Close Schools - Bring on the Snow

With 5000 schools closed across the UK many people took the opportunity to play in the snow.  I am reminded of the lyrics: let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.  It seems like a fantastic opportunity for people to learn and enjoy.

The State is responsible for choosing schools

Education Week looks at a case in Louisville, where the court judged that it is right that the state should choose the school that children attend.  This affects state or public schools only; and it means that students do not necessarily attend the school closest to them.  It is an interesting judgement, one than might avoid sink schools by catchment area.  It needs to be done well, however.

IPads in Schools - a teacher celebrates the possibilities.

I love the enthusiasm of this teacher.  Having begun a doctorate in New Technologies I gave up, three years later, concluding that technologies are an educational tool, not an answer.  This luddite tendency continues; though as an ex-teacher, it still gives me a thrill to read such an excited account.  My own feeling is that technology is too changeable still to have a lasting effect; the IPad will soon be outdated.  I am happy to be proven wrong, however.  If you wish to decide for yourself click here to read more.