Jon Becker, upper school history and English teacher, has 9th grader Demetrios Karavedas stand on a chair and apologize for ...
Recent headlines about Oregon’s education system are less than promising. After years of improvement, Oregon’s graduation rate has stalled around 81%. And the release of national test scores shows ...
Let’s get honest about something we don’t say out loud enough: Most of what we call "student engagement" in schools isn’t ...
The future isn’t about building better schools. It’s about moving beyond the entire concept of schooling and architecting a ...
I wanted a history class that focused more on my history. History is viewed as important because it’s necessary to know where you came from, and this African American history class is teaching me more ...
Motivation is everywhere in education. We’re told to cultivate it, sustain it, and assess it as if learning couldn’t happen without it. It’s common to hear that students need to be supported, inspired ...
Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...
A.I. is fueling a “poverty of imagination.” Here’s how we can fix it. By Meher AhmadJessica Grose and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Vishakha Darbha Artificial intelligence is already showing up ...
Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her ...