A Better Path to Learning

Category: Learnings

  • Unhappy Youngsters

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    Why are so many youngsters unhappy, and what can we do about it? Earlier this month, Arthur C. Brooks attempted to answer the question in a post appearing in The Atlantic. Brooks writes, “We’ve heard a lot lately about how miserable young Americans are. In the recently released World Happiness Report, the United States dropped…

  • Raising the Bar

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    What makes a great learning organization? The 74 polled 186 educators involved in the Canopy project, a collaborative effort to share information about K-12 innovation, about the information they use to determine whether their schools are doing a good job. Here are excerpts from that post: “School options are proliferating, with the Trump administration and…

  • Crossing the Line

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    Today the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 to prevent Oklahoma from approving the nation’s first religious public charter school. NBC News reported that, … “The decision by the evenly divided court means that a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that said the proposal to launch St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School violates both the…

  • Everyone Is Cheating!

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    Homa Tavangar from The Big Questions Institute wrote an interesting piece this week titled “If ‘Everyone is Cheating,’ What Questions Should We Be Asking?” Here are excerpts from Tavangar’s post: “At a recent workshop with a few dozen Heads of School at independent schools in the U.S., one of the participants expressed yet one more…

  • What’s In a Grade?

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    After almost a month away from the post, I’m back today. I spent the last three weeks in Turkey – specifically Izmir and Istanbul. If you are ever thinking about a place to visit that might not be tops on your list, think Turkey. The food is delicious (“lessetli” in Turkish), the people are wonderful,…

  • A Bad Decision? Part 2

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    Did America make a mistake by not keeping K-12 schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic? A new book, authored by David Zweig, titled An Abundance of Caution, suggests so. But an article appearing in The New York Times last month tells us that K-12 leaders are still debating whether schools should have been closed and…

  • A Bad Decision?

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    Did America make a mistake by not keeping K-12 schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic? A new book, authored by David Zweig, titled An Abundance of Caution, suggests so. Last week, The 74 posted an article highlighting the story: “Just a few weeks into the COVID pandemic, veteran New York journalist David Zweig began looking…

  • Possibly a New Way Part 2

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    Today we continue to explore a new learning leaders’ program at Moravian University, led by Dr. Randy Ziegenfuss and his team. Education Reimagined recently posted a story on the Moravian Ed.D. program, of which Part 1 was shared here last Thursday. Today, Part 2: “In the Moravian Ed.D. program, these five learner-centered principles aren’t just…

  • Possibly A New Way

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    I’ve told this story before, but it’s worth telling again. Years ago, I had lunch with the dean of education at a public university located in Houston, Texas. I wanted to pitch him an idea for a new way to educate adult learning leaders. The idea revolved around training a corps of learning coaches to…

  • More on Grading – Again and Again

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    How do we know young learners are learning what they are supposed to be learning? This is one of the most important questions in the learning world. In our K-12 public school system, “grades” usually make it to the top of the list asked how our traditional school districts answer the question. But grades and…