With racial diversity growing in many suburban and rural areas, several recent awards are especially important. The national Coalition of …
We’ll come back, sadder but stronger. That’s what I’ve predicted in talking with youngsters about the second Boston Massacre – …
This week I thought about people like Wayne Pikal, Ramona de Rosales, Doug and Dee Thomas, Eric and Ella Mahmoud …
What can five- and six-year-olds learn from building a playground, or high school students learn helping to produce a play, …
Minnesota educators, students, parents and policymakers received another honor last week: the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools ranked our …
What inventions, discoveries or other changes have had the most impact on how you learn? A recent brief paper by …
In some ways, Penny, Pete and Paul were very different. Penny was a blonde, blue-eyed teenager who grew up on …
How about a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza compliment for Minnesota’s eighth grade students’ knowledge of math and science? Recently released results of an …
Startling, stunning and shocking! Those are three words I heard constantly as Minnesotans have started to discuss a new federal …
Let’s start today with Tina the tiny horse. Well, perhaps not tiny, but small, and injured when kicked by another horse shortly …
