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Isaac Asimov’s 1964 Predictions about the World in 2014
New York Times - 8/16/64
More On Barnes & Noble’s Revitalization By Localization
Fast Company - 2/28/23
Japan Builds First High School For E-Sports, Finds New Students
New York Times - 2/25/23
Bill Watterson Will Publish A New Book This Year
Guardian - 2/22/23
Research On Libraries And Access To Controversial Content
Brookings - 2/14/23

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The State Of The Union Address: Written By ChatGPT Pretending To Be Famous People
AP News - 2/6/23
Underwater Photographs Of The Year 2023
Underwater Photography - 2/1/23
Analyzing The Data: Is TFA Effective?
Brookings - 1/31/23
Analyzing The Data: Is Summer Learning Loss Real?
Brookings - 1/30/23
On How Successful Bookstores May Be Like Successful Classrooms
New York Times - 1/28/23

“Daunt’s focus has been devolving power to local store managers. A great bookstore, he thinks, is a reflection of the community in which it exists. A Barnes & Noble next to a thriving church needs to be different than one down the street from a high school… “We sort of take three steps forward and then one step back,” Daunt told me. “The forward is my constantly encouraging and pushing for the stores themselves to have the complete freedom to do absolutely whatever they want — how they display their books, price their books, sort their sections, anything. Those freedoms are difficult if you lived in a very straitjacketed world where everything was dictated to you.””
“The Case For Sleepovers”
Atlantic - 1/25/23

“Children can benefit from them for a couple of reasons. For one thing, sleepovers provide an experience, like trick-or-treating, when the power balance between grown-ups and children can shift in the latter’s favor for the simple reason that parents don’t have the stamina to keep up with (or even stay awake for) kids’ antics. Feeling powerful can be energizing and, well, empowering. But an even more potent benefit is the chance to learn deeply from other families. I found it incredibly exciting to be a voyeur in another family’s home. Some families ran a tight ship; others had dishes piled high in the sink. Some parents were fun to talk with; others scared me witless. Some families seemed to be thriving; others were just hanging on. Seeing these differences helped me reflect on my own place in the world.”
What People In 1923 Predicted About 2023
Medium - 1/11/23
The Silicon Valley Of 1000 Years Ago Was In Iraq: The Bayt al Hikmah
The Conversation - 1/8/23
Do The Lascaux Caves Have A Form Of Proto-Writing?
Smithsonian - 1/6/23
“183 Ways The World Got Better In 2022.”
Reasons to be Cheerful - 12/30/22
9 Trends For Fundraising In 2023
Winkler Group - 12/13/22
Most Innovations In Education Aren’t Scalable
Sam Chaltain - 12/12/22
Comedy Wildlife Photography: 2022 Winners
IFL Science - 12/8/22
On Wikipedia, Twitter, And Elon Musk
Vice - 12/8/22
On The Future Of ISTE And ASCD
K12 Dive - 12/5/22
What Is The Fate of The Post-Pandemic City?
New York Times - 11/30/22

“As the pandemic endured and subsequent coronavirus variants prompted employers to postpone return-to-office plans, Van Nieuwerburgh noted, “Covid-induced migration patterns began to take on a more persistent character. Many households transitioned from temporarily renting a suburban home to purchasing a suburban home.”.. In Van Nieuwerburgh’s view — and that of many of his colleagues — what seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.”
Meet Eleonora Pucci, The Duster Of Michelangelo’s David
New York Times - 11/28/22
Google Releases Report On The Future Of Education
THE Journal - 11/28/22

““These reports are not intended to say, ‘this is the exact roadmap of how to do this or what the future is,’” Magiera explained. “These are more about what we are hearing these thought leaders saying from around the world and coalescing around these points, and here's how Google sees our role in it, and here's some exemplars of how it's already happening.”
Combat Video Games Start Including Mental Health?
Wired - 11/26/22
Life Satisfaction Remains Mostly Constant While National Concern Changes [Video]
Professor Galloway - 11/15/22
Do You Need A Political Strategy To Respond To Political Outcomes?
MIT Sloan Management Review - 11/9/22
Thomas Edison Used To Bite His Piano To Hear It In His Head
NPR - 11/5/22
“Script of Every Movie Set in Boston”
New Yorker - 10/25/22
Dungeons And Dragons As Therapy? Role Playing Games Become Counseling
Wired - 10/22/22
“Area Man Is Arrested For Parody. The Onion Files A Supreme Court Brief.”
New York Times - 10/4/22

““Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government?” the brief asked. “This was a surprise to America’s Finest News Source and an uncomfortable learning experience for its editorial team.”… In a filing that read in places like one of its articles, The Onion laid out why it believes the authorities in Ohio had acted unconstitutionally, sprinkling in sincere arguments in defense of parody while riddling the rest of the text with moments of jest and hubris — claiming, for example, a readership of 4.3 trillion, and also boasting that it “owns and operates the majority of the world’s transoceanic shipping lanes.””
Brooks: “The Crisis Of Men And Boys”
New York Times - 9/29/22
Adam Grant Interviews Atul Gawande
TED - 9/27/22
How To Map Any Industry
Steve Blank - 9/20/22
“Tesla And School Innovation” (Part 1 of 4)
Larry Cuban - 9/16/22
“A Better Way To Reclaim Your Time Than ‘Quiet Quitting’”
New York Times - 9/13/22
A Brief Portrait Of Queen Elizabeth II: Numbers And Factoids
Quartz - 9/8/22
On Paul LeBlanc And Competency Based Education
e-Literate - 9/7/22
What Recess Looks Like Around The World
Fatherly - 9/7/22
"How To Have Fun Again”
New York Times - 9/2/22
“What Is School For?” — 12 Guest Essays Answer The Question
New York Times - 9/1/22
“The Pandemic Erased 2 Decades Of Progress In Math And Reading”
The 74 Million - 9/1/22
Companies Have A User Experience Lead, Should Schools Have A Student Experience Lead?
Intrepid News - 8/31/22
On Balancing Faith, Reason, And Technology
Wired - 8/28/22
“No More Paywalls For Public Research” - Great News
The Verge - 8/26/22
Data Viz: Social Network Graphs Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe
LA Data Viz - 8/24/22
How To Help Students Develop A Personal Network
EdWeek - 8/23/22
“The Credence Clearwater Revival Revival”
New Yorker - 8/17/22
The Microsoft Excel World Championships Is Beyond Your Imagination
Tech Radar - 8/11/22

“Over the weekend, ESPN broadcast a replay of a recent esports event that saw the world’s most advanced Microsoft Excel users go head-to-head in a knockout tournament.”
On The Difference Between Complicated And Complex Problems
Larry Cuban - 8/11/22
“Doing A Little Word Puzzle As The World Burns”
Nieman Lab - 8/10/22

“I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning.”
The Principles Of Clowning
Funny How - 8/8/22
“What’s Wrong With Having Competitive Kids?”
New York Times - 7/27/22
Brooks: “Is Life A Story Or A Game?”
New York Times - 7/21/22
An Interactive Close Reading Of The Rings Of A Tree
New York Times - 7/20/22
How Long Will It Take To Recover From Pandemic Learning Loss?
New York Times - 7/19/22
"In Praise Of Pointless Goals”
Atlantic - 7/9/22
On Digitization: “What Gets Lost When Books Go Off-Site and Online”
The Walrus - 7/8/22
“Marcel The Shell With Shoes On” Has A Full Length Movie
Literary Hub - 7/1/22
Audubon Announces Its 2022 Photography Award Winners
Audobon - 7/1/22
Absurd Trolley Problems: Visualized, Expanded, And Interactive
Neal.Fun - 7/1/22
“A Brief History Of TED Talks”
Quartz - 6/22/22
Iconic Infographic About The World’s Mountains and Lakes
Visual Capitalist - 6/18/22
An Oral History Of Pandemic Year 3: “Next Year Will Be A Better Year”
Hechinger Report - 6/15/22

“Going into next year our focus is really about providing stability to our kids, some sense of routine, some sense of normalcy.”
Audrey Watters Steps Away From EdTech, Ending An Era.
Hack Education - 6/15/22
“Six Forces That Fuel Friendships”
Atlantic - 6/10/22
New Tool Shows Planetary Change Through Google Earth
Fast Company - 6/9/22
Students Value Free Speech More, But Feel Less Safe Speaking
Inside Higher Ed - 6/2/22
Prince Louis At The Platinum Jubilee Inspires Some Excellent Memes
New York Post - 6/2/22
On What Makes Us Happy (It Isn’t Wealth)
New York Times - 5/14/22

“Big data tells us there are very simple things that do make people happy, things that have been around for thousands of years. After reading all the studies on happiness, I concluded that modern happiness research could be summed up in one sentence, a sentence we might jokingly call the data-driven answer to life…”
How To Quit Helicopter Parenting
Atlantic - 5/10/22
A History Of The Index
New York Times - 2/15/22
Community: On The Importance Of Presence In “Middle Ring” Relationships
National Association of Episcopal Schools - 1/10/22

“School is by its nature one of those middle rings, a place where we intermingle with difference. For many of our families today, school stands alone as the one existing, operative middle ring in their lives. Little wonder, then, that families approach school with intense expectations, along with fears. As much as some may wish that this middle ring institution would reflect more of the like-mindedness of the other two rings in their lives, it is, as Newman reminds us, in the very DNA of school to be a place where there is difference. The fact that our schools have become, particularly over this past year, battlegrounds for the culture wars is a bold reflection of just how few middle ring environments exist in our society today, as well as how unfamiliar we all are with the nature of these places when we enter into them.”
Comedy Wildlife Photography: 2021 Winners
Comedy Wildlife - 11/16/21
Information Disorder: How To Address Culture-Wide Misinformation
Nieman Lab - 11/15/21
“Beyond Red Vs. Blue: The Political Typology”
Pew Research - 11/9/21
Pfizer And Merck Now Have Pills For COVID Treatment
New York Times - 11/5/21
“Pediatric Vaccines: Top 8 Parental Concerns Answered” {PDF}
Your Local Epidemiologist - 10/28/21
A Dorm In Which 96% Of The Rooms Have No Windows
Independent - 10/28/21
On Virtual Travel Vs. Real World Travel
Psyche - 10/27/21
“Ian McGilChrist On The Coincidence Of Opposites” (Debate)
Austin Kleon - 10/26/21
Fly A Helicopter Without Being A Pilot, Really
New York Times - 10/25/21
On Using A Paper Planner Instead Of A Digital One
ADDitude - 10/18/21
The Catherine Project: A Great Books/Deep Study Program At No Cost
Catherine Project - 10/15/21
The Extraordinary Story Of The Boy Who Wasn’t Anakin Skywalker
New York Times - 9/28/21
Video Game Soundtracks Gain Credibility In The Concert Hall
New York Times - 9/24/21
Simple, Fun, Excellent Game For Teaching All Ages About Politics And Economics
Bored Panda - 9/13/21
On Fidgeting
Thinking Outside The Brain - 9/11/21
Some Approaches To Keeping Kids Digitally Organized
ADDitude - 9/8/21
Visual Timeline Of The Events Of 9/11/01
Visual Capitalist - 9/8/21
“Can Twitter Legally Bar Trump? The First Amendment Says Yes”
New York Times - 9/1/21
“Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the Host of Jeopardy Matters”
Hollywood Reporter - 8/25/21

“This is especially important considering the assault against intelligence and critical thinking the country has faced in recent years. The introduction of the scientific method in the 17th century lifted humanity out of the fetid and superstitious Dark Ages into the bright and vibrant Age of Enlightenment. The simple idea that we objectively gather verifiable evidence before reaching conclusions is the infrastructure of our civilization, both in our scientific achievements and social advancements. It’s the basis of our legal code and our moral code.”
Books About Rationality Suddenly Abound
New Yorker - 8/23/21
“UVA ‘Disenrolls’ 238 Students Who Did Not Get Vaccinated”
Diane Ravitch - 8/22/21
The 50 Pop Singers With The Biggest Vocabularies
Digg - 8/3/21
Wide Ranging Reflections On Listening
EdSurge - 8/2/21
More Questions For Kids Of All Ages
ASCD - 8/1/21
Malcolm Gladwell Deconstructs The U.S. News Rankings
New York Times - 7/6/21
“What Is Sedition?”
New York Times - 7/1/21
“19 [More] Ways To Talk With Your Kids About The Capitol Attack”
History Tech - 7/1/21
Questions For Kids Of Different Ages: 2-7, 8-12, Teens
Common Sense Media - 7/1/21
James Wood On Beethoven
London Review Of Books - 7/1/21
Try Chocolate For Breakfast
Boston Globe - 6/24/21
Architectural Guide To Sub-Saharan Africa
Fast Company - 6/3/21
Activity: “What Are Your Reactions To The Storming Of The Capital?”
New York Times - 6/1/21
One Teacher Offer Options: “Tomorrow Is Not Simply Another Day”
Kylene Beers - 6/1/21
Wikipedia Entry For 2021 Storming Of The United States Capitol
Wikipedia - 6/1/21
Three Activities For Engaging The Attack On The Capitol (With Photos And Video)
PBS Newshour - 6/1/21
Principles And Practices For Discussing The Attack On The Capitol
Beyond The Stoplight - 6/1/21
How To Engage Students With The Attack On The Capitol
Facing History And Ourselves - 6/1/21
Very Funny Passport Photos
Max Siedentopf - 6/1/21
Track A Raindrop From Anywhere In The US To The Sea
Kottke - 5/24/21
“The Mystery Of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick”
New York Times - 5/23/21
“Long Slide Looms For World Population With Sweeping Ramifications”
New York Times - 5/22/21
"Colleges Face Reckoning As Plummeting Birthrate Worsens Enrollment Declines”
Hechinger Report - 5/22/21
“Your Friend Doesn’t Want The Vaccine. What Do You Say?” A Chatbot Game.
New York Times - 5/20/21
"You Are A Network”
Aeon - 5/18/21

“How do you self-identify? You probably have many aspects to yourself and would resist being reduced to or stereotyped as any one of them.”
A Humorous Look At Untouchable, Enormous Endowments
McSweeney’s - 5/15/21
“‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age Of Misinformation”
New York Times - 5/7/21
Harvard Joins Universities Requiring COVID Vaccination For The Fall
Harvard Magazine - 5/5/21
7 Ways To Move From Languishing To Flourishing
New York Times - 5/4/21
Microsoft To Change Its Default Font From Calibri
Wired - 5/1/21
Scott Galloway On The Economics Of Higher Ed
Professor Galloway - 4/30/21
How Well Can Magnus Carlsen Identify Chess Positions? Very Well.
Twitter - 4/29/21
Maybe Taking Notes By Hand Doesn’t Make Much Of A Difference After All
EdSurge - 4/27/21

“Miller is quick to note that the authors of the original study did nothing wrong, and that it is typical for small studies to have findings that turn out to be “fragile” when submitted to follow-up studies. As she notes: “All this back and forth is good social science, but from a practical standpoint it leads to one fairly glaring conclusion: If the supposed advantage of handwriting is flaky enough, or simply small enough, not to reliably show up across studies, we probably shouldn't be remaking our classroom policies because of it.””
“I’m Not Languishing, I’m Dormant”
Austin Kleon - 4/26/21
Visual Arts Students Design Post-Pandemic New Yorker Covers
Kottke - 4/26/21
Pandemic Learning Loss? Some, But Not Much.
EdWeek - 4/22/21
“Alternative Teaching Modalities In Hell” [Humor]
McSweeney’s - 4/19/21

“In addition to synchronous, asynchronous, blended, and hybrid online courses, faculty are encouraged to adapt the following face-to-face modalities to promote student retention, community cohesion, and the joyful spirit of learning in Hell.”
“There’s A Name For The Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing”
New York Times - 4/19/21
“Making Music Visible: Singing In Sign [Language]”
New York Times - 4/9/21
New World Record For Classical Music Played On Wine Glasses By A Toy Train
YouTube - 4/5/21
Six Tips For A Successful Summer School Program
Chalkbeat - 3/30/21
Michael Sandel And The Inadequacy Of Meritocracy
Sydney Review of Books - 3/22/21

“For Sandel, and for others in the communitarian tradition, even social liberalism concedes too much to its classical progenitor, reproducing liberalism’s principal error (which is also, historically, its greatest strength) – its emphasis on the individual. For Sandel, our sociality is prior to our individuality, and the way we view work should reflect that fact. Work is not merely a means to an end; it is an irreducible aspect of our humanity in that it allows us to meet what he describes as ‘the fundamental human need to be needed’.”
Inmate Studies Math, Ten Years Later, Publishes In Academic Journal
Popular Mechanics - 2/21/21

“But math helped Havens feel like he was in control. There are rules, but they’re logical and consistent across disciplines. And unlike prison, even when Havens understands the basic workings of a problem, the end result is often a surprise. Math, in many ways, is the perfect antidote to incarceration—and more incarcerated people than we realize are likely engaging in math-as- escapism.”
What Is The Timeline To Herd Immunity?
New York Times - 2/20/21
How A Great Teacher Can Change A Student’s Life
New York Times - 2/15/21
Vaccines For Kids Won’t Be Available Before Mid-Summer
New York Times - 2/12/21
On Stan Lee: “Who Really Created The Marvel Universe?”
New Yorker - 2/8/21
XKCD Explains How mRNA Vaccines Work (With Star Wars References)
xkcd - 2/1/21
“Silence As Ear Cleaning”
Austin Kleon - 1/28/21
“High School Theater Bingo”
McSweeney’s - 1/26/21
Cartoons About School Life In The New Normal
Larry Cuban - 1/23/21
Three Questions To Make Your Day Happier And More Productive
Harvard Business Review - 1/22/21

“I will let go of… I am grateful for… I will focus on…”
An Oral History Of Wikipedia
One Zero - 1/14/21
An Updated Media Bias Chart
Ad Fontes Media - 1/1/21
Kirby Ferguson Had A Banner Year Debunking Conspiracy Theories
This is Not A Conspiracy Theory - 12/22/20

“2020 was nobody’s favorite year and yet, it was a good year for my endeavors. In a surreal plot twist, the near-decade of work I’ve been doing in conspiracy culture suddenly became highly relevant. The bizarre claims and reasoning I’ve been neck-deep in for years emerged as a dominant force in American culture. I was ready to contribute to the conversation, I did, and I’ve still got plenty more to say. Here’s everything I produced this year. I think some of my very best work is in this lot.”
Garry Kasparov On Chess, Music, Computers, And Creativity
New York Times - 12/18/20

“A machine can learn rules, whether it’s chess or music. Offered a variety of options, it can eventually come up with something. But creativity has a human quality: It accepts the notion of failure. The way machines approach a problem is always about the bottom line: “This move is good because it offers the best return.” But creative beauty is not to go against the rules, but beyond the known pattern.”
“Explaining The Pandemic To My Past Self” — Now In 4 Parts, Both Funny And Moving
YouTube - 12/17/20
“Who Do We Spend Time With Across Our Lifetime?”
Our World In Data - 12/11/20
Fauci On A Timeline For Returning To Normal
Harvard Gazette - 12/10/20

““Let’s say we get 75 percent, 80 percent of the population vaccinated,” Fauci said. “If we do that, if we do it efficiently enough over the second quarter of 2021, by the time we get to the end of the summer, i.e., the third quarter, we may actually have enough herd immunity protecting our society that as we get to the end of 2021, we can approach very much some degree of normality that is close to where we were before.””
"Is ‘Natural Immunity’ From COVID Better Than A Vaccine”
New York Times - 12/5/20
On Having A Piano In The House
Austin Kleon - 12/2/20
How To Make A LEGO Zoom Avatar
Twitter - 11/12/20
A Song To Remind Us To “Keep Going On”
YouTube - 10/19/20
How Catastrophes Have Shaped The Modern City
Atlantic - 10/1/20

“Calamity forces people to ask fundamental questions: What is a community for? How is it put together? What are its basic needs? How should we provide them?”
Behrouz Boochani: From Iran To Australia, A Story Of Migration And Detention
New York Times - 8/4/20

“All the men had started out together in the shared misery of detention, but then Boochani did something extraordinary: Letter by letter, pecked out on contraband telephones while locked up on Manus, he wrote his first book.”
On Why Perceptions Of Crime Rates Don’t Match Actual Crime Rates
FiveThirtyEight - 8/3/20

“The biggest challenge really, and we’re seeing this as a society across the board right now, is that even though our organizations, our businesses, our government entities are becoming more data driven, we as human beings are not.”
“How To (Actually) Change Someone’s Mind”
Harvard Business Review - 7/31/20
On The Pressures Of Being A Teacher In COVID Times
McSweeney’s - 7/31/20
The Vocal Ranges Of The World’s Greatest Singers, Visualized
Concert Hotels - 7/25/20
“Older Children Spread The Coronavirus Just As Much As Adults”
New York Times - 7/18/20
How Support Networks Are The Key To Remote Learning Success
The 74 Million - 7/14/20
A Long List Of Tips To Help You Sleep
Medium - 7/3/20
When Would 133 Epidemiologists Send Their Kids Back To School?
New York Times - 6/12/20
511 Epidemiologists Surveyed On When They Expect To Do [Thing]
New York Times - 6/8/20
“How To Celebrate Your Graduation [Online]”
New York Times - 6/3/20
“How Educators Are Showing Up For Black Students Following Protests”
EdWeek - 6/1/20
More Data On The Growing Number Of Gap Year Students
Bloomberg - 5/15/20
Ways To Find Social Purpose When In Lockdown
Greater Good - 5/12/20
Jill Lepore: A Brief History Of Sesame Street
New Yorker - 5/11/20

“A recent study… looking at longer-term outcomes described “Sesame Street” as “the first mooc.” But that description sells the show short; massive open online courses, like other kinds of “remote teaching,” are mainly an educational catastrophe… The story was different with “Sesame Street.” For kids who were under six in 1969, watching “Sesame Street” had a measurable effect on what is known as “grade for age” status: they entered school at grade level, and, in elementary school, they stayed on grade level.”
Is The COVID-19 Pandemic A Black Swan? Maybe Not.
Quartz - 5/6/20
“16% Of High School Seniors Say They Will Take A Gap Year”
Hechinger Report - 5/5/20
Child Abuse Cases Climbed 22% During March
NPR - 4/28/20
United States Corona Corps, A Gap Year For Fighting A Virus
Professor Galloway - 4/24/20

“The Corps would be trained in modern handheld technologies that provide facile, crisp communication and organization skills that arrest geometric spread. In addition, Corps members could become apprentices for jobs in key parts of the supply chain we now deem essential (delivery, warehouse workers, etc.). We send young people to the front lines of wars not because they are immune from bullets, but because they are willing, see enlisting as an opportunity, and want to serve something bigger than themselves. With an ageist Covid-19, the Corps would be a fighting force with powers of defense no other cohort has.”
Yuval Noah Harari: “Will Coronavirus Change Our Attitudes To Death?”
Guardian - 4/20/20
Trend Magazine Does An Issue On Lifelong Learning
Pew Trusts - 4/13/20
How The Virus Transformed The Way Americans Spend Their Money
New York Times - 4/11/20
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Ventilators
Quartz - 4/9/20
“High School Choirs Improvise In The Age Of Coronavirus”
KQED - 4/6/20
How The “Dies Irae” Melody Has Lived On Over Time
Quartz - 4/3/20
Excellent Information On Student And Parent Sentiments During School Closures
Gallup - 4/2/20
College Student Reflections On Not Having Graduation
KQED - 4/1/20
King Abdullah II On The International Effort Needed At This Time
King Abdullah - 3/31/20
“Getty Museum Asks People In Self-Isolation To Recreate Classic Artworks”
Design Boom - 3/30/20
“10 Tips to Support Students in a Stressful Shift to Online Learning”
Chronicle of Higher Education - 3/30/20
Netflix Party — Watching Show Online Together, Apart
Netflix - 3/29/20
Samuel Pepys “Blogging The Great Plague Of 1665”
Lapham’s Quarterly - 3/27/20
Reflections From “The Biggest Distance Learning Experiment In History”
KQED - 3/26/20
Video That Shows How One Beach Gathering In Florida Spreads Around The US
Twitter - 3/26/20
Video Visualization Of How Air Spreads With Different Kinds Of Coughs
YouTube - 3/21/20
Video That Demonstrates Why Proper Handwashing Works [Fixed Link]
Twitter - 3/19/20
“The Great Empty”: Photos Of Empty Cities
New York Times - 3/18/20
COVID-19: “Effective Immediately: We Are Closing Our Homeschool” [Humor]
McSweeney’s - 3/18/20
Video Showing How Germs Spread From Your Hands
YouTube - 3/18/20
COVID-19: Students In Japan Design A Minecraft Graduation
GamesRadar - 3/16/20
On Building A No-Budget Harry Potter Escape Room In Your Library
Programming Librarian - 3/6/20
Horizon Report: Emerging Trends in Education and Tech (2020)
Educause - 3/2/20
“Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain”
Smithsonian - 2/25/20
Dave Eggers On His Whimsical, Tech-Free Tutoring Nonprofit For Kids
EdSurge - 2/25/20
An Interview With An Author Of A Book About Friendship
KQED - 2/23/20
On the Role Of Chief Design Officer
Fast Company - 2/19/20
In Praise Of Wikipedia: “The Last Best Place On The Internet”
Wired - 2/17/20
Family And Community: The Quality And Quantity Of Relationships Matter
Brookings - 2/12/20
4 Tips For Good Storytelling About Your Data
MIT Sloan Management Review - 2/10/20
How Field Of View Affects Your Perception Of Speed
Digg - 2/5/20
Should Students Join Your School Board?
Independent School Magazine - 2/1/20
Tom Hanks’ Golden Globe Speech, And What Leads To Success
Inc. - 1/6/20
The Architecture In Antarctica Is Extraordinary
New York Times - 1/6/20
The Making Of “Maiden”: The Documentary Of The All Female Sailing Team
LA Times - 1/3/20
On Having Good Conversations
Quartz - 1/2/20
What Is Monoculture In The Digital Age? Will It Survive The Algorithm?
Vox - 12/17/19
On (Unsuccessful) Efforts By One District To Prevent Summer Slide
Daily Gazette - 12/15/19
“Is This Chess Piece Unearthed in Jordan the World’s Oldest?”
Smithsonian - 12/2/19
A Collection Of Obsessive Morning Routines
Atlantic - 12/2/19
A Beautiful Examination Of Modern Origami
New York Times - 11/22/19

“The goal is to arrive at the most efficient and elegant means of achieving a particular effect. “I want the result to be complex, but I want to simplify the process it takes to get there,” Dr. Ku said. “It reminds me of the quote in ‘Amadeus’: ‘There are simply too many notes.’”
“Young Adults Favor Experience Over Degrees For Job Prep”
Education Dive - 11/19/19

“Although many teens and young adults say there are payoffs to attending college, slightly more (73%) say on-the-job experience is "a good way to prepare for success" in the workforce compared to degrees or other educational experiences.”
“Graduates Value Degrees And Courses Relevant To Their Jobs”
Education Dive - 11/18/19

“Students tend to see more value in their postsecondary education when it features coursework relevant to their jobs.”
“The Most Popular Wikipedia Pages, 2007-2019”
Visual Capitalist - 11/16/19
“Emerging Trends In K-12 Education” - A Study By Google
Google - 11/15/19

“This report is part of a series on the evolution of K-12 education, mapping out current and emerging trends in classroom education.”
Advice On Putting Together A Resume
Inc. - 11/15/19
Move Over, Black Friday: China’s “Singles’ Day” Smashes Sales Records
Business Insider - 11/12/19
On Repairing Harm: An Element Of Restorative Justice
Cult of Pedagogy - 11/10/19
On The Benefits Of Having Some Alone Time
New York Times - 10/28/19
Understanding Halloween In Schools, A Socio-Religious Perspective
Education Dive - 10/24/19
“J. S. Bach The Rebel: The Subversive Practice Of A Canonical Composer”
Lapham’s Quarterly - 10/16/19

“I’ve talked to people who feel they know Bach very well, but they aren’t aware of the time he was imprisoned for a month. They never learned about Bach pulling a knife on a fellow musician during a street fight. They never heard about his drinking exploits—on one two-week trip he billed the church eighteen gorchsen for beer, enough to purchase eight gallons of it at retail prices—or that his contract with the Duke of Saxony included a provision for tax-free beer from the castle brewery; or that he was accused of consorting with an unknown, unmarried woman in the organ loft; or had a reputation for ignoring assigned duties without explanation or apology.”
On How Incremental, Consistent Steps Lead To Success
Inc. - 10/16/19
On When — And Whether — To Believe Education Researchers
Daniel Willingham - 10/13/19

“When I get an electrician to figure out why the breaker in my living room keeps flipping, I understand she may be more or less skillful in diagnosis and repair than another licensed electrician. What I don’t expect is that she could have wildly different—perhaps completely opposing—ideas about how electricity works and how to wire a house compared to someone else I might have called.”
How Russian Trolls Use Social Media To Foster Conflict On All Sides
Dallas News - 10/8/19
Pursue A Hobby Different From Your Work. It Can Help You At Work.
British Psychological Society - 10/7/19

“The researchers found that when participants spent longer than normal doing their leisure activity, their belief in their ability to perform their job increased. But this was only the case when they had a serious hobby that was dissimilar to their job, or when their hobby was similar to their work but they only did it casually. When their hobby was both serious and similar to their job, then spending more time on it actually had a detrimental effect, decreasing their self-efficacy.”
Everything You Need To Know About Flu Season
Medium - 10/7/19

“An extremely thorough guide.”
“School Districts Vow To Sue Juul Over Student Vaping”
EdWeek - 10/3/19
On Rising Tuition, And How One School “Reset” Its Tuition
Hechinger Report - 10/2/19
How Americans Perceive Success
Gallup - 10/2/19
“Professor Minerva McGonagall’s Letter To The Tenure Committee”
McSweeney’s - 10/1/19
On Doing Nothing In A Time of Cognitive Clutter
Guardian - 9/27/19
“Students At High-Achieving Schools Now Named ‘At-Risk’ Group”
Washington Post - 9/26/19
More On The Strange And Fascinating Idea Of Plant Intelligence
The Paris Review - 9/26/19
An Interactive Map Of Educational Performance In The US
Education Opportunity Project - 9/23/19
On Patreon, Jack Conte, And Surviving In Creative And Tech Work
Wired - 9/19/19
“How To Help Your Child Succeed At School”
New York Times - 9/18/19
OECD Releases Education At A Glance, 2019
Inside Higher Ed - 9/11/19
“Why Play Needs A Comeback”
KQED - 9/3/19
Do Literary Prizes Influence Book Sales (Even Nominations)?
Public Books - 9/3/19
A Profile Of Malcolm Gladwell
New York Times - 8/30/19
Starbucks Releases Its Brand Guidelines [Interactive]
Starbucks - 8/26/19

“Functional vs. expressive copy: Functional means helpful—it organizes things in a clear way and anticipates our audience’s needs, helping customers have an easy, enjoyable experience in-store and online. Used primarily for wayfinding and ordering, this copy is so seamlessly integrated that it calls attention to the product—not itself. Functional doesn’t mean sterile; it means clear… Expressive copy is where our brand personality unfurls with day-making thoughts. We use expressive moments on focal products to present a product truth in a fresh, relevant, interesting way. When we have the space, we tell a passionate coffee story. But even with just a few words, our copy can make you smile—always taking into account where our audience is interacting with us—and making every word count.”
How Do We Define A More Meaningful Life? A Psychologist Tries.
Scientific American - 8/21/19
On The Need For Free Play For Children
New York Times - 8/17/19
A History Of The Wiffle Ball
Smithsonian - 8/14/19
“Thinking Realistically About Disaster Risk”
Behavioral Scientist - 8/11/19
How Decision Trees Can Help Solve Problems And Make Decisions
Quartz - 8/7/19
Wingsuit BASE Jumping Matures A Litte
National Geographic - 8/7/19
Reflections On Talking With Kids About Violent Attacks In The News
NPR - 8/6/19
I’ve Never Seen A Spreadsheet (Google Sheets) Look So Unlike A Spreadsheet
Twitter - 8/5/19
Moving To “A Better Address Can Change A Child’s Future”
New York Times - 8/3/19
“Libraries Can Have 3-D Printers, But They Are Still About Books”
The Conversation - 8/2/19
Vander Ark Offers Four Emerging Trends In Education
Forbes - 8/1/19
How European Nations Combat Misinformation
Brookings - 7/31/19
How The Original Moon Landing Tapes Were In An Old Intern’s Basement
Inc. - 7/24/19
Largest Launch Ever: Will An Apple (The Fruit!) Disrupt An Industry?
California Sunday - 7/18/19
Wikipedia: The Last Internet (Imperfect) Utopia?
Quartz - 7/16/19
Amazon Plans To Retrain 300,000 Of Its Workers Because Of Automation
New York Times - 7/11/19
“The Fascinating Science Of How Trees Communicate, Animated”
Brain Pickings - 7/10/19
AltSchool Pivots
Larry Cuban - 7/8/19
“The Pianist And The Lobster” - An Extraordinary Errol Morris / NYT Multimedia Collaboration
New York Times - 6/21/19

“One of the world’s greatest pianists takes the stage. He panics. Where is the plastic lobster? He doesn’t know. He only knows he can’t play without it.”
If You're Going To Do Restorative Justice, Do It Right
EdWeek - 6/13/19
A Short History Of Ampersands
Quartz - 6/12/19

"It began life as a shortcut for scribes and proved just as useful for early typesetters, eventually working its way into the English alphabet as the 27th letter. We collectively dropped it from the ABCs, and the decline of handwriting and manual typesetting made it less useful. But its flexibility and grace have kept it on our business cards and movie posters.”
2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest Winners
National Geographic - 6/12/19
An Oral History Of The Fender Stratocaster
Guitar - 6/11/19
"The Restaurant Owner Who Asked For 1-Star Yelp Reviews”
The Hustle - 6/9/19
Adversarial Interoperability: One Way To Work With Enemies
Boing Boing - 6/7/19
4 Tips For Rejuvenating Yourself During The Summer
EdWeek - 6/5/19
National Spelling Bee Has 8 — Count Them 8 — Co-Champions
New York Times - 5/31/19
"Let's Hear It For The Average Child”
New York Times - 5/31/19

“To the student who does all the homework in his hardest subject and turns it in promptly… For the rest of your life, you will never again think of this C, but you’ll bring your character and your capacity for hard work to all your future endeavors.”
On The Persistence Of The School-As-Factory Metaphor
Larry Cuban - 5/28/19
Tim Cook’s Graduation Speech At Tulane
YouTube - 5/20/19
On Asking For Specificity When Talking About “Transforming” Learning
Larry Cuban - 5/17/19
Schools Enlist Students To Work On IT Tech Support
AP News - 5/10/19
“The World In 2030: Nine Megatrends To Watch”
MIT Sloan Management Review - 5/7/19
On The Challenges Of Implementing Restorative Justice Models
Hechinger Report - 5/6/19
How Amazon Prime Changed The Way People Shop
Vox - 5/3/19
A Salad-Making Companies Calls Itself A Tech Company. Wait, What?
Inc. - 5/1/19
Revisiting Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs. Is It Right?
Quartz - 4/19/19
Historical Figures With Modern Haircuts. Fascinating.
Digg - 4/18/19
LeBron James’ School In Ohio Is Showing Promise
New York Times - 4/12/19
“More Search, Less Feed” — On Being Driven By Goals, Not Stimulus
Austin Kleon - 4/4/19
NYT Fashion Critic Reflects On The Future Of Leggings
New York Times - 4/4/19
A Comic Strip Approach To How Five “Why”s Get To The Heart Of Things
The Design Team - 3/31/19
Visualization Of When Leaves First Appear In Each State
New York Times - 3/28/19
George Siemens On Networks Versus Systems
LinkedIn - 3/26/19
Are Trigger Warnings Helpful? New Study Suggests: No.
Pacific Standard - 3/25/19
On Snowplow Parenting
New York Times - 3/16/19

“Snowplowing has gone so far, they say, that many young people are in crisis, lacking these problem-solving skills and experiencing record rates of anxiety. There are now classes to teach children to practice failing, at college campuses around the country and even for preschoolers."
What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Finding Truth In Polarized Times
Nautilus - 3/14/19
Why And How Hobbies Help You Professionally
JotForm - 3/13/19
Should Schools Teach Poker? A Cognitive Science Writer Says Yes
EdSurge - 3/11/19
"Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory”
Inside Higher Ed - 3/5/19
Stories From The People Who Do “Trust And Safety” For Major Apps
Medium - 2/27/19
“40 Incredibly Useful Things You Didn’t Know Google Search Could Do”
Fast Company - 2/25/19
A New Presidential Library, Without A Library
New York Times - 2/20/19
From Tragedy To Techno: The Strange Journey Of Adagio For Strings
NPR - 2/13/19
How One Middle School Is Using Chess To Galvanize And Teach Kids
Chalkbeat - 2/8/19
A Moving Story Of The Online Gaming Life Of A Disabled Young Man
BBC - 2/7/19
“Is Teaching An Art Of A Science?” Here’s One Take.
EdSurge - 2/5/19
Debriefing The Covington Catholic Story: A Media Lesson
New Yorker - 1/25/19

“The Covington saga isn’t fake news, strictly speaking. The events on the Mall really happened; what’s more, the surrounding story raises many questions of broad, genuine interest… It would be wrong, however, to take the moral interest of the Covington video at face value. To the extent that the video raises interesting questions, it does so in a particular way… The media theorist who best described this problem is Daniel Boorstin, whose book “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America,” from 1962, traces the inner logic of artificially generated newsworthiness. A “pseudo-event,” in Boorstin’s telling, is any happening that exists primarily so that it can be reported upon and debated.”
Independent School Enrollment Is Increasingly Uncertain
Westport News - 1/24/19

“There are 46 independent schools in the state with about 17,900 students this school year, as compared to 57 schools and about 22,700 students in the 2006-07 school year, according to the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools… Nearly half of the 939 independent schools examined in a national study lost students between 2006-07 to 2013-14, according to the National Association of Independent Schools. The rest grew in enrollment.”
A Deep Dive Into Small Talk
Quartz - 1/23/19
Ursula Le Guin On The Ideal Daily Routine
Austin Kleon - 1/23/19
“'Signing Day’ Recognizes High School Seniors Starting Jobs”
MNN - 1/15/19

“The familiar high school rituals take place every spring. Athletes sign letters of intent to play for college programs as their coaches beam with pride, the photographs splashed across social media. Other high school seniors wave college acceptance letters as their names are announced at school assemblies. But one school system in Virginia wanted to celebrate a different life-changing moment for the seniors who were starting careers right after graduation.”
The History And Future Vision Of Tesla, In Five Minutes [Video]
Visual Capitalist - 1/15/19
Do Alumni Networks Actually Help Graduates? Survey Says: Not Much
Gallup - 1/15/19
School Revises Dress Code To Remove Gender-Specific Items
eSchool News - 1/15/19
Tales From Placing Students In Courses That Are Too Hard
Washington Post - 1/11/19
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Nutella
Quartz - 1/8/19
A Wonderful Deep Dive Into Whalesong
New York Times - 1/7/19

“Once their songs reach a certain level of complexity, humpbacks drop that tune entirely and pick up a new, simpler one."
"The Unbearable Heaviness Of Clutter”
New York Times - 1/3/19
On The Revival Of Handwriting
Medium - 1/2/19

“We got so far into digital technology without thinking about how it would feel to let go of this thing that was such a part of people’s lives… It doesn’t feel the same to get an email as it does to open a letter. You see someone’s personality in a handwritten letter. It feels like it’s just for you. And people want that back.”
First Time In 20 Years: Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain
Smithsonian - 1/1/19

“At midnight on New Year’s Eve, all works first published in the United States in 1923 will enter the public domain. It has been 21 years since the last mass expiration of copyright in the U.S.”
Mortality Rates For Different Sports And Leisure Activities [Infographic]
Teton Gravity Research - 12/27/18
A High School Tries Home Visits: Lessons From The Field
Hechinger Report - 12/23/18
50 Pieces Of Good News From 2018, Illustrated
Bored Panda - 12/20/18
Kids Are Making Powerpoint Presentations To Persuade Their Parents
New York Times - 12/20/18
Seattle Schools Push Start Time Back, Students Sleep More, Improve
NPR - 12/12/18
An Excellent Profile Of Edward Gorey And His Eccentric Minimalism
New Yorker - 12/10/18

“If you create something, you’re killing a lot of other things. And the way I write, since I do leave out most of the connections, and very little is pinned down, I feel that I am doing a minimum of damage to other possibilities that might arise in a reader’s mind.”
Highlights From Education Research: 2018
Edutopia - 12/7/18
On The Growing Experience Loneliness In A Connected Time
Quartz - 11/29/18
Dungeons & Dragons Continues Its Improbable Revival
District Administration - 11/28/18
Nat’l Geographics Best Pictures From 2018: A Wondrous World
National Geographic - 11/26/18
School Grows Inside A Museum: First A Middle School, Now A High School
EdWeek - 11/19/18
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Dungeons & Dragons
Quartz - 11/16/18
Your Roommate’s Study Habits Affect Your Grades
Hechinger Report - 11/12/18

“It’s important to clarify that having smart friends isn’t as important as having studious friends in this study. The researchers didn’t find that friends’ grades mattered. What influenced a student’s college grades was his or her friends’ high school study habits.”
Art Institute Of Chicago Has Put 50,000 Hi-Res Images Online
Kottke - 11/9/18
Texas School Awards Letter Jackets For Academic Success
Longview News-Journal - 11/9/18
Browse 100 Innovations At Schools Around The World
Hundred - 11/7/18

“HundrED has selected 100 inspiring innovations that are changing the face of K12 education today.”
"Nearly 1,800 Educators Ran For Office… Here’s Who Won.”
Education Dive - 11/7/18
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Origami
Quartz - 11/2/18
"How Emotions Can Affect The Heart”
New York Times - 10/30/18

“Though not widely appreciated at the time, studies now show that stress and despair can significantly influence health, especially that of the heart.”
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Dr. Bronner’s Soap
Quartz - 10/23/18
“The Power of Evening Routines”
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 10/22/18
Daniel Radcliffe Fact Checks With The New Yorker While Playing A Fact Checker
New Yorker - 10/15/18
On The Proliferation Of Low-Cost Private Schools In Poor Countries
Bright - 10/9/18
On The Value Of Cultivating Hobbies, Or “Serious Leisure” Interests
Harvard Business Review - 10/8/18
"Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s”
New York Times - 10/6/18
Audrey Watters: Why It’s Important To Know Education History
Hack Education - 10/2/18
Maps Of Magical And Literary Places
Guardian - 9/22/18
Grade Inflation: Does It Advantage The Privileged?
Quartz - 9/20/18
“The Arc Of Progressivism In Schools (Part 3)”
Larry Cuban - 9/16/18

“In essence, these independent findings showed that the progressive ideas inherent in the new curriculum were little used, with improvements in teaching being predominantly within a formalistic rather than a progressive approach. The implication was that ‘policymakers should work with rather than against educational realities’…”
High School SCOTUS: Why A HS Junior Started Covering The Supreme Court
NPR - 9/16/18
A Deep, Excellent Reflection On Free Speech, The Media, And Trolls
Data & Society - 9/14/18

“While [Judge] Brandeis believed that anyone had the right to express their views, he did not believe that anyone had the right to be amplified… The media landscape has changed significantly over the last 86 years, but the nuance in Brandeis’ arguments lives on. Brandeis recognized that the key to sustaining a commitment to free speech is to have a rich understanding of how people can abuse their power or manipulate the system to control what others hear. He also recognized that as the media landscape changed, so must our approach in enabling the First Amendment.”
“The Arc Of Progressivism In Schools (Part 2)”
Larry Cuban - 9/13/18
“It’s Never Too Late For Your Career To Peak”
Fast Company - 9/12/18
“The Arc Of Progressivism In Schools (Part 1)”
Larry Cuban - 9/10/18
Can A Country Build An Entirely New Capital? Egypt Is Planning It.
Independent - 9/10/18

“The new administrative capital, or NAC (so new it doesn’t even have a proper name), is mooted to be the biggest planned city ever, aiming to house 6.5 million people and covering a 270 square metre footprint between the Nile river and the Suez Canal, east of Cairo."
What Are Personality Tests, Really?
New Yorker - 9/10/18
Recommended Questions For Parents To Ask Teachers
Medium - 9/5/18

“I suggested ten questions that parents should ask if they want to get a real sense of what’s happening in their child’s school this year.”
“A Few Principles For Thinking Clearly”
Medium - 9/1/18
Long Term Enrollment Trends In Private Schools
Education Next - 9/1/18
Dress Code Controversies Continuing Across The Country
EdWeek - 8/31/18

“Schools with strict dress codes often claim that such regulations prevent in-class distractions, create a workplace-like environment, reduce pressures based on socioeconomic status, and deter gang activity. However, in an age of #MeToo and easy internet access, controversy is increasingly cropping up over whether excluding students from the classroom for violating dress codes is worthwhile, and whether such rules are disproportionately enforced against girls, and especially those of color.”
LEGO Built A Life-Size, Drivable Bugatti From Its Technic Pieces
Brothers-Brick - 8/30/18
Activist Investing And The Dangers Of Myopic Leadership
New Yorker - 8/28/18

“Some of the most successful businesses to emerge in recent decades have staved off short-term pressures, forcing their investors to be patient with uncertainty and experimentation.”
Select National Education Statistics For The 2018-19 School Year
US Department of Education - 8/28/18
A Private School - Public School Partnership Model
KQED - 8/19/18

"“I don’t see independent schools going anywhere anytime soon,” Slangen said. “But what can we do with what we have now and how might we be able to make an impact, a difference? To be a little bit more equitable, a little bit more accessible, a little bit more of the solution.””
Flossie Lewis, the 94 Year Old Retired Teacher, And Viral Sensation
PBS - 8/17/18

“More than 7 million people viewed teacher Flossie Lewis's Brief but Spectacular take on growing old in 2016. When it aired, her former students contacted us by the dozen, many to express appreciation for the profound impact she had on their lives. Flossie, now 94, returns in this special installment for an inspirational class discussion with some of her biggest fans.”
The 2018 Horizon Report Is Out (Higher Ed Edition)
Educause - 8/16/18
Audrey Watters On The History Of The Horizon Report
Hack Education - 8/16/18
“A Running Tally Of Items… Asked For At The Circulation Desk”
Literary Hub - 8/15/18
“Paradoxes Of Efficiency In Education”
Larry Cuban - 8/12/18
Dungeons And Dragons… In School? An Illustrated Essay.
The Nib - 8/8/18
Struggling Students Spend Spring Break At School To Catch Up
Chalkbeat - 8/7/18
“The Challenge Of A Universal Transcript”
Education Dive - 8/1/18
On The Enduring Quality Of Dungeons And Dragons
LA Times - 7/31/18
Liszt’s “La Campanella” Illuminated
YouTube - 7/30/18
"Private Schools Aren’t Better At Educating Kids Than Public Schools”
Washington Post - 7/26/18

“University of Virginia researchers who looked at data from more than 1,000 students found that all of the advantages supposedly conferred by private education evaporate when socio-demographic characteristics are factored in. There was also no evidence found to suggest that low-income children or children enrolled in urban schools benefit more from private school enrollment.”
"Why Restorative Justice Is About More Than Reducing Suspensions”
KQED - 7/25/18

“The researchers found that the more teachers immersed themselves in restorative practices, the better students rated their relationships with these teachers. And the strong relationships in turn linked to a greater sense of respect between teacher and student and fewer disciplinary referrals. Given these findings, it’s perhaps unsurprising that restorative practices are popular with students. In fact, at least some teens and kids adopt the techniques for their own use.”
Rare Book Thefts! Who’d Have Thought Their Caretakers Would Do It?
Motherboard - 7/23/18
Winners Of The Drone Photography Of The Year Contest
Digg - 7/23/18
“The Big Sing" 2,000 People Sing Together: See The Video
LA Master Chorale - 7/21/18
Do Boston And NYC Exam Schools Make A Difference For College?
Brookings - 7/19/18

“What do the researchers conclude? They find a precisely zero effect of the exam schools on college attendance, college selectivity, and college graduation… The authors note that it is still possible that the schools affect outcomes later in life, such as employment or wealth.”
School Dress Code Evolves After Called Sexist And Gender Binary
District Administration - 7/16/18

““Not a single thing about the school day has changed,” Campbell says. “But we no longer have the little battles over taking off a hat or pulling kids out of class and calling parents because their shorts are too short,” he adds. “Students feel free to be themselves.””
Tuition Free, Entrepreneurship-Focused Boarding School For Underserved Kids
Spokesman - 7/16/18
What Happens When Parents Lobby Against A Course At A School?
Medium - 7/12/18
“The Average Age Of A Successful Startup Founder Is 45”
Harvard Business Review - 7/11/18
The Louvre Offers A Tour Based On Beyonce and Jay-Z’s New Single
Huffington Post - 7/6/18
Create A Font Out Of Your Own Handwriting
Calligraphr - 6/27/18
World Cup: Guess Where The Ball Is In These Pictures
New York Times - 6/26/18
“What Does a Refrigerator's Crisper Drawer Actually Do?”
Core77 - 6/24/18
“Diana King, a Leading Teacher in Overcoming Dyslexia, Dies at 90”
New York Times - 6/22/18
Atul Gawande’s Family Story, And The Next Stage In His Career
Quartz - 6/21/18
Eminem Has A Sign Language Interpreter At Shows
Twitter - 6/21/18
Educators Shouldn’t Just Do What The Research Says
Larry Cuban - 6/17/18

“Research should inform education policy and practice, but it shouldn’t dictate it. Common sense, practical experience, personal relationships, and old-fashioned wisdom have a crucial role to play in determining when and how research can be usefully applied. The researchers who play the most constructive roles are those who understand and embrace that messy truth.”
Reflections On Cultural Appropriation
Tablet - 6/11/18
A Play About Fact-Checking, Starring Daniel Radcliffe
Vulture - 6/6/18
On The History Of: “Two - Four - Six - Eight” Cheers
Slate - 6/4/18
"The Midlife Tuneup”: Eat, Move, Recover, Connect, Maintain
New York Times - 6/4/18

"Whether you are in your 30s, 40s, 50s or beyond, the Well Midlife Tuneup will put you on a healthier path to improving your body, mind and relationships.”
On The History Of: Signing Yearbooks
Atlantic - 6/3/18
How Do You Identify Highly Talented Kids? NYC Considers A Change.
New York Times - 6/2/18
Wil Wheaton On Chronic Depression
Medium - 6/1/18
All The Books Bill Gates Has Recommended Since 2010
Quartz - 5/26/18
“How Living Abroad Helps You Develop A Clearer Sense Of Self”
Harvard Business Review - 5/22/18
Bill Gates Five Book Recommendations For Summer 2018
Gates Notes - 5/21/18
Resources For Talking With Kids About Tragedies Of Violence
NAIS - 5/19/18
A History Of The Role Of Micro-Schools In School Reform
Larry Cuban - 5/17/18
On The Benefits Of “House Systems” In Schools (Like Hogwarts)
KQED - 5/14/18

“The houses are not just a thing you do… It’s really your whole school culture.”
"The Case For Having A Hobby”
New York Times - 5/10/18
Why New England Forests Are Criss-Crossed With Stone Walls
Atlas Obscura - 5/4/18

“The walls weren’t built in the forest but in and around farms. By the middle of the 19th century, New England was over 70 percent deforested by settlers, a rolling landscape of smallholdings as far as the eye could see. But by the end of the century, industrialization and large-scale farms led to thousands of fields being abandoned, to begin a slow process of reforestation.”
Public Spending On Education Is A Better Investment Than Stocks
Economist - 5/3/18
Reflections On Surviving And Thriving In Information Overload
Medium - 5/2/18
Essay-Writing Companies Pay YouTube Stars To Advertise For Them
BBC - 5/1/18
Working One-On-One Really Makes A Difference
Hechinger Report - 4/30/18
Reconsidering “A Nation At Risk”
NPR - 4/29/18
Pictures From NYC, 1978: Travel Back To A Joyful Past
New York Times - 4/27/18
Bloomberg And Weingarten On Teacher Pay
USA Today - 4/27/18
A Charter School Devoted To Cultivating More Involved Citizens
Chalkbeat - 4/19/18
The Resume: A Brief History, Some Questions, And Possible Futures
Quartz - 4/18/18
Details On The Inner Workings Of A High Performing Charter School
Larry Cuban - 4/18/18
What Does It Mean To Think From First Principles?
Farnam Street - 4/14/18
4 College Kids Steal Rare Books From Library, Now It’s A Heist Movie
Melville House - 4/13/18
Another “New” J. R. R. Tolkein Book
Guardian - 4/10/18
Boarding School In Maine Re-examines Model
Bangor Daily News - 4/6/18

“Faced with declining numbers of young Mainers and increased competition for international students, a private Maine high school is making cuts and looking for new ways to market itself…”
"Homework Therapists”?
New York Times - 4/4/18
A Good, Long Discussion Of Design Thinking
Subtraction - 4/2/18
Elements Of Effective Summer Programming
AFT - 3/28/18

"We reviewed a foundational meta-analysis of summer learning programs conducted by researchers as well as evidence from 25 studies of such programs since 2000. The programs covered in our review included voluntary at-home summer reading programs, voluntary classroom-based summer programs, and mandatory summer programs that students must attend to avoid in-grade retention.”
Linda Brown, From Brown v. Board of Education, Dies At 75
New York Times - 3/26/18
Strategies For Quality Summer And Out-Of-School Learning
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 3/22/18
Having The Same Teacher For Two Years Helps Some Students A Lot
Chalkbeat - 3/21/18
“10 Definitions Of Datafication (In Education)”
Code Acts In Ed - 3/17/18
8 Lessons From Visiting Over 200 Schools In 50 States
Washington Post - 3/15/18

“Sixth, I was encouraged to visit districts, and even states, that are transforming their schools — all of their schools. Their leaders bring a compelling message about the urgency of change and lay out aspirational possibilities. They prioritize essential competencies, not state-mandated tests and obsolete curriculum. They trust teachers to lead the way, both in managing classrooms and designing next-generation assessments.”
Educating The Whole Child Requires Ongoing Growth
Vunela - 3/14/18
From The Information Age To The Reputation Age
Aeon - 3/14/18
Why Schools Should Encourage Civil Disobedience, And Also Punish It
The 74 Million - 3/13/18
Is Political Activism (Read: Campus Walkouts) Good For Kids?
New York Times - 3/12/18
What Students Believe About Free Speech
Knight Foundation - 3/12/18
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Legos
Quartz - 3/8/18
Digital Public Library Of America Launches New Website
Digital Public Library of America - 3/8/18
Profile of Donald Glover
New Yorker - 3/5/18
Where Does Each Generation Begin And End (Boomers, X, Millenn…)
Pew Research - 3/1/18
Should “Comfort Dogs” Be In Schools?
KQED - 2/26/18
David Brooks On Politics And The Current College Generation
New York Times - 2/26/18

"I asked them to name the defining challenge of their generation. Several mentioned the decline of the nation-state and the threats to democracy… I asked the students what change agents they had faith in. They almost always mentioned somebody local, decentralized and on the ground — teachers, community organizers.”
Education On (Off-)Broadway: “Five New Plays About School”
New York Times - 2/23/18
13-Year-Old Boy Creates Fake School District For Fun. Gets License.
WSBT - 2/19/18
"Resources For Talking.. About The School Shooting In Florida”
New York Times - 2/15/18
Counseling Resources For Talking With Kids About Shootings
NAIS - 2/15/18
Valentine’s Day Cards From Centuries Past
New York Times - 2/13/18
On Teaching In The Age Of Information
Sense and Sensation - 2/7/18

"With innovation’s unending arrival on our doorstep, I thrill at the access and stimulation that have arrived with it, but I wonder about how we cope with it, about what we learn from it... I wonder, for instance, about schools with metal detectors. I wonder about airports with liquid-free travel and computers with parental controls; and I wonder why, in so many cases like these, we keep putting the training wheels on instead of taking them off.”
Key Words Used By People With Depression
The Conversation - 2/2/18
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Super Bowl Ads
Quartz - 2/2/18
GOA Online Summer Courses Open To Students Everywhere
Global Online Academy - 2/1/18
Do Selective Schools Provide Additional Value?
Taylor & Francis - 1/29/18
Science Leadership Academy: A School And A Conference
Jose Vilson - 1/29/18
Libraries Becoming Sources For Local News
Atlantic - 1/28/18
Infographics With 12 “Ways To Get Smarter” (i.e. Mental Models)
Visual Capitalist - 1/27/18
Everything You Wanted To Know About: Index Cards
Quartz - 1/26/18
Largest Early World Map, Centuries Ahead Of Its Time, Unveiled
Medium - 1/25/18
Is Self-Esteem The Reason Why We Procrastinate?
Medium - 1/23/18
"Fed Up With Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own”
New York Times - 1/18/18
Beautiful Photos From “Inside One Of America’s Last Pencil Factories”
New York Times - 1/12/18
On The Joy And Benefits Of Walking
Brain Pickings - 1/10/18
Marble Chutes, Magnets, And Tchaikovsky, Synchronized [video]
YouTube - 1/9/18
25 Icebreaker Questions
Know Your Company - 1/8/18
Close Reading John Williams’ Score Of Star Wars: The Last Jedi
New Yorker - 1/3/18
#MeTooK12 Brings Sexual Assault Awareness To Schools
EdWeek - 1/2/18
"If Birds Left Tracks In The Sky, They Would Look Like This”
National Geographic - 1/1/18
Watching A Bubble Freeze Is A Sight To Behold
Twitter - 12/30/17
How Different Countries Use Different GIFs To Express Themselves
New York Times - 12/29/17
Audrey Watters On “The Business Of ‘Ed-Tech Trends’”
Hack Education - 12/28/17
On The Importance Of Taking—And Revisiting—Notes
Austin Kleon - 12/15/17
“2017 Education Research Highlights”
Edutopia - 12/14/17
How Three 20-Somethings Shut Down Much Of The Internet
Wired - 12/13/17

"Three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall. What drove them wasn’t anarchist politics or shadowy ties to a nation-state. It was Minecraft.”
Wait, What Is This Bitcoin Thing?
New York Times - 12/8/17
What One Word Mattered Most in 2017? Public Figures Respond
Medium - 12/7/17
The New 7 Wonders Of The World. You Can Visit All Seven.
New York Times - 12/1/17
Will Companies Pay Students For Apprenticeship Education?
Atlantic - 11/21/17
From “Turn on, tune in, drop out” to “Log off, mute all, carry on”
Austin Kleon - 11/17/17
“Professional Scrabble Players Replay Their Greatest Moves” [video]
New Yorker - 11/16/17
How Have Schools Changed In 150 Years? Some Graphs, Insights
EdWeek - 11/16/17
Close Relationships Are Key To Long, Happy Life (That Harvard Study)
Inc. - 11/9/17
“Fantastic Beasts And How To Rank Them” A Surprisingly Long Read
New Yorker - 11/6/17

"Never mind, for now, whether or not you actually believe in any of these creatures. We are interested here not in whether they are real but in to what extent they seem as if they could be… Perhaps, then, the solution we seek is mathematical: tally up all the fundamental principles violated by a supernatural creature and its powers and—voilà, we’ll know where it stands in the hierarchy of likelihood. Call this the parsimony theory of plausibility.”
Teacher Makes Case Against Being Politically Neutral In Class
Bright - 11/3/17

"The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility’s Teachable Moments project provides 10 ways teachers can engage with controversial topics in their classroom. Generally, the strategies mirror recommended pedagogical strategies such as finding out what students already know, making connections to students’ lives and families, and creating space for kids to opt out of conversations that make them uncomfortable.”
Plant Intelligence: It Appears Trees Communicate With Each Other
Quartz - 11/3/17
How To Send Emails To “Very Busy People”
Medium - 11/2/17

“Remember: Can your responses for them. Be ultra-specific in your asks. Do not be a time-suck. Play the long game. Focus on getting a response first before asking for everything that you might want from this person.”
A Helpful Story Of One Parent’s Experience at Teacher Conferences
Kappan - 10/31/17
LA And Houston Public Libraries Trash Talk Via Book Spine Poetry
LAist - 10/31/17
A Homework-Free Weekend For HS Seniors In One District
Washington Post - 10/21/17
Harvard Has A Beatbox Residency
WBUR - 10/19/17
Should Students Join Parent-Teacher Conferences?
Wall Street Journal - 10/17/17
Obsessed With Spreadsheets? This Is For You
Quartz - 10/17/17
On Fads In Education
Inside Higher Ed - 10/11/17

"From transforming all of higher ed to targeted corporate training in five short years. Who could’ve predicted such a fate? Lots of people, it turns out.”
For The Love Of Graph Paper
Quartz - 10/10/17
Visualizations Of Nonlinear Story Formats
Story Explorer - 10/9/17
Some Reflections On Learning From People Vs. Books
LinkedIn - 10/7/17
People Draw Iconic Logos From Memory
Signs - 10/6/17
Spend Free Time Learning/Creating Rather Than Being Entertained
Medium - 9/29/17
A LEGO World Map
Dirk’s Blog - 9/29/17
How Reaching Out To Parents Improved Student Performance
Hechinger Report - 9/27/17

"When parents got personalized information about attendance, chronic absenteeism dropped 10 percent.”
Five Factors In Social Mobility: Not Just Education
Atlantic - 9/26/17

"They concluded that five correlated factors—segregation, family structure, income inequality, local school quality, and social capital—were likely to make a difference.”
An Interesting Study About Imitative Learning (Via Violence In Films)
Pacific Standard - 9/25/17
Rand Corporation Report On Designing Innovative High Schools
Rand - 9/23/17
The Science Of Fasting
Elysium Helath - 9/15/17
8 Surprisingly Different Tips For Working Smarter, Not Harder
Fast Company - 9/15/17
"The Art Of Building Skateparks”
Artist Waves - 9/7/17
Deconstructing Teacher Brand Ambassadors Via Social Justice
Hack Education - 9/6/17
What Happens When Teachers Are Tech Brand Ambassadors?
New York Times - 9/2/17
A History Of Ikea’s Billy Bookshelf
Signature Reads - 9/1/17
Is The Conversation Pit Poised For A Comeback?
Quartz - 9/1/17
Charlottesville Superintendent On The Start Of School This Year
Pacific Standard - 8/30/17

"Atkins is asking teachers to pay close attention to the age of their students, as well as to how much exposure they may or may not have had to the violence.”
Japanese University Offers Degree In Ninja Studies
Japan Times - 8/23/17
A History Of Zork
MIT Technology Review - 8/22/17
Independent Schools Are A Tiny Part Of The Education Landscape
EdWeek - 8/22/17
Public Opinion On Quality Of Private/Public/Charter Schools
Gallup - 8/21/17
The Story Of The Music On The Golden Record On Voyager 1
New Yorker - 8/20/17
A Burst Of Books Are Out About Boredom
New York Times - 8/10/17
Annie Dillard’s 1982 Essay “Total Eclipse”
Atlantic - 8/8/17
Reflections On How Amateurs And Professionals Are Different
Farnam Street - 8/7/17

"Amateurs don’t have any idea what improves the odds of achieving good outcomes. Professionals do. Amateurs show up to practice to have fun. Professionals realize that what happens in practice happens in games.”
Middle School Stops Giving Any Awards At All
KQED - 8/7/17
17 Essays on “Meaningful Education in Times of Uncertainty”
Brookings - 8/3/17
Hackathons: A College Student Reflects On Their Value
Harvard - 7/25/17
Should Student Internships Be Planned In Cohorts?
Middlebury - 7/21/17
There's A Conference For Procrastination Researchers
New York Times - 7/21/17
Forged Document From 2006 Uses Font From 2007
Fast Company - 7/12/17
On Making Emoji Ligatures/Contractions
Medium - 7/12/17
Malala Finished High School Last Week
New York Times - 7/7/17
Richard Branson On Writing To-Do Lists And Getting Things Done
Virgin - 7/6/17
A Collection Of Resources About The 2017 Solar Eclipse
Larry Ferlazzo - 6/29/17
Sir Ken and Sugata Think Way Outside The Box
Forbes - 6/23/17
Steve Blank Interview: History And Frontiers Of Lean Startup [Audio]
Steve Blank - 6/21/17
What We Reveal Through The Way We Draw Circles. Who Knew?
Quartz - 6/15/17
Audrey Watters On “Personalized Learning”
Hack Education - 6/9/17
40 Years Of Hip-Hop (150 Songs, 100 Artists) Mixed Into One Song
YouTube/The Hood Internet - 6/5/17
Which Is More Important For Parents: Quality Or Quantity Of Time?
LinkedIn - 5/29/17
Suggestions For Helping Kids Find Purpose
KQED - 5/18/17
Dormitories In The Real World: Co-living Buildings Crop Up In Cities
Fast Company - 5/15/17
“Is Verbal Rejection Better Than Being Ignored?”
University of Basel - 5/11/17
Tips For Running EdCamps Or Unconferences
KQED - 5/5/17
“Student Arrested After Crawling Into a Duct to Steal an Exam”
New York Times - 5/4/17
“How The Quality Of School Lunch Affects… Academic Performance”
Brookings - 5/3/17
Graduation Rate Is Climbing For All Demographics
AP - 5/3/17
"The Five Universal Laws Of Human Stupidity”
Quartz - 4/29/17
Please Get Rid Of The Fidget Devices
Guardian - 4/29/17
Please Allow The Fidget Devices
The ASIDE Blog - 4/27/17
Parents, Schools Debate Whether Kids Should Have Homework
New York Times - 4/25/17
Just What Is A Millennial, Anyway?
New York Magazine - 4/24/17
Cassini Descends On Saturn!
New York Times - 4/21/17
Reflection On The BPS Decision To Abandon The Mercator Map
Bright - 4/12/17
Do Later Start Times (For Sleep) Come At The Expense Of Sports?
Atlantic - 4/12/17
Former Bodleian Social Media Mgr Shares Medieval Animated GIFs
Art + Marketing - 4/11/17

"I spent just over a year at the Bodleian being sassy on social media and making GIFs out of centuries-old collections. The animation of the Bodleian’s collections lent them new life. Beautiful images painstakingly made by monks and illustrators hundreds of years ago leapt from their pages anew onto Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr feeds.”
On The Declining Stature Of Experts
NPR - 4/7/17
Dynamic Sensory Contrast, And Why You Love Chocolate and PB
Mic - 4/7/17
A Collection Of Reports About Whether/Why To Take A Gap Year
New York Times - 4/6/17
Songs Are Getting Faster, Have Shorter Titles, And Less Musical Intro
Pacific Standard - 4/5/17
Reddit Creates An Extraordinary Crowdsourced Work Of Pixel Art
SudoScript - 4/4/17
AP Investigates Student-Student Sexual Assault
Associated Press - 4/1/17
“Eye-Tracking Glasses Illustrate What A… Pianist Sees While Playing”
YouTube - 3/28/17
International Cloud Atlas Names 11 New Types Of Clouds
National Geographic - 3/24/17
Boston Public Schools Abandon Mercator Projection For Peters Maps
NPR - 3/21/17
Cultivate Silence—Busy Lives Leave Little Room For Reflection
Harvard Business Review - 3/17/17
Sometimes Skateboarding Is Beautiful
Vimeo/Turbin Film - 3/15/17
Brilliant Interactive Map Of Educational Attainment
Texas Christian University - 3/14/17
Design Is Political
Ethan Marcotte - 3/9/17
Some Cringeworthy College Innovation Jargon
Chronicle of Higher Education - 3/6/17
High School Invested $15K In Snapchat In 2013, Now It’s Worth…
NPR - 3/3/17
Is It Time To Rethink School Schedules?
EdWeek - 2/27/17
Disabled People Have The Right To Sue Schools Over ADA Violations
Pacific Standard - 2/24/17
Chestnuts Roasting… Rewritten To Teach You Music Theory
ClassicFM - 2/21/17
Explorers Find Cave With Crystals Like Superman’s Hideout
National Geographic - 2/17/17
A Scholarly Look At Swear Words?
New York Review of Books - 2/9/17
"Richard DuFour, Renowned Author and Educator, Dies at 69”
MarketWired - 2/8/17
A Google Maps Tour Of The World
Ideando - 2/8/17
NC English Teacher Has Incredible Handshake Routine With Students
WBUR - 2/2/17
A Summary Of The Research On Recess
NPR - 2/1/17
Good Early Career Advice. (Lots Of It.)
Mic - 2/1/17
Time Spent On Social Media Per Year = Time To Read 200 Books
Quartz - 1/29/17
“Art Of Darkness” Examples Of Art Inspired By Darkness
Medium - 1/25/17
7 (Mostly New) Jobs That Capture Being Alive in 2017
Time - 1/25/17
Atul Gawande’s Latest: On Incremental Work Over Crisis Work
New Yorker - 1/23/17
Barack Obama’s Resume, As Written By The Chronicle Of Higher Ed
Chronicle of Higher Education - 1/20/17
Are There Kinds Of Knowledge We Are Incapable Of Expressing?
Aeon - 1/17/17
High School Demographic Trends For The Next 15 Years
Bryan Alexander - 1/9/17
NYTimes Hosts Conversation On Single Sex Schools
New York Times - 1/5/17
How To Minimize Students Challenging Your Grades
Chronicle Vitae - 1/4/17
Where Are Today's EdTech Buzzwords In The Hype Cycle?
EdSurge - 1/3/17
High Contrast Recreations Of Urban Street Maps
Geoff Boeing - 1/2/17
Happy 100th Birthday, Marshmallow Fluff
Marshmallow Fluff - 1/1/17
5 Unrelated Data Points On The State Of Education In 2016
Atlantic - 12/31/16
EdWeek Identifies Several Research Trends From 2016
EdWeek - 12/20/16
Tips For Kicking The Procrastination Habit
James Clear - 12/18/16
On The Further Importance Of Mentors, Advisors
Atlantic - 12/14/16
Does Allowing Simple Pleasures Boost Productivity?
University of Melbourne - 12/13/16
Pearson Releases Their Principles Of Learning Design
Pearson - 12/13/16
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Remixed For The Era Of Consent
YouTube/The Current - 12/9/16
15 Research Findings About Education in 2016
Edutopia - 12/8/16
Dinosaur Tail With Feathers Found In Preserved In Amber
National Geographic - 12/8/16
Elements Of A School Redesign (Funded by AT&T)
EdSurge - 12/7/16
“Beautiful, Stunning” Move Wins World Chess Championship
Slate - 12/1/16
Who Still Lives At Home? Age, Major, State, Income, Degree, And More
Priceonomics - 12/1/16
On The Growing Prevalence Of Having A Side Hustle
Fast Company - 11/30/16
Is Rationality A Moral Virtue?
Pacific Standard - 11/29/16
Interviewing A Dictionary’s Irreverent Twitter Feed
Literary Hub - 11/28/16
Comparing Weekly School Time Across Four Types of Schools
SagePub - 11/28/16
On The Need For More Simplicity
Aeon - 11/28/16
Ways To Respond To Feelings Of Being An Imposter
Chronicle of Higher Education - 11/16/16
How Deadlines, Real Or Self-Imposed, Drive Results
Scientific American - 11/9/16
Schools ≠ Businesses. But Are They “High Performing Organizations”?
NAIS - 11/1/16
Homeschooling Has Doubled Since 1999
Washington Post - 11/1/16
Independent v. Public School Self-Reports From 1st Year Of College
NAIS - 11/1/16
Survey Data About The State Of The Triple Threat Teaching Model
NAIS - 11/1/16
Experience (Obviously?) Correlates With Improved Effectiveness
AFT - 11/1/16
A History Of The Lunch Box
NPR - 10/31/16
Schools Consider Dropping Student Rankings. Here Are Considerations.
Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/30/16
MIT’s 10 Recommendations For The Future Of Their Libraries
MIT - 10/24/16
On Changing A School’s Master Schedule
KQED - 10/24/16
Why Some Teachers Leave Teaching
NPR - 10/24/16
How To Spread Good Ideas And Good Practices
Stanford Social Innovation Review - 10/20/16
Was a Gap Year Worth It? Here Are Stories 25 Years Later
New York Times - 10/19/16
Consequentialism: The Reason Teachers Overwork Themselves?
Aeon - 10/18/16
On The Art And Politics Of Composing A Syllabus
New York Times - 10/17/16
“Forest Bathing”: Air In The Woods Is Good For Your Immune System
Quartz - 10/12/16
What Happens When People Who Shouldn’t Use Adderall Use It
New York Times - 10/12/16
Morning And Breakfast Routines For These Under-35 Professionals
LinkedIn - 10/11/16
More On How Teaching Cursive Might Not Be Necessary Any More
EdWeek - 10/10/16
Some Common Sense Characteristics Of Good Collaboration
Aeon - 10/3/16
On The Need For Alone Time To Get Real Rest
Quartz - 9/28/16
Archaeologists X-Ray And Read 2000 Year-Old Charred Scrolls
Quartz - 9/22/16
9 (Science-Backed?) Tips For Living The Happiest Life You Can
Inc. - 9/22/16
6 Ways To Engage Students In The Presidential Debates
New York Times - 9/21/16
Can You Create A Formula For The Happiest Songs Ever?
Inc. - 9/21/16
On How To Get From Good To Great
New York Magazine - 9/20/16
New Librarian Of Congress: First Woman, First Of Color,
New York Times - 9/15/16
Institutions, Openness, Culture, and Longevity: What Lasts?
Half an Hour - 9/15/16
We Know Design Thinking Is A Thing. What Is Design Learning?
Brookings - 9/14/16
"Icebreakers Are Terrible. They Also, Unfortunately, Work Really Well.”
New York Magazine - 9/9/16
How Do People Use/View Libraries Today? A Deep Look.
Pew Internet - 9/9/16
Today's Students Have No Memory Of 9/11
WAMU - 9/9/16
Elementary School Bans Homework Entirely
Seven Days VT - 9/8/16
Handwriting Has Proven Benefits; Cursive Does Not
Nautilus - 9/8/16
A Long Look At Restorative Practices For Disciplinary Cases
New York Times - 9/7/16
Man Becomes Substitute Teacher, Rails Against Education
New York Times - 9/7/16
Three Steps To Check Your Happiness In Your Career
Fast Company - 9/6/16
In What Ways Does Non-Aged-Based Progress Improve School?
Atlantic - 9/3/16
A Different Take On The Purpose Of Education
Smart Set - 9/2/16
Professors Put Easter Eggs In Their Syllabi To See If Students Read Them
Chronicle of Higher Education - 8/31/16
Is This Melody Really Something Characteristic Of Only Today’s Music?
Quartz - 8/27/16
Five Data Points On Parent Satisfaction With Their Kids’ Education
Gallup - 8/25/16
25 Internet Memes For The 25 Years Of The Web
Medium - 8/23/16
A Theory Of Success: Cluster, Class, And Culture
Steve Blank - 8/19/16
On How Rituals Can Help Performance
Bloomberg - 8/18/16
Tweet An Emoji To The NYPL, And It Sends Pictures From Its Archives
Route Fifty - 8/17/16
Summer School: Catching Up Or Getting Ahead?
New York Times - 8/16/16
What It Means For Students To Focus On Learning, Not On Grades
Inside Higher Ed - 8/16/16
A Splinter And Scrap Filled Playground, Just For Kids
Medium - 8/16/16
Visualizing 100 Years Of Olympic Sprinters
New York Times - 8/15/16
Awesome Center Of Gravity Diagrams For Gymnasts On Balance Beam
Imgur - 8/11/16
The Stories Of The Founders Of The Top 20 Charter Schools
The 74 Million - 8/9/16
To Practice Public Speaking… Talk To Your Dog?
New York Times - 8/5/16
Five Ingredients Of Effective Teamwork
KQED - 8/4/16
Seymour Papert, 88, Creator Of Logo, Educational Theorist
New York Times - 8/1/16
"The Most Beautiful Library In All 50 States”
Tech Insider - 7/29/16
Indiana School District Pushes Start Time To 8:35am. More sleep.
WISHTV - 7/27/16
Um, Ah, Like… On Using Filler Words For Positive Effect
Quartz - 7/25/16
“Virtual First Period.” Online Class Makes For Flexible Work, More Sleep.
EdSurge - 7/25/16
Making Procrastination Count: An Interview With Charles Duhigg
Atlantic - 7/25/16
67 Years Of Legos: A Deep Analysis, Visualized
Mode Analytics - 7/21/16
Gladwell: Why Donors Give To Successful Schools
Revisionist History - 7/20/16
10 Rules For Negotiating a Job Offer
Free Code Camp - 7/19/16
What Is Plagiarism Exactly? Some thoughts.
Chronicle of Higher Education - 7/19/16
Does Preschool Bedtime Affect High School Weight?
New York Times - 7/14/16
Random Walks Lead To Strongest Network Interaction (For Ants)
MIT - 7/13/16
Do K-8 Schools Produce Better Results Than 6-8 (Middle) Schools?
Medium - 7/12/16
Social Media And The End Of Fact (And The End Of News?)
Guardian - 7/12/16
A Meditation On, Cultural History Of, Sleep
Aeon - 7/11/16
Decisions Are Better Made Slowly
Harvard Business Review - 7/8/16
“Boarding Schools Are A National Security Threat”
Foreign Policy - 7/6/16
What Food Is Healthy? Graphing Nutritionist Vs Popular Perspectives
New York Times - 7/5/16
A List Of Useful Mental Models
Medium - 7/5/16
Storytelling: The Key To Happiness And Love?
Wall Street Journal - 7/4/16
JK Rowling’s New Short Story About America’s Hogwarts: Ilvermorny
Pottermore - 6/28/16
Get An MBA Through 9 Infographics
Inc. - 6/21/16
Political Science Prof Becomes Coding Student Of Dying Former Student
Medium - 6/20/16
Pocket-Sized Golden Ratio Finder
Swissmiss - 6/20/16
A Full Length Parody Of The New Yorker: Ads, Articles, Everything
0s-1s - 6/20/16
90 Year Old Loses Faith, Eats Bacon For The First Time [Video]
New Yorker - 6/14/16
Awe Creates Sense Of Time (Far Out, But Interesting.)
Creativity Post - 6/13/16
Ken Burns on Studying History (& Presidential Politics…)
YouTube/Stanford - 6/12/16
On Hobbies, And How They Make Better People
Quartz - 6/12/16
“Psychologists Recommend Children Be Bored In The Summer”
Quartz - 6/11/16

“This same theory was put forward in 1930 by philosopher Bertrand Russell, who devoted a chapter of his book ‘The Conquest of Happiness’ to the potential value of boredom. Imagination and capacity to cope with boredom must be learnt as a child.”
Kids, Summer, And The Benefits Of Boredom
Quartz - 6/11/16
One Model For Linking Schools To Internships And College
Forbes - 6/6/16
Growing Up With Books In The House Helps Your Future Finances
New York Magazine - 6/3/16
35 Interface Designs That Changed Our Lives
Xerox - 6/3/16
On Why Women Are Underrepresented Wikipedia Editors
Harvard Business Review - 6/2/16
Informed Simplicity: Simplicity On The Other Side Of Complexity
Farnam Street - 6/1/16
Scripps National Spelling Bee: Two Winners in 2016
Quartz - 5/27/16
How To Close Read Cinema Like Close Reading A Poem
Medium - 5/26/16
Maybe We Really Don’t Know Whether Breakfast Is Good For You…
New York Times - 5/23/16
How Some Abroad Programs Cause More Harm Than Good
Telegraph - 5/21/16
Drone Parenting, Snowplow Parenting, And What Parents Value
NAIS - 5/18/16
Lin Manuel Miranda on Philadelphia and Your Story
YouTube/University of Pennsylvania - 5/16/16
Comparing Eras Of Innovation: 1870, 1920, 1970, 2016
New York Times - 5/13/16
Is Going To Summer Camp As A Kid A “Competitive Advantage”?
Washington Post - 5/9/16
On The Strength Of Old Media: Why We Pay For The NYT
Medium - 5/9/16
President Obama on Making Change
YouTube/White House - 5/7/16
Robert Moses And Jane Jacobs On The Power Broker
Next City - 5/4/16
How School Districts Perform: By Money, Race, and Success
New York Times - 4/29/16
Reflections On Procrastination, And Addressing It
Washington Post - 4/27/16
“10 Realities About Bullying"
KQED - 4/22/16
More Research On Note-Taking By Hand Vs. By Laptop
NPR - 4/17/16
On The Origins Of Laughter
The Conversation - 4/13/16
Five Approaches To Curbing Bullying In Schools
KQED - 4/7/16
Student-Led Parent Conferences
Hechinger Report - 4/6/16
Beverly Clearly Turned 100 Two Years Ago This Week
National Post - 4/5/16
David Remnick On Aretha Franklin
New Yorker - 4/4/16

"What distinguishes her is not merely the breadth of her catalogue or the cataract force of her vocal instrument; it’s her musical intelligence, her way of singing behind the beat, of spraying a wash of notes over a single word or syllable, of constructing, moment by moment, the emotional power of a three-minute song. “Respect” is as precise an artifact as a Ming vase.”
"Why Do We Work So Hard?”
1843 Magazine - 4/1/16

“The problem is not that overworked professionals are all miserable. The problem is that they are not.”
NYT: “The Keys To Happiness”
New York Times - 4/1/16
How To Change People’s Minds (via Merrick Garland and SCOTUS)
Fast Company - 3/29/16
How The Concept Of “Average” Obstructs Personalized Approaches
KQED - 3/28/16
Two Studies Offer Support For Some Tracking
Hechinger Report - 3/28/16
Excellence Is About Both Practice And Predisposition (Obviously?)
Boston Globe - 3/27/16
On The Health Benefits Of Eating Breakfast
NPR - 3/17/16
Addressing The Unsavory Rise Of Taunting At Sports Competitions
Boston Globe - 3/16/16
Students Believe They Will Succeed, But Few Feel They Know How
Gallup - 3/15/16
80 Years Of Data On Depression
New York Magazine - 3/13/16
The Health (And Practical) Benefits Of Reducing Clutter
Stanford - 3/10/16
HS Students Make Website Summarizing Candidates And Positions
Miami Herald - 3/8/16
NH Schools Send Their Students Into The World To Learn
YouthToday - 3/7/16
Defining Network Effects
Slideshare - 3/7/16
Community Schools: The Decentralized Solution To Education
Medium - 3/4/16
Complaining Is Bad For Your Health
Inc. - 2/29/16
A History Of Commonplace Books
Evernote - 2/26/16
A Love Song To Teachers (And Boarding School)
Huffington Post - 2/22/16
What Is “Average” In Education? A Short Article On A Good Book
NPR - 2/16/16
Protect Your Time: Write An Attention Charter
Cal Newport - 2/16/16
Evolution Of New York Times Crossword Hints
New York Times - 2/6/16
The Weird Effects Logos Have On People
Fast Company - 2/1/16
Mozart’s Daily Routine
Brain Pickings - 1/27/16
On The State Of MicroSchools
EdWeek - 1/26/16
Does Following Your Calling Lead To Being Healthier?
Pacific Standard - 1/25/16
Tips From A Successful Teen Entrepreneur
Inc. - 1/21/16
12 Teachers On How To Be A Great Teacher
NPR - 1/20/16
UK Consulting Firms Remove Degrees As Hiring Prerequisites
Huffington Post - 1/18/16
A Scholarly Analysis Of PowerPoint. No, Really…
Computational Culture - 1/15/16
What Lies Can We Justify? 10,000 People Chime In
New York Times - 1/14/16
On The Renaissance Of Board Games
The Star - 1/14/16
Wikipedia At Age 15
Pew Research - 1/14/16
The Skills Most In Demand… According to LinkedIn (Spoiler: Coding)
LinkedIn - 1/12/16
Teachers Salaries Around The World
Chalk - 1/11/16
A Curriculum For Consent At College Campuses
New York Times - 1/9/16
“Worldschooling”: Taking Your Family On The Road
Medium - 1/7/16
The Debate About The Cognitive Benefits Of Bilingualism Continues
Salon - 1/4/16
Texas School Triples Recess Time
Kera News - 1/3/16
A History Of Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy
Vulture - 1/1/16
The Professional Benefits (And Risks) Of Swearing
Atlantic - 1/1/16
11 Emerging Trends In Education
iNACOL - 12/31/15
NYTimes Best Graphics Of 2015: Longform, Data Viz, And More
New York Times - 12/31/15
No Suspensions: One School’s Restorative Justice Program
Hechinger Report - 12/29/15
A 2016 Education Conference Schedule
EdSurge - 12/23/15
Elements Of A Hit (In Different Industries)
Wall Street Journal - 12/22/15
Spoilers: Do We Enjoy Stories More When We Know The Ending?
Observer - 12/18/15
A Short History Of Information Overload
The American Interest - 12/17/15
Animated Visualization Of The Typical Day For An American
Flowing Data - 12/15/15
Where You Put Your Salad Bar Influences Who Eats From It
Reuters - 12/11/15
Top Ed Tech Trends of 2015: Credits and Credentialing
Hack Education - 12/9/15
Researchers Actually Pursue The Psychology Of Being A Geek
Pacific Standard - 12/8/15
E-Cigarette Flavoring Linked To Lung Disease
Harvard - 12/8/15
A Linguistic Analysis of “YouTube Voice” - Famous YouTubers
Atlantic - 12/7/15
Top Ed Tech Trends of 2015: The Employability Narrative
Hack Education - 12/7/15
Rap Has The Largest Vocabulary Of Songwriting Genres
Musixmatch - 12/3/15
Goldman Sachs Reports On “Emerging Themes” In Culture
Goldman Sachs - 12/2/15
10,000 Hours For Mastery.. or 100 Hours For Superior Competence?
Coding VC - 11/30/15
Two World Record Rubik’s Cube Solutions In One Day
Medium - 11/24/15
Design Consultancy Reports On The Future Of Libraries
Fast Company - 11/24/15
2015 Dance Your PhD Winner Announced
Science - 11/24/15
Seuss-isms And Mathematically Measuring The Humor Of Nonsense
Atlantic - 11/24/15
A Disproportionate % Of Funds Go To Fewer (Older) Teachers
Brookings - 11/23/15
On The Human Need To Create And Tell Stories
Aeon - 11/12/15
Early Research On Health Risks Of E-Cigarettes
Reuters - 11/9/15
Tips For Getting Down To Practice When You Don’t Want To
Creativity Post - 11/4/15
The Story Of The Charlie Brown Theme Music
Wall Street Journal - 11/2/15
A History Of The Backpack
NPR - 11/2/15
There Is Academic Writing On Detecting “Pseudo-Profound Bull$h!t”
Judgment and Decision-Making - 11/1/15
20,000 NYC Public School Students Get Free Tickets To “Hamilton”
New York Times - 10/27/15
Terry Gross And The Art of Conversation
New York Times - 10/25/15
61 Teacher Memes
BuzzFeed - 10/22/15
Autonomous DeLorean
Stanford - 10/20/15
How To Raise An Adult' Continues March Against Helicopter Parents
Washington Post - 10/16/15
An Old E. B. White Story Teaches Us The Ills of Helicopter Parenting
Acculturated - 10/15/15
A Playful Take On The Pleasure Of Community
School of Life/YouTube - 10/14/15
What It Means To Be An Insider Or An Outsider
Farnam Street - 10/14/15
Do Close Teacher Relationships Help Student Performance?
NPR - 10/13/15
Maybe Helicopter Parenting Isn’t Bad For Kids After All?
Washington Post - 10/9/15
MacArthur Foundation Launches Integrated Learning Program
MacArthur Foundation - 10/6/15
Larry Cuban Chastens The Dash To Be Data-Driven
Larry Cuban - 10/6/15
Malala Does Card Tricks With Colbert
3 Quarks Daily - 9/27/15
Maybe Fidgeting Is Good For You?
Quartz - 9/24/15
Actors Recite Pop Lyrics In The Style Of Shakespeare [BrilliantHumor]
Mashable - 9/24/15
2 Different Kinds Of Misbehavior, With 2 Different Life Outcomes
Brookings - 9/22/15
How Five Award-Winning Teachers Spend Their Time Each Day
Medium - 9/22/15
Can Libraries Propel Personalized Content Delivery To Students?
EdSurge - 9/22/15
NYTimes Hosts Conversation On Grade Deflation
New York Times - 9/19/15
Schools Everywhere Are Wrestling With Dress Codes
NPR - 9/16/15
Arts Participation (Not Consumption) Is Driven By Education Not Class
Pacific Standard - 9/15/15
What Jobs Are Likely To Be Automated In The Future? (Not Teachers)
BBC - 9/11/15
Ping-Pong Concerto. Yes, For Violin, Percussion—And Ping-Pong
YouTube/Shanghai Symphony - 9/9/15
Tutors Reduce Math Anxiety (For 3rd Graders)
KQED - 9/9/15
12 Fresh Ways To Think About Teaching
Core77 - 9/8/15
"The Superbowl of Elementary School Chess”
narrative.ly - 9/4/15
On The Intelligence of Physical Work [Podcast]
On Being - 9/3/15
More On The Reliability (Or Unreliability?) Of Studies
Atlantic - 9/1/15
Advice To New Students From Older Students
New York Times - 8/30/15
A History Of Honorary Degrees
Priceonomics - 8/25/15
A History And Explanation Of P-Values
Pacific Standard - 8/24/15
Helping Kids With Homework Transmits Our Anxieties To Them
New York Times - 8/24/15
In Defense Of Spacing Out
New York Magazine - 8/6/15
What Percentage Of Schools Start At 8:30am Or Later? Not Enough.
Washington Post - 8/6/15
Finding Cheap Textbooks: A Case Study
Forbes - 8/2/15
5 Exercises To Help Clarify Your Values And What Makes A Good Life
New York Times - 7/31/15
Many Facets Of Being A Good Teacher
Edutopia - 7/28/15
“Drinking Highest Among Educated, Upper-Income Americans”
Gallup - 7/27/15
"If you want to be the noun, first do the verb.”
Austin Kleon - 7/22/15
What's Happened In The Wake Of The Horace Mann Cases
BuzzFeed - 7/22/15
Conversation Analysis. It Exists: Second By Second
TED - 7/15/15
NPR Radio Hour Asks: “Why We Collaborate”
NPR - 7/10/15
In Praise Of Drawing, And How It Helps Us See Differently
Brain Pickings - 7/10/15
Should Your Counseling Office Have A Dog?
Bright - 7/9/15
What Majors Are More Likely To Marry People From the Same Major?
Priceonomics - 7/7/15
How One School Uses Peer Accountability To Motivate Students
KQED - 7/2/15
Comparing The Benefits Of Morning vs Evening Exercise
Fast Company - 6/26/15
4 Types Of Introverts: Social, Thinking, Anxious, and Restrained
New York Magazine - 6/25/15
The Great Battle For The New York Public Library
Chronicle of Higher Education - 6/24/15
Should Teachers Stay With Students For Multiple Years?
EdWeek - 6/17/15
Coders Hide Messages In Campaign Websites: Bush, Clinton, Paul
USA Today - 6/17/15
An Exploration Into Distraction, And How We Fear Ourselves
New Yorker - 6/16/15
A Print Version Of Wikipedia
New York Times - 6/16/15
Data Science Meets The History Of Music
Priceonomics - 6/11/15
What Is The History Of “Learning Networks”?
Hack Education - 6/10/15
On The Expansion Of Administration
Spectator - 6/6/15
Teacher Explains Departure To Teach In Another Country
Guardian - 6/6/15
When The Politics Of Feelings Obstruct Discourse
Vox - 6/3/15
David Byrne On The Algorithm Vs The Curator
New Statesman - 6/1/15
Grant Wiggins, Champion of Learning, Dies at Age 64
Education World - 5/29/15
On The Place of Paper Notebooks In A Digital Age
NPR - 5/27/15
Natalie Portman Reflects On Pursuing Achievement Vs. Purpose
Harvard Magazine - 5/27/15
Can We Stop Referring To Students As “Customers”?
Slate - 5/22/15
7 Strategies For Nurturing Student Mental Health In Schools
KQED - 5/22/15
Night Owl or Morning Lark? Which Is Smarter, Happier, Wealthier?
Fast Company - 5/19/15
How The Job Market Has Changed, Thanks To Computers
NPR - 5/18/15
More Prognostication About The Jobs Of The Future
Fast Company - 5/18/15
History Of Architecture As Analogy For Future Of Web Design
Medium - 5/12/15
The State of Google’s Self-Driving Car Project
Medium - 5/11/15
New York Times Asks Your Students: “Do We Still Need Libraries?”
New York Times - 5/7/15
Millennials Seek Flexibility In Their Jobs
Harvard Business Review - 5/7/15
The Indirect Effect of Emotion On Decision Making
Harvard Business Review - 5/6/15
Ten Strategies To Learn Anything?
World Economic Forum - 5/4/15
Data Only Goes So Far
New York Times - 5/2/15
A Sew-On Patch For Procrastinators [Fun]
No Fun Press - 5/1/15
The Case For Origami
Edutopia - 4/29/15
A Philosopher’s Look At Play
New York Times - 4/27/15
The Apocryphal History of “Factory Model” Education
Hack Education - 4/25/15
Newspapers and Rock n’ Roll: In Praise Of The Summer Job
Wall Street Journal - 4/24/15
Peer Review Works
Chronicle of Higher Education - 4/23/15
"The Right Dose Of Exercise For A Longer Life”
New York Times - 4/15/15
The Case For Adults Needing More Time To Play
Pacific Standard - 4/9/15
On Kids, Parenting, And Searching For Passions
New York Times - 4/8/15
In This School, Kids Do All The Custodial Work
NPR - 4/4/15
On How Feelings Influence Thinking
New York Times - 4/3/15
The Micro-Schools Movement Grows: Enter 4.0 Schools
Medium - 3/31/15
Should Girls’ Lacrosse Require Helmets?
New York Times - 3/30/15
On Being Really Persuasive
Quartz - 3/29/15
How One School Used Restorative Justice To Address Discipline
NationSwell - 3/27/15
State Of The Union: As Written By A Sophomore [Humor]
New Yorker - 3/24/15
International Data On Student Engagement And Intrinsic Motivation
Brookings - 3/24/15
Peer Pressure Affects Course Sign-Ups
Brookings - 3/20/15
On Seeing Things Anew In An Age Of Information Saturation
New York Times - 3/19/15
Ten More Tips For Giving Presentations
Farnam Street - 3/17/15
Tips from TED on Public Speaking
TED - 3/16/15
5 Ways Education May Change in 5 Years (Another Prediction…)
Fast Company - 3/10/15
The Demographics Of Mentoring In America
Brookings - 3/6/15
How To Ask For A Raise
Harvard Business Review - 3/5/15
Surveillance Is Different From Care
Snakes and Ladders - 3/4/15
Public School Teacher Sends Daughter To Private School, Explains
Atlantic - 3/4/15
Teacher Training Programs Seeing Sharp Drop In Enrollment
NPR - 3/3/15
Excellent Tips For Making Excellent Presentations
Stanford Graduate School of Business - 3/2/15
“My Ideal [Prep] School”: A Complete Reimagining Of School, With Sources
NAIS - 3/1/15
Advice From A Veteran Teacher To Himself As A New Teacher
NAIS - 3/1/15
Tips From A Concierge On How To Remember People’s Names
New York Times - 2/27/15
AltSchool: Project-Based Micro-Schools Gain Momentum
EdSurge - 2/26/15
More on Unschooling
Washington Post - 2/25/15
Where Do Students Study Abroad? [Map]
MoveHub - 2/23/15
Oliver Sacks Writes About Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
New York Times - 2/19/15
On Building Passion Projects
Harvard Business Review - 2/19/15
8 Perspectives On How Students Succeed
Stanford Social Innovation Review - 2/18/15
What Are Barriers To Entrepreneurship?
Gallup - 2/18/15
The Dark And Stormy Story Of A Century-Old Typeface
Gizmodo - 2/16/15
Student Makes Movie About How School Diverts Dreams [video]
Rachel B Wolfe - 2/11/15
Benefits of Recess, And How To Make It Even Better
Stanford - 2/11/15
Private Schools With A Public Purpose, Conference in March
Mission Local - 2/10/15
A Nice Argument That We Are Inherently Happy
Christian Science Monitor - 2/10/15
UK University Creates a Nap Room
Telegraph - 2/3/15
VT High School Schedules 15 Minute Recess Every Day
Edutopia - 2/3/15
Anthropology of Childhood: There’s No Best Way To Raise A Child
New York Times - 1/31/15
School Design Innovation in 2015
Medium - 1/27/15
Stop Motion Lego Painting Of A Piet Mondrian
YouTube/CheesyBricks - 1/27/15
The Ukulele Is Having a Revival
Atlantic - 1/25/15
KQED On What’s Emerging In Education Today
KQED - 1/22/15
Barriers To And Misconceptions About Public-Private Partnerships
Atlantic - 1/21/15
Is Quidditch A Sport? See The Documentary…
Vice - 1/16/15
More Than Half Of Us Public School Students Considered In Poverty
New York Times - 1/16/15
How To Be A Good Colleague
EdWeek - 1/13/15
Fall Asleep Faster? Inhale 4 Seconds, Hold 7, Out 8 Seconds
Byrdie - 1/12/15
Time Magazine’s 100 Best Children’s Books
Time - 1/8/15
NPR Gathers 15 Predictions For Education in 2015
NPR - 1/3/15
The Tyranny of Copyright Extensions
Center for the Study of Public Domain - 1/1/15
Instead Of Yearlong Resolutions, Try 90 Day Resolutions
Fast Company - 12/30/14
The Evolution of A Blogging Educator
e-Literate - 12/22/14
Christmas Carol Data Visualization
Some E Cards - 12/19/14
A Library Reinvents Itself: Intellectual Without Being Academic
CityLab - 12/18/14
Can Restorative Justice Reduce Suspensions?
NPR - 12/17/14
On Being Yourself
New York Times - 12/15/14
The Science Behind Giving Good Gifts
New York Magazine - 12/12/14
Does Punishment For Lying Lead to More Lying?
Pacific Standard - 12/9/14
To Achieve a Vision: WOOP, There It Is...
New York Magazine - 12/9/14
Map And Timeline of 2014 Student Protests
Student Activism - 12/4/14
On Using Student Data Beyond The Classroom
New York Times - 12/3/14
Teacher Proposes Public-Private Partnership. Comments Get Feisty.
Honolulu Civil Beat - 12/1/14
Spotify Shares Music Trends of 2014
Spotify - 12/1/14
What’s Going On With High School Football Deaths?
USA Today - 11/30/14
Software Engineers Are In So Much Demand, They Now Have Agents
New Yorker - 11/24/14
Helicopter Parenting: US vs. France
Quartz - 11/21/14
More Libraries Are Pivoting Towards Digital Workspaces
KQED - 11/20/14
Some Reminders On How To Simplify Your Life
Farnam Street - 11/19/14
AltSchool--A Small, Private School Chain--Opens One In Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle - 11/18/14
Who Are the Millennials?
NPR - 11/18/14
Earlier School Start Times Correlate with Increased Teen Car Crashes
New York Magazine - 11/17/14
Maps About the Growth and Diversity of Language
Vox - 11/17/14
Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year: “Vape”
Oxford Dictionaries - 11/17/14
E-Cigarette Use Triples from 2011, from 1.5% to 4.5% of HS Kids
EdWeek - 11/14/14
Elon Musk Recommends 12 Books
Farnam Street - 11/12/14
London’s Taxi Test: Archaic, or a Reminder of How We Should Test?
New York Times - 11/10/14
How Focusing on One Person Increases Generosity When Giving
NPR - 11/5/14
Harvard Surreptitiously Studies Classroom Attendance
Harvard Magazine - 11/5/14
What Happens When Teachers Get Paid $125K?
Atlantic - 11/4/14
How TFA Manages Crises
The Nation - 10/29/14
When Schools Don’t Have a Playground, Kids Don’t Learn to Play
New York Times - 10/27/14
Tips For Spending More Time In Nature With Your Kids
Washington Post - 10/21/14
How Students Can Be Involved in Decision-Making in Education
KQED - 10/17/14
A History and Defense of the Blackboard
Slate - 10/15/14
On Giving Big Gifts to Institutions
New York Times - 10/10/14
Teacher Shadows Two Students, Finds They Sit and Listen All Day
Grant Wiggins - 10/10/14
Parent-Teacher Conferences: Blogger Suggests Not Bringing Grade Books
Joe Bower - 10/9/14
3 Graphs to Show Changes in the Textbook Industry
NPR - 10/9/14
The Science of How Many Friends We Can Have
New Yorker - 10/7/14
How Millennials Handle Money Differently From The Rest Of Us
Quartz - 10/7/14
A Business Approach to a Teaching Career
LinkedIn - 10/6/14
How Comparing Yourself To Others Crushes Confidence
99u - 10/6/14
Feelings About Purposefulness of Work: Business v. Education
Gallup - 10/2/14
Three High School Football Deaths This Week
ESPN - 10/2/14
Interactive Data On Public Opinions On Public School
Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup - 10/1/14
What Do Americans Think About Public Education? (It’s Not All Bad!)
Phi Delta Kappan - 10/1/14
Everyone is Winging It. Take Confidence In This.
99u - 10/1/14
How Eric Schmidt Manages Email
Time - 9/24/14
Let Students Take the Lead in Parent-Teacher Conferences
KQED - 9/23/14
Who In The World Is Thriving, and Why? (Hint: Education Matters)
Gallup - 9/23/14
Want Future Job Security? Major in Drones.
Business Insider - 9/22/14
Advice (for Parents) on Parent-Teacher Conferences
NPR - 9/18/14
An Infographic Explaining Different Degrees Of Plagiarism
Visual Communication Guy - 9/16/14
The Mathematics Behind The Major Triad In Music
YouTube - 9/9/14
The Onion Ranks Colleges [Humor]
The Onion - 9/9/14
At This Boston School, Teachers Make Every Decision
KQED - 9/5/14
NPR Dives Deep into the Landscape of New Orleans Schools
NPR - 9/2/14
Seven Reasons Teachers Would Do a Job Better Than Non-Teachers
Quartz - 8/29/14
Americans Are More Satisfied with Education Than Before
Gallup - 8/28/14
A Turning Point in Games: Entering Mass Culture
BuzzFeed - 8/28/14
What Scales in Education?
EdSurge - 8/27/14
Some Surprisingly Healthy Advice for Students for Doing Well
Business Insider - 8/25/14
Asking For Advice Gives an Impression of Greater Competency
New York Magazine - 8/21/14
John Hattie Talks About Homework
BBC Radio - 8/20/14
Majority of Americans Prefer Local Control Over Schools
Gallup - 8/20/14
In Defense of Online Gaming
Harvard Business Review - 8/18/14
Do Video Game Skills Lead to Gainful Employment?
Wall Street Journal - 8/12/14
Charting the Growth of Non-Teachers in Schools
Thomas Fordham Institute - 8/12/14
Robin Williams as Teacher: From Sage/Stage to Guide on the Side
NPR - 8/12/14
Student Loan Debt Tied to Lower Health and Happiness
Businessweek - 8/7/14
In Africa, Different Perceptions of the Importance of Education
Gallup - 8/6/14
Library Reinvention Continues. This Time It’s an LA Public School.
EdSurge - 8/5/14
Ten Tips for a Happy Life - from the Pope
The Higher Learning - 7/31/14
If Knowledge is Contextual, Should We Read News Like This...?
Fast Company - 7/31/14
What’s In a Name? Quite a Bit, It Turns Out.
Atlantic - 7/30/14
Tennessee Doubles Down On Cursive. Here Are The Requirements.
Tennessee Board of Education - 7/25/14
Where Do Autodidacts Come From?
Brilliant Blog - 7/23/14
12 Great New Yorker Articles on Education
Vox - 7/21/14
“Like” and “Um” Indicate Conscientiousness (Surprise!)
New Yorker - 7/20/14
How To Build a Campus Space for the Future: Don’t.
Chronicle of Higher Education - 7/18/14
US Libraries Move to Include Maker Spaces
New Scientist - 7/17/14
Chainmail Running Shoes. No, really. Chainmail Running Shoes.
Core77 - 7/15/14
Use Your Password as a Reminder and Motivator
99u - 7/15/14
Educating Preschoolers About Sleep Improves Their Sleep Habits
Brilliant Blog - 7/10/14
4 Questions for Every New Education Study
Atlantic - 7/8/14
NPR Does a Broad Survey on Stress in American Life
NPR - 7/7/14
“Pop-Up Schools” Begin Creating Classrooms Outside of School
NPR - 7/2/14
Why Start a Private School in Harlem?
Washington Post - 7/2/14
NYPL Tries Again. Will They Get It Right?
Wall Street Journal - 6/29/14
The Case For Micro-Schools
Medium - 6/27/14
A Brief History of Where Title IX Came From
Writer’s Almanac - 6/23/14
How the Business World Recommends Addressing Underperformers
Harvard Business Review - 6/23/14
Our Moral Decision-Making Changes When Using 2nd Languages
New York Times - 6/20/14
Sending Smells Across the Atlantic
Fast Company - 6/13/14
Kids (As Young As 6) Know When You’re Not Telling the Whole Truth
Pacific Standard - 6/11/14
David Brooks On The Trouble Of Focus In A Digital Age
New York Times - 6/2/14
KIPP Schools Share Their 2013 Report Card
KIPP - 6/1/14
Why Cell Phones Have Made Us Bad Planners [Humor, Satire]
The Bold Italic - 5/29/14
Millennials Prefer $40K Jobs With Purpose Over $100K Jobs Without
PolicyMic - 5/28/14
Mapmaking Mystery: Extraordinarily Accurate 13th Century Maps
Discover - 5/27/14
Driverless Cars Now Have No Steering Wheels or Pedals
New York Times - 5/27/14
NPR Gathers The “Best Commencement Speeches, Ever”
NPR - 5/19/14
NPR Opens Dedicated Education Division: NPREd
NPR - 5/19/14
The Increasingly Volatile Politics of Commencement Speakers...
Philly.com - 5/18/14
Community Relations Goes Beyond Writing Checks
SF Gate - 5/17/14
How Libraries Decide What to Keep... and What to Jettison
Medium - 5/13/14
Are Today’s Students Less Able to Engage Opposing Views?
Daily Beast - 5/13/14
Non-Prescription Stimulant Use It Not Increasing
Forbes - 5/9/14
And 3D Printers Start Moving to the Mainstream (Makeup!)
Business Insider - 5/6/14
Stanford Divests Coal Stock from its $18bn Endowment
New York Times - 5/6/14
How Small, Independent Bookstores Are Thriving
NPR - 5/3/14
Do Children Need Less Structure in Their Play Time... or More?
Brilliant Blog - 5/3/14
4 Ways to Bring the Best Talent to Teaching at Troubled Schools
Forbes - 4/30/14
What Is the ASU-GSV Ed Innovation Summit? Does it Matter?
EdSurge - 4/27/14
Is Collecting Student Data on a Large Scale Possible?
New York Times - 4/26/14
Game Designers Aim for Social Impact
Forbes - 4/26/14
Teen Gives Away Banned Books. Parents Call Cops. [Humor?]
KBOI - 4/23/14
Google’s Advice for Writing Resumes
Quartz - 4/20/14
One Teacher Reflects on a Year with an iLab
vvrotney - 4/15/14
Harry Potter Fans Rejoice: The Harry Potter MOOC is Here
Slate - 4/14/14
When and How Should Parents Be Involved in School?
New York Times - 4/12/14
The Collapse of the Honor Code at One School
New York Times - 4/11/14
Caffeine is Being Promoted as an Athletic Enhancement
Vox - 4/10/14
Are Schools Antifragile? Do We Become Stronger Under Stress?
Farnam Street - 4/7/14
Comic Sans--the World’s Most Hated Font--Gets a Makeover
Washington Post - 4/7/14
A Customer Approach to School Design
NAIS - 4/1/14
How One College Changed Its Approach to Homework.. for Better.
Brilliant Blog - 3/31/14
Educator’s Ought to Lead Edtech Innovations
EdSurge - 3/28/14
Researchers on Handwriting vs Cursive (What About Typing?)
KQED - 3/26/14
Invest in Students (Literally), So They Can Pay For College, Then You
Pacific Standard - 3/26/14
How to Use Game of Thrones Spoilers for Classroom Management
Metro - 3/22/14
Notes from the First Global Education and Skills Forum
Forbes - 3/22/14
Kids Need to Explore. Here’s a Playground to Enable Just That
Atlantic - 3/19/14
A Fork That Produces Custom Smells...
Fast Company - 3/19/14
Visualized List Of Effect Sizes Of Factors In Education (via Hattie)
Visible Learning - 3/17/14
Public, Private, and Charter Schools... and Now Hybrid Schools?
New York Times - 3/13/14
The Generation Gap in Silicon Valley: Cool vs Meaningful?
New York Times - 3/12/14
Should Your Institution Have a Wikipedian-In-Residence?
Atlantic - 3/12/14
Digitally Distracted Adults Are Bad For Kids
New York Times - 3/10/14
Does Beauty in Language Come From Familiarity with its Sounds?
The Smart Set - 3/4/14
“The Breathtaking, Life-Altering Power Of Being A Dork”
Cult of Pedagogy - 2/21/14
New Libraries: Platform, Place, Facilitator, Garden [online book]
Medium - 2/21/14
A Decision Journal: A Tool For Making Better Decisions?
Farnam Street - 2/20/14
What Does America Think About Education? [Interactive Infographic]
50can - 2/19/14
When An Ivy League Degree Can Be A Liability
New York Times - 2/13/14
Dressing Unlike Others Boosts Success?
Pacific-Standard - 2/13/14
Doodles By Darwin’s Kids... On the Origins of Species
The Appendix - 2/12/14
NC Head of School Announces Snow Day in Rap
YouTube - 2/12/14
Teasing Apart Successful Public-Private Partnerships
Telegraph - 2/11/14
Co-Founder of Cliff’s Notes Dies at 94
Lincoln Journal Star - 2/10/14
UK Gov’t Creates a “Nudge Team”
Independent - 2/9/14
Here is One Vision of What Makes a “Sound, Basic Education”
Brilliant Blog - 2/6/14
Library Support and Attendance is Stronger Than Ever Before
Pacific Standard - 2/6/14
Do Single-Sex Environments Help Students?
Brilliant Blog - 2/6/14
Harvard Faculty Discusses Adopting An Honor Code
Harvard Magazine - 2/5/14
Concussions Damage the Microfibers in our Brains
New York Times - 2/4/14
APA Surveys the Nation on Stress Perceptions and Habits
American Psychological Association - 2/1/14
The Top 25 High Scoring High Schools on the SAT
Business Insider - 1/21/14
The oPhone: Send Smells Across Long Distances
Wired - 1/17/14
Mindfulness and Schools: Helping Settle Troubling Kids
KQED - 1/17/14
Should We Include Happiness as an Educational Outcome?
Smart - 1/10/14
Retirement? No Way. This New Jersey Teacher Turns 100
Washington Post - 1/10/14
Light at Night Is Bad For Your Health (xrf. Digital Devices...)
io9 - 1/9/14
Thieves Steal 22 Computers from Khan Academy Offices
Mountain View Voice - 1/7/14
Percentage of Students in Private Schools Declines Slightly
Forbes - 1/6/14
Google Scholar Grows in Use
Atlantic - 1/3/14
What’s the Difference Between Living Happily and Living Meaningfully?
Stanford - 1/1/14
A Satellite Picture Geography Game: Can You Identify This Place?
Quartz - 1/1/14
How does Winning the Fields Medal Change Productivity?
Pricenomics - 12/31/13
Scientists Levitate Objects with Sound [Video]
YouTube - 12/31/13
A TED Talk on What’s Wrong with TED Talks
Guardian - 12/30/13
Can Plants Learn? Re-understanding Intelligence, Memory, and More
New Yorker - 12/23/13
New York Time’s Best Education Books of 2013
New York Times - 12/18/13
Teaching is Harder than Rocket Science, Says Former Rocket Scientist
Slate - 12/18/13
Is ADD an epidemic?
New York Times - 12/18/13
ADD: 20 years of Marketing and Growth
New York Times - 12/14/13
Hazing Death in Fraternity Ritual in Pennsylvania
New York Times - 12/12/13
Are We More Productive When We Work Six Hour Workdays?
Quartz - 12/12/13
Pen-Spinners in Class? Here’s Something to Aspire to.
Kuma Films/YouTube - 12/4/13
Clarifying the (Mostly False) Left-Brain/Right-Brain Distinction
NPR - 12/2/13
8 Tips For Creativity And Success
Barking Up The Wrong Tree - 12/1/13
On The Perils of Being “Busy”
Tyler Ward - 12/1/13
Surprising Gifts from Gratefulness: Health, Happiness... and Fundraising?!
Harvard Business Review - 11/26/13
Introverts
Edutopia - 11/25/13
The Period Takes On New Meanings in Digital Communication
New Republic - 11/25/13
Art Makes Kids Better Students
New York Times - 11/23/13
“Because” gets a new definition
Atlantic - 11/19/13
Relating High School to Adulthood. Having A Friend Group Means the Most.
Brilliant Blog - 11/18/13
How Kids (and People) Use Facebook Today
New York Times - 11/16/13
Former DA teacher writes about Typhoon Haiyan in NYT
New York Times - 11/14/13
What If Shakespeare Were the Pitchman for Course Registration
New York Times - 11/9/13

“What ho, callow youth! What royal repast wilt thou engorge thy brains on?”
A Law So Teens Can Delete Their Social Media Mistakes
New Scientist - 11/9/13

“It is the first glimpse of a promising and balanced ‘right to be forgotten’”
Do Good Data Analysis Skills Lead to Better Citizens?
NPR - 11/1/13
Teach for America Goes International... and Shows Rapid Growth
New York Times - 10/29/13
China Gets the Basics Right: Teachers Talk With Teachers
New York Times - 10/22/13
A Fun Take On Procrastination, And Good Tips For How To Fix It
Wait But Why - 10/1/13
Another Critique of Clayton Christensen’s Disruption Theory
Stratechery - 9/22/13
How To Ask For And Get What You Want
Medium - 9/9/13
Books At Home Lead To More Success In School
Core77 - 6/13/13
Before You Have An Opinion, Do The Work
Farnam Street - 4/29/13
Dweck’s Growth Mindset: Even More Important for Girls?
KQED - 4/24/13
Meditation, Multitasking, and College Students
Chronicle of Higher Education - 3/24/13

“So many of those debates fail to even acknowledge or realize that we can educate ourselves, even in the digital era, to be more attentive.”
How To Choose The Perfect Board Game [flowchart]
Silver Oak Casino - 1/1/13
Relax. Here Is A 3 Hour Video Of A Beach With A Palm Tree
YouTube - 10/25/12
Cartoon about Failure
Doodle Alley - 10/10/12
Do Private Schools Inhibit The Development Of Public Schools?
Gawker - 9/13/12
When Collaboration Works, And Why People Sometimes Resist It
Harvard Business Review - 12/1/11
The True Size Of Africa
Wikimedia - 10/15/11
A History of College Grade Inflation
New York Times - 7/14/11
Is There A Science To Morality?
Edge - 7/20/10
Where Town Names Come From: -wich, -sex, -chester, -ford, -bury...
Hartford Courant - 2/15/10
A Collection Of Resources For Teaching Students About Plagiarism
Larry Ferlazzo - 9/21/09
Why Advisory Groups Work, And A List of Advisory Models
Coalition of Essential Schools - 3/14/02

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