Tag: The Learning Counsel
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What’s Wrong with Kids Today?
By Ryan L. Schaaf Many educators share great concern about their students’ lack of ability to learn the way others did in the past. Oftentimes, these concerns are expressed by teachers who have been in the classroom for a long period of time. Some complain their traditional teaching methods are just not as effective ... -
Teaching Kids about Innovation
By Charles Sosnik Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with an old friend, Chris Besse. I met Chris a few years ago when he was CEO of a company called Freshgrade, a Canadian education company that displays, saves and documents student work – energizing students and bringing parents into the equation in a ... -
Why Today’s Math Textbooks Just Don’t Add Up
By Al Noyes Pick up a traditional high school mathematics textbook and you’ll see that it was authored by a number of collegiate luminaries, put through a series of pilot tests, and run through numerous developmental cycles over a period of time. After getting feedback and input from various schools and experts, the textbook ...


