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Sports of a Smarter Sort
With the World Cup starting, soccer enthusiasts, sport aficionados, and anyone who keeps even mildly abreast of developments in the sporting world are bound to rehash the all-too-familiar conversation...
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Funding Formulas and the Future: a brief polemic to end the week
In the past week, two curious stories in education flew under the radar of most national media. The state of Rhode Island finalized a new school funding formula, ending its twenty-year regime as the...
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The Curious Case of Higher Education
In case you only managed to scan the education headlines of the past two weeks, allow me to piece together the narrative subtext for you. A country knee-deep in reasons to worry about losing its...
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IN THE YEAR 2025
Charting the future of libraries has no simple alchemy to it. Part prediction, part forecasting (and, possibly, part playing the jeremiad), academic research libraries are learning to re-orient their...
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Etch a Sketch 5.0
While South Dakota, Indiana, and a handful of other states have yet to implement any state funding whatsoever for pre-K programs, early childhood education seems to be a growing priority elsewhere....
View ArticleWe Want More Women Writing Our Code
The Digital Divide no longer longer brings to mind the same concerns about the haves v. have-nots it once did. Increasingly, investigations into disparities in internet access focus on the types of...
View ArticleThe Future of Civics Education
Pairing big city governments with Web 2.0 talent will change the way municipalities will do business. With a healthy infusion of technologists’ skills and sensibilities, some city operations could end...
View ArticleOh, the Humanities
I am thoroughly and completely a humanist, as far as my college education goes. The closest I’ve gotten to a course that involved any rigorous quantification was an upper level geometry class of four,...
View ArticleThree Things in a Scholar’s Web Toolkit
In a bit of cursory research conducted for last week’s post on currents of change and debate in the humanities, I came across Omeka, a web publishing and curatorial tool created by George Mason...
View ArticleGaming for Good
Games make headlines. They do more than intrigue; they endear themselves to us, giving grown-ups opportunities to re-imagine or re-live in the virtual world the “play” lost to adolescence. Maybe...
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