As if to confirm that it’s back-to-school time, The Education Sector Biweekly Digest sent me this timely link to an April 2010 post by Forrest Hinton at the Quick and the Ed. Hinton argues that teachers are by nature quite competitive. But he wonders if they’re competitive about the important things: The truth is, as [...]
Here’s a wonderful story from The Awl about Hanny van Arkel, a school teacher in the Netherlands. Science writer Ann Finkbeiner reports: Hanny van Arkel was 24 years old and teaching primary school in Heerlen, the Netherlands. She also played guitar and during summer vacation back in 2007, she was noodling around on the website [...]