Let us return once more to the time of burnt-orange and avocado-colored kitchen appliances. It was a time when you considered a friend extremely lucky if he got more than three channels on his family television—a 27-inch screen (with something called a picture tube) embedded in a piece of furniture the size of a small…
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The Unknown Future of Hand-Generated Communication
My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. Monday, January 23, 2012, was the date and Washington, DC, was the place where I was supposed to be. Clearly. Yet my invitation to the conference Handwriting in the 21st Century? An Educational Summit never arrived. Clearly an oversight I do not expect to see happen…
The Next Great Debate? Probably not.
The next great cataclysmic education reform debate is about to erupt with the power of several hundred burning suns. Or maybe not. Perhaps the next great education reform debate will fizzle out like a damp firecracker in a rainstorm. Cursive handwriting: in the standards or not? Mrs. Worthy, Mrs. Singer, and Mr. Winters all managed…