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A look at Finland's education system, and what makes it work. All thought-provoking stuff, though I think it can't be forgotten that our population is much larger than theirs.

From the article: "We have the content and we have the skills to build our own GarageBand for education."

How do you transform factory era school systems so that they better serve the needs of an information age society? Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents give it a go.

Manifesto about transforming education. 

Never bad to reflect...

Great rant against the "dogooders" of literacy campaigns. From the article "So, every day "we," led by politicians of dubious education and intentions, and by self-enriching dogooders like Pam Allyn, label children as pathologically diseased because their brains don't work exactly like "our" brains. And then, we administer daily doses of humiliation because we somehow forget that someone like Socrates managed to know a whole hell of a lot without being "literate" at all - and, in fact - opposing literacy in every form."

Relates well to the article on math participation by Solomon

focused on rethinking education. Features researchers such as James Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen