Rewriting Paradigms

I’m thrilled to participate in this week’s “An Hour of Code,” that is taking place as part of the annual “Computer Science Education Week.” “CSEd week” is celebrated each year in honor of programming pioneer, “Amazing” Grace Hopper. This year’s events speak volumes to the benefits that private and public sector collaboration can have across the spectrum of learning, and how that in turn can positively impact on the workplace. An Hour of Code is the brain child of Hadi Partovi

By default and most frequently by definition, most schools are designed to ensure success measured by graduation and college acceptance rates. And socially, we have been encouraged to measure our own success by these milestones and by the one that logically follows, the landing of a respectable job with a respectable salary. In “Is High School the Mother of All Event-Based Learning?” I questioned the emphasis on these specific goals at the potential loss to those lifelong lea

Many parents have been ushering now senior high schoolers through the college application process for almost a year now. If you’ve been working at it at this level of intensity for much longer than that, my condolences to you and your child both. The 2015 graduation crop is filling out the last of their applications, sitting in on the last of those interviews and auditions, and perhaps breathing one sigh of relief before starting to panic over fall finals and AP exams they’ll