Matt Emerson

October brings the World Series and Halloween and for teachers it rsquo s that mid-semester point when we accept that our school year will not go as planned The syllabus has gone through a couple revisions the course calendar has been reworked and we start to hear the footprints of December rsq

As readers of this blog know I 39 ve addressed some of the ways that students are harming themselves and others through the destructive use of Facebook Twitter and other forms of social media These same concerns were the subject of a controversial op-ed in yesterday 39 s Wall Street Journal Th

Last week while discussing the Common Core State Standards CCSS I wrote that whether quot people oppose or support the CCSS conversations reflect the same assumptions that mark most proposals for education reform The implicit idea seems to be nbsp that if we just had a certain program or idea

The latest post from Matt Emerson at our new blog, ‘The Ignatian Educator’

Over the last few months as I 39 ve tracked the debates about the Common Core State Standards CCSS which I 39 ve written about here I 39 ve become intrigued not just by the wrangling over content but by the way the standards are spoken of or treated nbsp Whether people oppose or support th

quot All men quot said Aristotle in the Metaphysics quot desire by nature to know quot I think Aristotle is right and I see this confirmed almost every day with my own students It is confirmed everywhere in fact Our culture centers itself around the acquisition of knowledge on mastering b

A former student of mine alerted me to an article published yesterday nbsp in The Chronicle of Higher Education with the enticing title quot Welcome Freshmen You Don 39 t Deserve to Be Here quot In the article Kevin Carey director of education-policy at the New America Foundation offers his