Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at the same time.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.