
You’re not a ‘visual’ (or ‘auditory’) learner
Nearly all teachers believe that students learn best when taught to their preferred learning style, but there’s no evidence that’s true....

When Coronavirus Cuts Your “Study Abroad” Program Short
Can you imagine getting to study abroad somewhere as exotic as Morocco, and then getting stuck there due to coronavirus? Danford, an...

Closing the Racial Achievement Gap, Or Not
A contrarian view, to be sure, but I can’t say the author’s wrong: In 2015, MCPS (Montgomery County, MD, Public Schools) embarked on a...

Distance Learning
This article makes a lot of sense. I especially appreciate the author’s differentiation between “distance learning” and “online...

Paper and Pencil
K-12 education should de-emphasize computers and graphing calculators in all but the highest math classes. Too many students are allowed...

Postsecondary Math Education
Reports like this make me rub my head and sigh. It’s wrong right out of the gate: Higher education institutions in California and across...

Protecting Student Civil Rights During the Coronavirus Shutdowns
From the US Department of Education: Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — The Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...

Teaching About Gambling
Adding lessons in probability to this course of instruction might make it “stick” better: Education on gambling will become a compulsory...

“Restructuring” Public Education
This author invites a total restructuring of K-14 education: Any restructuring effort must start with getting the funding right, which...

NEA: It’s Joe
The National Education Association announced Saturday that it is backing Joe Biden for president, handing the Democratic frontrunner a...

Songs About School
Trying to stay away from (and allow readers a break from) the obvious story of the day, I thought it might be fun to list some songs...

Lunch Shaming
Free and reduced lunch. Students across the country face the prospect of “lunch shaming” when their parents don’t pay whatever lunch bill...

Consequences
What is left out of a news story can be just as important as what is in the news story. Case in point: On February 28, 54 graduate...

What A Difference A Day Makes
As of yesterday, this was the governing philosophy in Sacramento County regarding coronavirus: California’s Sacramento County is calling...

A Tale of Two Cities
First, San Francisco: A day after announcing San Francisco public schools would stay open as long as possible, officials announced...






