About a year and a half ago, I wrote about New Jersey’s pilot program for Personalized Student Learning Plans, defined in the New Jersey Administrative Code as “a formalized plan and process that involved students setting learning goals based on personal, academic, and career interests, beginning in the middle school…
Category: Progress
Administrivia
I’m making a bit of a change here on my blog – not a huge one; in fact, a miniscule one, but it’s one I think is important. In the sidebar, I keep a list of the different categories of posts. One of them – Reform – I feel has…
The Purpose of Education
Today’s post is my contribution to an ongoing project organized by purpos/ed, “a non-partisan, location-independent organization aiming to kickstart a debate around the question: What’s the purpose of education?” I am honored to have been invited to contribute my response to this question by purpos/ed co-founder Doug Belshaw. WHAT IS…
Deschooling Education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. –Mark Twain As I continue to try to wrap my head around the concept of formal education and why/how it needs to change, I’ve found it increasingly necessary to go back in history to read the arguments and proposals of…
What’s Worth Knowing?
I just finished reading the classic Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Much like my first time meeting Horace, I found myself energized and inspired by the authors’ commentary on the necessity for making significant changes in the way we educate young people in this country (and not a little incredulous…