The Edge of Education

Twas the week before Christmas and all though the house everything was in shambles. Too much to do and not enough time. More shopping to […]

My wife called me at school the other day with some frightening news.  Our oldest daughter was in the emergency room with an allergic reaction.   […]

Last week I mentioned an email I’d gotten from a parent looking for answers about how best to overcome some very common adolescent hurdles: “Hi […]

The other day I got an email from a parent (let’s call her Sally) with comments and fears so common that I just had to […]

In 1983 Howard Gardner published a groundbreaking book about intelligence entitled “Frames of Mind.”  In it he challenged the long-held idea that we could definitively […]

In his book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goldman relates an ongoing study tracking valedictorians and salutatorians from the class of 1981.  The study relates that by […]

It’s true.  The class of 2012 has the dubious distinction of having the lowest average SAT scores in forty years.  An anomaly?  No. Last year’s […]

It’s been about eight weeks now since school has started—long enough for teachers to begin to get a handle on what students know and are […]

Loyal readers will remember my last post, in which I shared the marshmallow story.  The key takeaway: self-control is a big deal.  For those who […]

A couple weeks ago, my youngest daughter noticed that one of the pumpkins in our patch had broken free of the vine.  It looked ripe, […]