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CoSN Investigates Scandanavian Students’ Success

An interesting follow up to my Feb 29 post (What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?) showed up today from eSchool News. The article, U.S. Educators Seek Lessons from Scandinavia, reported on a visit to Scandinavian schools by the Consortium for School Networking Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:34 PM from iTeach - Skip Via | 0 Comments

CoSN Investigates Scandanavian Students’ Success

An interesting follow up to my Feb 29 post ( What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? ) showed up today from eSchool News . The article, U.S. Educators Seek Lessons from Scandinavia , reported on a visit to Scandinavian schools by the Consortium for School Networking Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:34 PM from skipvia | 0 Comments

The New Sputnik

I suspect many readers of this blog are not old enough to remember Sputnik (1957) and the massive changes that it brought to math and science education in our nation’s K-12 and post-secondary schools. But we are all beneficiaries of those changes. Read More...

Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 5:02 PM from iTeach - Skip Via | 0 Comments

Your Own Child Left Behind?

It’s difficult to find arguments for the success of NCLB, but here’s a unique twist on the topic. Parents (at least those in Kansas) don’t appear to support strengthening math, science, and technology programs to enhance 21st century Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:13 PM from iTeach - Skip Via | 0 Comments