Another Student-Involved Assessment Experiment 

Inspiring Others

Teaching the last backpack generation

By Zachary Walker on March 6th,…

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Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition

By Amber M. Winkler

THE EDUCATION GADFLY WEEKLY

A wise wonk once wrote that the biggest challenge facing America’s schools is the enormous variation in the academic level of students coming into any given classroom. The subject of this NBER…

Motivational Style as a Key Consideration for Leaders

“Do you play to win – or not to lose?” ask social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson and Columbia University professor Tory Higgins in this intriguing Harvard Business Review article. “People answer these questions in very different ways, and that’s the challenge at the heart of good management – whether you’re managing your own performance or someone else’s.” [Although this article is…

Tracing Technology's Unintended K-12 Effects

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once famously said, "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle." Though he was speaking about the…

Second Chances

WHY YOU SHOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT PUTTING A TV IN YOUR KID’S BEDROOM

Posted on March 6, 2013 by …

I write about education six days a week. My main motivation is that I’m sure the public schools can be much better at less cost.

Another big motivation is that I’m continually disappointed by the powers that be -- big media, the business community, the military. All of them complain about education but none of them actually gets involved. They don’t push the Education Establishment to do a better job. Our movers and shakers, alas, do not move and shake all that…

Companies are spending billions of dollars on TV, print, and digital advertising to swing us towards their products and services. From watching the Superbowl to checking Facebook on mobile phones, we’re flooded with images and slogans of how we should live, how we should look, and how we should act.

Consider this: We are one of the only countries that allow…

Guest Post By John Thompson: The Texas Standardized Test Revolt

Children and the Environment, and How Our School System Can Help

by Hayley Scott

As report after report comes out about the inevitable demise of Earth’s finite resources, people around the world plead internally for change. Schools teach it, newscasts explain it and scientists research it. However, as positive as any awareness is, true change needs to be practiced for any actionable evolution to take place. One location that…