Articles, Videos, Speeches, Poems, etc. on Education and Writing
"The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill" - Heitzman
"Indian Education" - Sherman Alexie
"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" by Neil Gaiman
"Once Upon a Time" by Marc Almond
"Found in Translation" by Michael Cunningham
"For Authors" by Walter Mosley
"Everything You Need to Know about Writing" by Stephen King
"In the Middle of Things: Advice to Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon
"What Makes a Children's Book Good?" by Adam Gidwitz
Gardiner's Multiple Intelligence "Test"
More about Howard Gardiner's Multiple Intelligences
David Foster Wallace "Commencement Address at Kenyon College"
"Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
"As Graduation Rates Rise, Experts Fear Diplomas Come Up Short" by Motoko Rich
Malala Yousafzai Speech to the United Nations
Angela Duckworth: Is Having Grit the Key to Success?
Letter to the White House about free press in the age of social media
TED Talk: Sir Ken Robinson "Schools Kill Creativity"
"Define Playground": Article about Leila Day Nurseries
"School's Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten" Directed by Lisa Molomot / Produced by Rona Richter
TED Talk by Geoffrey Canada (Founder of Harlem Children's Zone)
Early Reading and the Achievement Gap
Should We Invest in Preschools or Prisons?
Twentieth Century Skills Defined
TED Talks on Education
"The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher" by John Taylor Gatto
"Changing Education Paradigms" by Ken Robinson
"What if the Secret to Success Is Failure" by Paul Tough
"The Reproduction of Privilege" by Thomas B. Edsall
"The First Race to the Top" by William Reese
"For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall" by Jason DeParle
"Survival Motion: Notice" by Melvin E. Brown
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
"High School Training Ground" by Malcolm London
"Essay: Books Make You A Boring person" by Cristina Nehring
The first two chapters of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
"The Wall" by Pink Floyd
"Of the Education of Children" by Michel de Montaigne
"Totally like whatever, you know?" by Taylor Mali
"Promiscuous College Come-ons" by Frank Bruni
"Public Schools Separate Boys and Girls" by Motoko Rich
"Under My Skin" by Chris Adrian
“Why Smart People Are Stupid” by Daniel Kahneman
“Why Smart People Do Stupid Things” by Kurt Kleiner
"5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think" by Kathy Benjamin
(technically these are cognitive biases, not logical fallacies)
"Learning to Think Outside the Box" by Laura Pappano
"Democracy and Education' By John Dewey (Published in 1916)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Chapter 2) by Paolo Freire (Published in 1968)
The Charter Schools Vs. Public Schools Debate
The Essential Starting Point is Empathy by Eric Schwartz (founder of Citizen Schools)
The Relevance of Malala Yousafzai today
"For Better Social Skills, Scientists Recommend a Little Chekhov" By Pam Belluck
"We Have Ruined Childhood" by Kim Brooks