Can We Keep it This Simple?: A Response to Amy Weisberg’s Huffington Post...
The simplest solution may be the best…unless it really isn’t that simple at all. Recently, a 32-year veteran teacher, Amy Weisberg, wrote an article for the Huffington Post outlining five necessary...
View ArticleVideo for the Classroom: A Tour through Ancient Rome, courtesy of Khan...
This is the type of history video Khan Academy needs! A Tour Through Ancient Rome is a collaboration between Khan and the Rome Reborn project, an initiative to create digital models of Rome from its...
View ArticleDavid Letterman – Top Ten Reasons I’ve Decided to Become a Teacher
I’m knee deep in LearnZillion work as I came back from my long break. The Gilder Lehrman conference at USC was great–wonderful professors, cool colleagues, and a special shout out to the folks at Tiki...
View ArticleThe Education War – Who is winning?
The word “quagmire” gets thrown around pretty casually these days. Civil unrest. “Nation building.” Revolutions. Economic crisis. Natural disasters. The Q-word has been used repeatedly for so many of...
View ArticleHow to Teach about 9/11 – Some Resources
English: World Trade Center, New York, aerial view March 2001. Français : Le World Trade Center à New York. Vue aérienne datant de mars 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Every year, I tell my 9/11 story....
View ArticleBring Back Social Studies – From the Pages of The Atlantic
The beginning of the end: President Bush signing NCLB at Hamilton H.S. in Hamilton, Ohio. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Even if you’ve said it a thousand times, it doesn’t hurt to say it again. Mr. D’s...
View ArticleMachiavelli’s advice to Mayor DeBlasio on his recent education defeat
“…there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” – The Prince, Chapter...
View ArticleDid the Culper Ring get its due? A review of AMC’s “Turn”
From the poster of AMC’s “Turn” In the world of espionage, the best recognition is no recognition at all. The front of the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia...
View ArticleVideos for the Classroom: Disease! from CrashCourse World History
I know that it’s been quite a while since I post anything on here anymore. Let’s just say the multi-headed hydra of life keeps ensnaring me, allowing less and less time to devote to the Neighborhood....
View ArticleWhy Pain is Necessary: A Response to the Proposed NYS Reading Standards
The late great comedian George Carlin mastered exposing the use of language to control society. One of his best routines involved the evolution of the term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He...
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