The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards

44 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2018 Last revised: 13 Feb 2019…

A thesis for years is that our public schools use inferior methods. These methods are subtle and complicated, so that the ordinary person does not see the deception. Teachers may not see the deception.

One of the fun parts of studying education is you get to look at these anomalies and decide hey, this is a clunker. It should be eliminated. 

It's tedious to…

This CA High School Aims to Guide All of Its First-Generation Students Into Professional Careers. It’s Getting Close.

Nationally, just 11% of first-generation students from low-income families complete college. In contrast, 80% of Eastside College Preparatory…

To support every student in their intellectual and personal growth every day.  This, I believe, is the purpose of public education. Students will struggle to "grow" in either area if mental health issues prevent them from developing the cognitive regulation, emotional regulation, and social/interpersonal skills appropriate for their developmental stage. June 30, 2019, Sunday edition of the New York Times featured an article titled, What You…

How would SAT-only admissions affect diversity?

What a sad and shocking story this has been. For 85 years our Education Establishment has kept the public schools of America tied up in knots. Reading was not taught properly. We ended up with 50,000,000 functional illiterates. And all of this was accomplished by a tsunami of lies and disinformation.

Anybody who participated in this fraud should feel guilty for the next 10…

Excerpt from the short story Teddy by J.D. Salinger

“What would you do if you could change the educational system?” ….

“Well...I’m not too sure what I’d do,” Teddy said. “I know I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t start with the things schools usually start with.” He…

A quick way to understand why K-12 schools are such a mess.

Consider where we were in 1853. "Per Siljestromm, a Swedish visitor, wrote, 'In no country in the world is the taste for reading so diffuse as among the common people in America.'"

And we have gone from there to 50 million functional illiterates.

"K-12:  Red…