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A little about a lot. Take home pay for Oklahoma teachers has increased about 17% since 2018, about half the rate of inflation. Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill last month raising teacher salaries by $2,000, but when that increase is calculated after taxes, it translates into less than $6 a day. According to a…

What comes around goes around. Back in the 1990s, when I was a middle school and high school principal, educational researchers told us about the importance of school principals and their effectiveness on teachers, parents, and most importantly, student outcomes. Now, a report released last month, titled “The Principal Effect: How Investing in School Leaders…

A Better Path to Learning has written about the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom before. The Center was mandated by the Iowa Legislature a few years ago, but now it’s back in the news based on low enrollment during its first year of existence. Last week, the Des Moines Register reported that Governor…

Learning is hard work. Most of the time it involves struggle. Too often it leads to failure. Back in 2000, when I was a young principal opening a brand new high school, I came across an article titled “Positive Deviant.” Fast Company printed it inside their monthly magazine (there wasn’t such a thing as online…

“’We all technically, legally own the place,’ Will Xu told me last year. We were sitting at a picnic table on the campus of Deep Springs College, a tiny, experimental school in the California desert where he is a student. The White and Inyo Mountains were ringed around us.” Deep Springs College offers a different…

My wife left a New York Times article on my bedside table recently. The title, “You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education” caught my attention. Molly Worthen, a University of North Carolina history professor, is the author. If you’ve read ABPTL for a while, you’ll know that my wife and I have a…

Part 2 this week on AI: America is embroiled in a love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence. As The Atlantic plainly stated in a May 13th article: “America is both the world’s foremost developer of AI and its chief hater.” The article continues: “….The AI industry has spent recent years warning of a jobless future. So…

It’s mid-week before the Memorial Day holiday. Let’s use this time to discuss two very different tales involving artificial intelligence. Today we discuss AI and how it will continue to change how we view testing and cheating. Tomorrow we’ll talk about how AI is impacting our current and future job market. We’ve talked about how…