Harvard Tackles Teaching

Harvard kicked off its Initiative for Teaching and Learning with a daylong conference. Thanks Gustave M. and Rita E. Hauser, for the grant which financed the project.

12 Dozen Places to Educate Yourself Online for Free

You can learn anything you want on this wonderful series of tubes! From Marc and Angel Hack Life.

Big Red Feud

"Two Cornellians on opposite sides of the education debate—controversial former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee '92 and teachers' union leader Randi Weingarten '80—sat down with Cornell Alumni Magazine to talk about school reform. (But not together.)"

The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries

Dave Eggers offers simple and elegant advice for dealing with the decline in U.S. Education: make teaching a more attractive profession.