Category: Learnings

Here’s an ABPTL post from August 2, 2022. Enjoy a “Best of the Best.” Before I rode across Iowa on a bike last week, I had a chance to read an interesting article in EducationWeek. Written by Jeff Frank, an associate education professor at St. Lawrence University, the title of the article was “Want to…

Most adult educators are losing their minds these days because they can’t figure out a way to test their young learners’ knowledge without risking those young learners using artificial intelligence to either aid in providing the answer or providing the answer in total. Walt Hunter, a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and…

“What happens when an entire community begins to see itself as responsible for the education of young people? What happens when local businesses, nonprofits, artists, scientists, leaders, neighbors aren’t just occasional visitors and trip hosts, but they really become coeducators? The future of education is not about making schools better. It’s about inviting the village…

Iowa is in the public education news lately. The Daily Wire reported earlier this month that, “…Iowa led the nation with the first Workforce Pell Grant program in the country approved by the U.S. Department of Education. According to a press release from the Department, it is ‘a major milestone in expanding faster, more affordable…

Back on July 28, 2026, ABPTL wrote this about Mike Miles, the current state-appointed school superintendent for the Houston Independent School District: “ABPTL has been hard on Mike Miles, the state-appointed superintendent assigned to lead the Houston Independent School District back in 2023. But now, based on new test data, it seems like Miles’s reforms,…

Traditional school people tend to look down on summer camp education. Most think that camp is nothing more than something kids do to pass the time until “real” school begins in late summer. My experience with summer camps and other out of school learning opportunities suggests that young learners benefit greatly from these non-formal experiences,…

“This summer, the Texas State Board of Education approved a new required-reading list for public schools, mandating what the state’s 5.4 million students will read in every grade from kindergarten to 12th. …What made the Texas list controversial is the inclusion not of a new book, but of a very old one: the Bible. Students…

Like free speech in too many circles these days, student voice is under attack inside our traditional K-12 school system. Student voice is the serious process of listening to young learners about how they like to learn and what they like to learn. Sometimes it’s referred to as learner agency. The Atlantic, in an article…

“At the beginning of each new class, Al Rabanera lets his students know that he knows they’re using AI.” “’I’m not going to pretend like you aren’t,’ he tells his students. ‘I know it’s readily available for most of you, if not all of you.’” “A math teacher at La Vista High School in Fullerton,…

It seems advocacy groups, worried about declining performance on the part of our K-12 school system, are suggesting that vouchers are the cause. One national group making that case is EdTrust, a Washington D.C. think tank committed to advancing policies and practices to dismantle the racial and economic barriers embedded in the American education system.…