What children in our culture want to learn when they are free turns out to be skills that are valued in our culture and that lead to good jobs and satisfying lives.
Category Archives: Education
Boy Gap
American boys across the ability spectrum are struggling in the nation’s schools.
Literally Kills Me
Use a word incorrectly often enough, and it becomes…
Also, shouldn’t you avoid using a word in its own definition?
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Best Party School
An affordable Big Ten university with students who are both studious and social.
Lernstift Digital Pen
Bring handwriting into the 21st century.
Let’s Grid
An online programming environment that is designed to get people into programming.
This Is Water
Drifting Lesson
One Laptop Per Child
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word?
Accuplacer and COMPASS
A downscale version of the SAT.