Tag: learning

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Although he never said it, Albert Einstein is credited with saying “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Recently I read an article by Robert Pondiscio, requested by the New York Post, asking him to comment on the dismal NAEP scores released recently. Here’s what Pondiscio…

Traditionalists just can’t help but continue to blame device use for falling test scores. The latest to blame smartphones for our kids’ inability to read and solve problems at proficient levels is Martin R. West, academic dean and a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. West writes in a recent EducationWeek…

Happy birthday to my wife of 39 years! Today is her big day. Happy Birthday sweetie! According to a new study covered in a recent article by The 74, although low-performing districts have received more money when it comes to per pupil expenditures, the additional money funded did not make a difference when it came…

Happy Constitution Day! My wife is convinced that my ideas about a new learning system are not scalable. Hiring a gifted learning coach, one for literacy and one for problem-solving, and paying them upward of $100,000 a year for their services, expecting a learning cohort to show 4 ½ years of reading, writing, and math…

Kids aren’t reading as much as they did. Popular opinion blames social media. But maybe there are other reasons. Recently, The 74 published an article titled “Why Are So Few Kids Reading For Pleasure?”: … “Over the course of two generations, from 1984 to 2023, the proportion of 13-year-olds who said they ‘never or hardly…

Kids don’t have to attend school to learn. Today, the world is their classroom, and they should be given credit for their learning wherever and whenever that learning happens. When we ran a personalized learning lab school in Houston, one of the big takeaways was that the city offered a multitude of locations for learning…