response to a blog post by Grant Wiggins. This is a question of perennial concern to parents and educators everywhere. The answers to this question are as varied as the people providing the answers. Grant Wiggins’ recent blog post provided a good starting point to consider before making any specif...

John Wooden began his career in education as a small-town high school English teacher… and went on to become a legendary college basketball coach with an incredible winning record. HOWEVER…a recent biographer noted that Wooden’s approach to coaching never focused on winning. His ap...

Mia Chung writes in the Philadelphia Enquirer convincingly about the importance of music in education. She writes from both personal experience as well as school research. She argues against the tendency of schools to eliminate or minimize the arts in the curriculum when striving to improve students...

Fareed Zakaria has written an extremely articulate column in the Washington Post explaining why America’s fixation on STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – is a dangerous path.  I say this as someone who has spent four years devising a curriculum to teach elementary children how ...