A Better Path to Learning

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  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday. Time for the Roundup. Team Teaching Reduces Turnover Compared to Going Solo, New Research Finds (EducationWeek) If you’re old enough, like I am, you’ll start to see the same news stories reappearing, trying to convince readers that the story is “new.” Witness a recent post in EducationWeek pointing to new research suggesting that…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday. Time for the Roundup. Pre-K Teachers Are Stressed and Say They Want to Quit (The 74) Nothing is more important to building a strong reading, writing, problem-solving, and character development foundation than early childhood learning, and nothing is more important to early childhood learning than the adult learning leader attached to those little…

  • Headed Right in the Wrong Direction

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    It’s Thursday and it’s Juneteenth. I’m a big country and western fan, and Vern Gosdin is one of my favorites. Gosdin recorded a song titled “Right in the Wrong Direction” back in 1990. It’s a song about a common country and western theme – cheating. But it could also be the title of Donald Trump’s…

  • Changing Times

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    It’s Wednesday, June 18th – I’m back from a short absence. Members of the Democratic Party have started to question whether the way our traditional K-12 system currently runs is the best way to get all kids smarter and stronger when it comes to reading, writing, problem-solving, and character development skills. Instead, the Democrats have…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday! Time for the News Roundup. No More Fresh Fruits and Veggies: Schools Grapple With Loss of Federal Funding (EducationWeek) EducationWeek reported last week that, “Vickie Dunaway, the school nutrition director for the Milan Special school district in rural West Tennessee, can rattle off an impressive list of fresh fruits and vegetables that were…

  • How to Improve (Teacher) Morale

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    I use a lot of EducationWeek material in my postings. The information they provide and the reporting they offer is excellent – usually. But this week they shared information for district leaders titled “The District Leaders’ Guide to Shoring Up Teacher Morale.” I’ve been part of and around the K-12 educational world since 1984, and…

  • Time…The Final Frontier

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    Time. It’s one of the most difficult challenges for our K-12 system to master. Ask them about anytime, anywhere learning and they give you a serious “deer in the headlight” stare. The traditional system is much more comfortable with the time allotted for learning they’ve been using for, well, at least 180 years now. Around…

  • Trump’s Cuts

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    I wonder who decided the cuts made at the U.S. Department of Education and exactly how those decisions were made. Did the decisionmakers have any educational experience? Were decisions to keep a program or shuck it based on data? The whole process was just so, well – vague. But that’s kind of how our current…

  • Trump’s Educational Moon Shot

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    If there’s one thing our traditional K-12 system could do to immediately improve their status as a place where kids will become smarter and stronger, it’s this: Figure out a way to give all kids credit for learning completed outside of the normal school day and school year. Researchers tell us that today’s youth are…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    Here’s your Friday News Roundup. Bill to Scrap STAAR Test Dies in the Texas Legislature (The Texas Tribune) Last week, “A legislative effort to scrap the STAAR test to respond to concerns that the test puts unnecessary pressure on student died in the last days of the legislative session.” On one hand, like a school…