The Game of Chess

The game of Chess. “At a Brooklyn School, the Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around,” by Anne Barndard and Dylan Loeb McClain. Published in the NYTimes.

AERA and The Gordon Commission

Pedagogical Imagination: Using Knowledge to Inform, To Change, and to Improve Teaching and Learning

Scheduled Time: Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 12:25-1:55 p.m.

Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Center,  West Ballroom B

 

 

AERA Public Hearing on The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education

Scheduled Time: Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 4:05–6:05 p.m.

Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Center, Floor First Level — West Ballroom B

Sponsor: Presidential Session

Co-sponsors: NCME and AERA Division C — Learning and Instruction

The Public Hearing on the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education will take place during the 2012 AERA Annual Meeting. It will open with perspectives from the Gordon Commission presented by Edmund Gordon and James Pellegrino. Professor Gordon will discuss changing paradigms for education. Professor Pellegrino will comment on several of the issues that will inform the deliberations of the Gordon Commission. The Public Hearing will be moderated and discussed by Eva Baker, Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Louis Gomez, and Andrew Ho. Other Commission members will be in attendance.

Expensive Notebooks?

Article from The Economist about education in Peru: “A disappointing return from an investment in computing”