Science teacher

An hour shorter makes for a longer week...  "...[T]he shift to Daylight Saving Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in ...

 This originally was written in January, 2009--nothing has changed. Got a little help from Clay Burrell, too. Prince Arne declared him...

Teaching matters. We owe it to our children to get it right.  What do you care to know about the world? There's a place for wha...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo...

"The College Board was founded with a deep commitment to equity and must play a critical role in helping all students achieve high a...

Every day I am asked what the secret is to ensuring every child in New Jersey graduates from high school ready for college and career,...

19th century version: Yesterday I headed for one of my favorite places with one of my favorite people to do one of my favorite things--cla...

 Tomorrow I am going on an adventure! Despite predictions of a 30 knot breeze with rain tossed in, I plan to grab my rake and wa...

An old-fashioned gum eraser ($0.45) New Jersey, like several other states, has an eraser problem--children in some districts have a bad ha...

Here are a few inexpensive "toys" that can make your favorite biology teacher a hero in her classroom! Crookes radiometer (~$8)...

Update: turns one co-founder is Christine Healey DeVaull; her Dad, Bob Healey, made a fortune selling luxury boats , and now shares some of ...

Rajeev Bajaj runs Global Education Advisors , originally a "one person" company with grammar issues founded using Chris Cerf...

Mark Zuckerberg donated a huge chunk of money, $100 million,  to Newark, to help education. A few other people kicked in $48 million more. ...

Because sometimes I forget...this one's from August, 2010--I needed to see it again. So what do you do? What do you do when major ...

Cerf said that only 22 percent of incoming high school freshmen in Newark ever graduate with a diploma, and even then "it's not e...

A Crooke's radiometer measures sunlight intensity, which sounds all scary and scientificy, until you see one in action. It's simpler...

Turns out Sue Ohanian beat me to the punch in her Outrages blog. N.J. education czar nominee appeals to union, Dems "...and is already ...