Tag: students

About a month ago, my friend sent me an article written by Mark Bauerlein, emeritus professor at Emory University, celebrating the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom in an article titled “How Red States Are Replacing Woke College Classes With Real Education.” Here are excerpts from Bauerlein’s article: “Things are happening in higher education,…

When I was a school administrator, I experienced two violent student deaths – one by stabbing and one by a gun shot. Those were the worst days of my professional career. Last week, three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher were shot by a 16-year-old gunman in Bend, Oregon. EducationWeek reports that…

It’s Thursday and ABPTL will be off tomorrow, so let’s focus on “A Little About A Lot”: Trump, Bucking Congress Yet Again, Cancels $100 Million for Education (EducationWeek) This past September, “The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for expanding college-level foreign-language instruction and…

Gen-Z’s engagement to traditional school (and what goes on there on a daily basis) is improving, but recent research tells us that engagement still has a long way to go to be considered acceptable. The 74 reported last month on a report released jointly by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation about Gen-Z’s attitude toward…

Artificial intelligence is dominating the news these days, and nowhere is AI more of a buzzword (or a buzzkill) than in the K-16 education world. Last June, The New York Times Magazine highlighted AI and its impact (or misguided impact) at San Jose State University: “Last spring, newly admitted students to San Jose State University…

You must wonder why kids and families put up with bad schools. In this country at least, too many young learners and their closest kin just keep showing up to sucky schools. Sure, some families vote with their feet and head to the suburbs or private school, but most kids who are trapped in really…

In 2010, chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam was diagnosed with a large aneurysm at the base of his thoracic aorta. In his TED talk, Musallam talks about the confidence his surgeon displayed before his open-heart surgery. When Musallam asked where that confidence came from, the surgeon provided three answers: The surgeon’s curiosity drove him to ask…

If teachers survive the onslaught of artificial intelligence, then most assuredly they will have to change their classroom practices. “In 2017, Alex Campbell, a sociology teacher at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee, offered his students the assignment of a lifetime: Could they solve a notorious series of cold-case murders that had stumped law enforcement for…

Sometimes you need to win in court to ensure change. The 74 reported earlier this month that, “Most homeschoolers now piece together a variety of classes and outings for their kids. In the north Pittsburgh area, that often includes enrolling in Roots Learning Academy.” “Know as a hybrid program, Roots serves roughly 150 families who…