Tag: learning

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! I’m back from a brief hiatus. It’s good to be back. There are certain indicators that our current K-12 system is broken and might not be able to be fixed. Primary amongst those indicators is the fact that our traditional school system has not done a good job at educating…

Like most strategies, personalized learning works, if done well. But when it’s not implemented the right way, personalized learning can become nothing more than self-paced software or digital content playlists that lead the learner to a convoluted end, lacking rigor and creating mushiness. This week Robin Lake, executive director of the Center on Reinventing Public…

Limited vision has always been a problem for our traditional K-12 school system. The system is mired in 20th century, and sometimes 19th century, practices like an August to May school calendar, a curriculum that goes a mile wide and an inch deep, and student assessments based in rote memorization. So when education savings accounts…

Homework? Anytime, anywhere learning? Which one will win out moving forward? EdWeek posted an article recently that suggests homework might be a thing of the past: “A new survey conducted by the EdWeek Research Center suggests that the amount of out-of-school coursework assigned to students ahs fallen, in many cases because students refuse to do…

George Will has written over 8,000 articles as a columnist for The Washington Post. It was a story about Will’s prolific opinion writing streak that led me to start A Better Path to Learning. Will was interviewed, after his 8,000th article appeared in The Post, about how he found so many topics to write about…

A big part of a school system’s purpose is to prepare young people to be valuable members of the workforce. It used to be schools, and the rest of the world, knew what skills kids needed to get a good job after high school or college graduation. But now that has all changed. With the…

When it comes to learning, there’s too much blame assigned to young people inside our traditional K-12 system. Blame that usually translates into a failing grade. Math teacher Emma Chiappetta shared her experience with turning mistakes into learning opportunities in a recent article posted by ISTE+ASCD (2/1/26): “On an October afternoon my algebra class, Carson…

Improvements to artificial intelligence are moving extremely fast these days (see ABPTL 2/19 post “Tomorrow as Today”). The potential impact on young learner’s ability to improve their reading, writing, and problem-solving skills is promising. Take for example virtual tutoring. Although most virtual tutoring models still include a human element in the form of a certified…

Public school advocates are suing to keep money in their coffers instead of paying private school tuition through education savings accounts or vouchers. According to an article appearing in EducationWeek online, “Private school choice is surging across the nation – but not without opposition, as many state-level programs are embroiled in court challenges.” “Judges in…