From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model – NYTimes.com “The primary aim of education is to serve as an equalizing instrument for society.” That’s not exactly how I would have defined the aim of education…

Everything You Know About Education Is Wrong – Jordan Weissmann – Business – The Atlantic Study reveals what correlates with high test scores. My question is, what goals of education do high test scores correlate with?

Cosmic Log – Can physicists crack the big puzzle? “If you’re a Beethoven, if you’re proposing some symphony and you don’t publish it, the chance that somebody else will create the very same symphony someday … well, that just doesn’t happen. But in the case of science, nature has already constructed the symphony, and we’re […]