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.

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

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

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

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.