There is a growing and unique role museums can play in reinventing K-12 education. And children's museums are well suited to lead the way.
Never underestimate fear of change, particularly when what is required is a deep shift in attitude. Most of us are so conditioned to deploy both langu...
What if our most important endeavors, those that determine the direction of our country, dictate the quality of our relationships and define us as human beings, could be structured in such a way that everybody wins?
By Carol Smaldino, CSW In the wake of the shattering disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear melt downs in Japan, news reports of the devastatio...
When you think of the recent unrest in the Middle East, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube immediately come to mind. Yet in a...
While the peaceful protests were taking place in Wisconsin, another event was happening in Denver that didn't grab as many headlines and is equally significant.
Here's a look at current trends in teaching and learning, their implications and changes to watch for.
Trina Turk, the California poolside preppy designer's line is turning 15 this spring, and she's celebrating twice -- with two new collaborations.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and AFT President Randi Weingarten are not the only union leaders who are bending over backwards to help reform education.
When Al Attara bought a former bank on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn 32 years ago for under $250,000, he envisioned it as a complex in which artists, ar...
Marcus Troy wants to tell a story. Meet Marcus Troy, a digital and Montreal native that has made a name for himself through blogging about the things...
People need to acknowledge and realize that the uniqueness of our clientele (the students of this country) and our product (their viability in the future) make education a unique business.
We are creating content -- be it data, audio or video -- and we are using an ever-increasing number of applications.
Clearly we need to change the vocabulary of the educational establishment, change the lenses in the camera and in the process awaken to the competitive demands of this new age.
It's really not that new. But the Collaboration can renew and reinvent the University. HASTAC (for Humanities, Art, Science, Technology, Advanced Col...
WHO: Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh WHAT: The Gardens Next Door WHEN: September 16 - November 20, 2010 WHERE: Galeria Filomena Soares Rua da Manute...
This month, SLATE invites the public to rethink classroom design and submit ideas in a competition to build a better fifth-grad classroom.
In the end it's not about whether they win or lose or even how they play the game, it's about whether together the people with the power to change the world will use it to do so.
There is a silver lining in the current economic crisis; this crisis has actually created conditions for a new society to emerge, a society based on cooperation and collaboration.
7 Days, 7 Artists, 7 Rings, is a Huffington Post exclusive game of artist's telephone.
I wrote in my last post about my life-changing experience of being diagnosed with a brain tumor and having a craniotomy three years ago to remove it. ...
Author Matt Ridley says it's not important how clever individuals are; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.
This week, Fortune published a list of the 50 smartest people in high-tech. The focus on individual accomplishments, however, doesn't do justice to what technologists have to be the best at in order to be successful.
Private is not a bad read but it isn't a great one either. It falls into the land of the mediocre and for an author with the talent of James Patterson that shouldn't be enough.
Mr. Patterson plans to partner on his new "Private" series with writers in Germany, Italy, England and Australia. Mr. Patterson has long relied on co-...
