Over the past decade, the Gurian Institute has trained more than forty thousand teachers in more than two thousand schools and districts, both coed and single-sex. The institute's trainers have worked with public and private schools, Montessori schools, and a variety of charter and independent schools in fifteen countries; it has therefore been…

Interest in improving the quality of professional development in this age of educational reform has intensified as a growing body of research suggests that teaching practices matter in terms of student achievement. Some have argued for embedding professional development in the context of teachers' work in order to transform both teaching practices…

Discussed the implementation of the open education system of education and the problems accompanying it. (RK)

The author argues that the impact of educational technology has been blunted by a failure to understand what it is and what it can do. He states that educational technology has been misunderstood and oversold. Lessons for the successful application of technology in schools are presented. (CH)