Couple great large-scale projects with the evolving efficacy of elective online coursework and strong communities built around collaborative learning, effective advising, explicit exploration of values and social issues, and ever-popular athletic or performing arts programs, and it seems to me that schools of the future could easily encompass all the compelling ideas of the present. Read Full Post >
After fighting one war after another, at great cost, for democracy, we shame ourselves when we let it slip through our fingers so fast. Read Full Post >
We no longer need to ask, "Is it possible?" All educators have been liberated by proof that it is ... Read Full Post >
Part of the complex moral message we are teaching the young in school is being aware of the trade-offs that complicate life. Read Full Post >
The oft-repeated verbal attacks on poor people's "bad habits" has led to poor pedagogy and missed opportunities, starting at age 4 and 5. Read Full Post >
How, in a no-excuses school, do students appeal if they believe the penalty is unfair? Read Full Post >
What's cool to me about the education reform space now is that traditional systems and charter organizations throughout the country are finally collaborating in meaningful ways to help more kids. Read Full Post >
Would KIPP's founders and leaders argue that it would be a good experience for all kids or only for "certain types"? Read Full Post >
I came into education assuming that our task was and always had been to produce a learned, thoughtful, and tenacious "ruling class." Read Full Post >
Certainly overall salaries of teachers are held down by the failure to recognize that some teachers are more effective than others. Read Full Post >
