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Author Archives: Abner Oakes
Qatar, its educational system, and books
A former colleague and current teacher is spending the year with her husband in Qatar, and she blogs about it here. She had a great post about Qatari schools and schooling, of which I have taken a large snippet. Thanks, … Continue reading
Mathematics musings: the Common Core, algebra, and instruction
I got math on the brain. Scary, I know, for an old English teacher. It started when a friend tweeted this article about a charter school in San Diego that had revamped its math curriculum so that their kids would … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, Federal policy, School district, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged algebra, center on education policy, Common Core State Standards, denise mewborn, einstein academy, Jon Star, K-12 Mathematics Joint Work Group, mathematics, montgomery county, National Mathematics Advisory Panel, san diego unified school district
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Going to school in Nigeria
I have a good friend from college, Brian Hitchcock, who’s living near Jos, Nigeria this year, running the work of his non-profit Self-Sustaining Enterprises (SSE). You can see the website for more info on SSE and the blog that Brian … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, School, Teachers, Teaching
Tagged jos, nigeria, plateau state, Self-Sustaining Enterprises
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Happy the beagle
Being home over the holiday got me thinking about school and the town I grew up in – and Happy the beagle. I used to take that dog to school. My brother Jeff and I would walk there – it … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, Parents, School, Teaching
Tagged afterschool alliance, beagle, dartmouth college, hanover, kiewit, moose, new hampshire, occom pond, santa maria, teletype
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Tuesday Tidbits, December 7, 2010
There are interesting things happening at the Big Ideas Fest, which started on Sunday, out in sunny Half Moon Bay, CA. Martha Kanter from the Department of Education shared this YouTube clip at the kick off: One of things highlighted … Continue reading
Posted in Federal policy, Teaching
Tagged big ideas fest, kqed, mindshift, mit media lab, national education policy center, siftables, sugata mitra
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Does class size matter?
Many moons ago – summer of 2009 – there was an AP piece about the increase in class sizes across the US and further chatter on blogs like Eduwonk and the like that it isn’t really about class size but … Continue reading