Who knew the answer to all of our challenges was so simple that it could be written in bullets on the back of a napkin? Recruit top performing students from public schools. Label non-randomly selected samples of “lowest-performing” students and
Read MoreIt’s Cursive! It’s Cursive!
A bombshell study published this week by a team of meta-researchers who reviewed the data on everything by everybody ever studied in education, suggests that the answer to field’s woes is much more simplistic than ever imagined. The culprit? Cursive.
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Questioning Ourselves
You don’t need me to tell you that education is facing a crisis in funding, teachers, and, most importantly, confidence. When it feels like so many people outside the public education sphere are not supporting our mission through action, it’s easy
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Playing the Victim
We’ve become a world of 0’s and 1’s, coded for speed in decision making, processing, and response. This is true in a literal sense, with algorithms impacting our daily lives in ways we don’t even realize, but also figuratively. We’re emotionally
Read MoreTrump and Your Local Schools: Radical Reform or Just Talk?
In my prior post, I began to outline the potential impact of President Trump’s still forming education team and agenda. It is critical to remember that as he fills his Cabinet positions and defines his relationship with the Republican-controlled Congress,
Read MoreWhat Does a “President Trump” Mean for Education?
My friends know that two of my major personal and professional interests merged this week, as conversations began about the future of education policy in America after the election. Thus, I’ve been asked a lot of questions about the potential
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The Tale of Teacherless El
This past week included National Poetry Day. So, in honor of this little known holiday (Did you get any Poetry Day cards or gifts from friends? Me neither!) I offer you this contribution, as a follow up to my
Read MoreThe Bad Things Are Here
Projected challenges often seem far in the distance, hazy visions of bad things to (maybe) come. In education, we’ve been talking about the assault on public education for so long that we’ve grown to accept future hazards as the norm. A
Read MoreUnintended Consequences
In the already unsexy world of education policy, I’d like to dabble in a subtopic that is even less so: education finance. Before you frantically pound the escape button on your keyboard to back out of this blog, stay with
Read MoreYes, Never, and “Meh.”
In my prior post, I assigned you homework. And, no, you may not be excused to use the restroom at this particular moment – I’ve used that trick a thousand times and know it well. Nice try, though. If you found
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