Leadership Think Tank

As King Pyrrhus admitted, some victories can effectively undo a person. Sometimes we, too, fight battles that may not be worth the price of winning.

There are 8 major English dialect areas in North America, presented on the map. These are shown in blue, each with its number, on the map and in the Dialect Description Chart below, and are also outlined with blue lines on the map.  The many subdialects are shown in red on the map and in the chart, and are outlined with red lines on the map. All of these are listed in the margins of the map as well.

I thought it would be helpful to actually, you know, learn a bit about where smartphones started, what they're doing right now, and where they're heading.

The OECD's comprehensive world education ranking report, PISA, is out. Find out how each country compares

The role of educational ipad games has been slowly increasing over time. Now, with apps like Math Champ, we see the future of interactive learning.

Why the U.S. emphasis on "teacher effectiveness" won't by itself really improve schools.

Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling“Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” In this piece he writes about whether the emphasis that American school reformers put on “teacher effectiveness” is really the best approach to improving student achievement.

'Imaginary Factory' - The project takes complex and often mundane items and turns them into simplified, colourful and (truly) gorgeous visual info-graphics.

A few of my faculty members have been asking about ways they can use Twitter in the classroom recently. As I helped them integrate Twitter into their own classrooms, I started developing a running ...