisher, Dave Eggers, and his “Once Upon A School” presentation so far takes the cake. I have been a fan of Eggers ever since his best-selling, quirky memoir, entitled: “The Heartbreaking Working of a Staggering Genius” came out in 2000. Ten years later, [...]
The following is from the beautifully articulated TBD email by All Day Buffet.
If you ran the world, what would you do? Go ahead, think for a sec. (Aside from buying an island off of Thailand and/or making someone bake you a pie every morning.) How about something as audacious as saving the world? Now [...]
In honor of the weekend and all of the mind-boggling, free-thinking that is coming out of the TED conference, I wanted to provide you with a little perspective on just how far we’ve come. “A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything” is a biro-pen hatched, animated flip book that more or less summarizes how [...]
The social entrepreneurship crew generally likes to poo poo traditional development.
And why not? It is an easy target given the widely held belief that aid doesn’t work and evidence showing the wholesale ineffectiveness of many development projects. We are increasingly convinced that aid donors – institutional and individual – have dumped incalculable sums down [...]
When I watch the shiny, intent faces of my Basque students as they stumble awkwardly over their English vocabulary in thick accents, it’s impossible to fathom that any of them could become a serious danger to society. Granted, they have to barricade the ground floor of windows to prevent the weekend prowlers from making [...]
Besides working on the coolest blog ever, I also work on Box Tops for Education at General Mills. Within this program, I lead the new ventures desk. I get to think of and work on innovative and effective ways Box Tops for Education can continue to expand and serve K-8 teachers across the United [...]
I recently went back to school – specifically, to the Williamsburg College Charter School in Brooklyn, N.Y. I was there to check out the News Literacy Project, an initiative founded last year by Alan Miller, a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times and an unflagging advocate for the value of journalism to [...]
A cause that I’m personally passionate about is education. I, as many of you, believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to pursue a world class education. Unfortunately, for most students around the world, this is simply not true. In fact, for many students right here in the United States, this sentiment isn’t [...]
We are in the throes of World Cup Soccer qualifications here in Europe and it is predictably fast becoming a polarizing event. Most recently, it has been Thierry Henry’s infuriating handball assist that went uncalled on the field during the France vs. Ireland match. Because of the referee’s error, the Irish have lost their [...]
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Upon my arrival in Bilbao, my quest to find the public library was at the top of my list. Most of us feel anxiety when we are away from our cell phones or computers for an extended period of time – I get nervous when I don’t have access to books. I know that [...]
