Questions About Changing School

This morning on Twitter I shared some questions that I have asked students in the past when trying to gather their feedback about what they ...

A Message to The Brookings Institution About School Reform

Warning! Rant Ahead! Last week I received an email from someone in the PR department of The Brookings Institution. The email asked me promot...

Balancing Reform with Reality

Image Credit: John Webber This morning I had a conversation on Twitter that led me to writing a Google+ post about the need to balance our i...

Food for Thought - Schools for Tomorrow

Yesterday, The New York Times hosted their Schools for Tomorrow Conference. I'll admit that I don't know as much about it as I prob...

Stop Waiting for Superman, He's Been Found!

As I've mentioned before I rarely weigh-in on the political aspects of school reform because that doesn't help fulfill the purpose o...

This Is Broken - Why?

The video below features Seth Godin giving a presentation called This Is Broken . In his talk Seth explains the seven reasons why things, b...

Hey Seth, How About Some Practical Ideas?

Warning: This post is a bit of an editorial rant. I rarely do this on Free Technology for Teachers , but this has been bugging me for a whil...

The Harlem Children's Zone

Last night 60 Minutes ran a segment about The Harlem Children's Zone school started by Geoffery Canada. I watched all of it and was imp...