Timothy Egan's essay examines the value of creative efforts vs quantifying and producing, particularly relating to the political penchant for reducing education to only quantifiable goals.

Creativity can be fueled by limitations.

An overview of some of the creativity courses being add to collegiate curricula.  It also discusses what is taught and some of the methods employed.

An Op-Ed piece by David Brooks that looks at what we can do that computers cannot do very well or at all.  It points to five things that education might seek to develop in our students.

A description of what FB can do with your actions, posts and clicks and how you can control what FB does with that information.  Sort of.

A high-school student with autism becomes an advocate for a better understanding of autism.

Nocera discusses "The New Republic" - a documentary film about teaching in a new Brooklyn high school (new in 2006), and the trials of learning classroom management in this trying environment.  His discussion focuses on the need to do a better job of training new teachers in classroom management.

Though-provoking piece about the kinds of skills might be needed in a future dictated by mega-data analysis.  It speculates how people might be needed to keep the "human" in "humanity."

This is about more than just taking choir in high school - it is a fundamental problem in our educational system examined here by a high school senior. Only 12 minutes long.  When my sons were in HS (they graduated in the mid 1990's), I remember their discussions of just exactly this problem. He offers some solutions, but no quick fixes.

A essay pointing to the need for better, more rigorous teacher training as an important way to create significant, meaningful improvement in American Education. The Keller points to some programs that offer hopeful solutions.

It is amazing the number of people who attribute their success to a significant background in music.  Granted, I am a music teacher, but there seems to be more and more articles/stories/studies that point to a correlation.  It is not a particularly causal relationship (that is really hard to prove), but there is definitely a relation.

Schwartz is a professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College.  Here he presents a case for working at sustained attention in schools.

An essay on freedom in America, and particularly in journalism and education

Results of a study published in Neurology that adds weight to the idea that dementia onset can be delayed by lifestyle factors such as reading writing, exercise and diet.

An essay on an effect of Common Core Standards on the selection of literature to be studied, particularly in middle school

An essay on the effects of implementing Common Core Standards and testing related to those standards.

Essay about the value of teaching, particularly at the collegiate level

A study explores the difference in problem solving between the "play" approach that children use, and the more structured approach used by adults.

This essay is an attempt to provide an overview of evaluations and reforms in American education since the 1983 report, "A Nation at Risk". It goes on to point to directions that have largely been unexplored here, and ways that, in the author's opinion would facilitate more meaningful reform, reform that begets improvement.