Author: Scott McLeod

  • Margaret Spellings is under fire

    [Day 3 of my guest blogging…] U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is under fire. Not only is the Department of Education dealing with the Reading First corruption scandal, challenges to the reauthorization of NCLB, and blowback from the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, apparently Secretary Spellings also is receiving…

  • Be careful, be critical

    eSchoolNews has a fantastic letter from the editor regarding the federal government’s recent evaluation of learning software for schools. The editor lambasts reporters’ overblown headlines, inappropriate and overbroad conclusions, and failure to adequately criticize and critically reflect upon the report and its accompanying publicity material. There was a recent dust-up at Dangerously Irrelevant as well…

  • Permission to fail

    I’ve got high schools on my mind. A high school teacher told me recently that her school allows students to try harder courses than they normally might take. For example, students might sign up for an Honors English class instead of a regular English class or an AP Government class instead of a normal Government class. These…

  • Don’t hold your breath

    [Thanks, Wesley, for the opportunity to be a guest blogger at Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll do my best to live up to the challenge of blogging for a larger audience than I typically get at Dangerously Irrelevant.] One of the key beliefs of many edubloggers and educational technology enthusiasts is that digital…