Category: Learnings

Skills or knowledge? Which one should learning leaders focus on? As The 74 reported in a post (9/30/25) recently, “…it is ever more common for school districts and states to publish ‘portrait of the graduate’ – a vision of the well-educated student. As a review of this collection of portraits reveals, there is little emphasis…

It seems artificial intelligence might be decaying the trust built between a teacher and their students. In a recent posting by The 74 (9/22/25): “Researcher Jiahui Luo of the Education University of Hong Kong in 2024 found that college students in many cases resent the lack of ‘two-way transparency’ around AI. While they’re required to…

America’s K-12 schools have lost 1 million students since the 2020 pandemic. Some enrolled in private schools, utilizing voucher money approved by mainly red state legislatures to pay for it. But others created smaller learning organizations like enhanced homeschooling, learning pods, and microschools. After five years, the Rand Corporation decided it was time to evaluate…

Iowa has made public education news recently, for all the wrong reasons. Governor Kim Reynolds and other state leaders are attempting to make the case for Iowa to receive block grants from the federal government, which gives the state flexibility in how to spend funds historically dispensed by the U.S. Department of Education. According to…

The biggest challenge we faced while I worked in the Houston public schools was getting kids to learn to read and then read to learn. Now, new research suggests that both activities are grounded in a time much earlier than when young learners report to pre-K or kindergarten. The 74 reported last month that, “Given…

We’ve discussed Oklahoma and that state’s recent peculiarities when it comes to running their public education system. It seems the Sooner State can’t stay out of the spotlight. Recently, The Atlantic reported in a two-part Radio Atlantic podcast that, “Testing the line between church and school is a recurring American theme. In Pennsylvania in 2004,…

Have you ever wondered why kids don’t receive credit for learning outside of school? It seems like the only time and place young learners are rewarded for improving their reading, writing, and problem-solving skills is while they are at a place called school. But we know from experience that learning happens anytime and anywhere. So…

If you want to see a room full of teachers start squirming with nervousness, just start talking about “equitable grading.” Equitable grading is a process by which teachers are asked to meet and discuss to define what accommodations and grades mean for their course (for example, what does it mean to earn an “A,” or…

“If I see a black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor [Swift]. You’re not in charge.” “We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.” “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately,…