Tag: students

I ran across an article in EducationWeek recently, titled “What It Will Take to Transform Public Education (in 4 Charts).” Written by Elizabeth Rich, the article states: “The EdWeek Research Center heard this summer from more than 1,000 educators in a nationally representative survey on their ideas about whether the pandemic transformed public education. Remarkably,…

Recently I was sitting outside at a coffee house with my wife and daughter. I was trying to figure out approximately what time I would arrive in Cincinnati if I left Des Moines around 7 in the morning. I’ll spare you the details of the subsequent conversation, but let’s just say I wasn’t getting the…

At the beginning of this school year, Will Richardson, co-founder of The Big Questions Institute, wrote a letter to returning public school educators. Part of that letter can be found below: “While every school is different, every school shares a common goal: to help children learn. (If that’s not one of your goals, you may…

EducationWeek released a report this past May titled “Laptops and Learning: 5 Trends in K-12 Education in 5 Charts.” What is revealed in these charts is interesting, especially if you are someone like me who is frustrated by the implementation gap between a young learner’s desire to learn virtually and an adult learning leader’s ability…

Like most issues in America these days, there is a raging debate about “learning loss.” Because of losing school time due to the COVID pandemic, some fear America’s youth are falling behind in their reading and mathematical problem-solving abilities, while others feel young learners haven’t lost much ground in those areas and, instead, have become…

We must be careful not to let traditional school districts control the conversation when it comes to young learners and their ability to learn virtually. If you would just listen to the traditionalists, then you might get the feeling that every kid struggled with out of school learning over the past two to three years,…