Tag: students

I’m a big fan of Ira Glass and This American Life. It is one of the best radio shows/podcasts available these days. If you haven’t listened, I encourage you to do so. A few weeks ago, the show focused on fairness. I’ll spare you the details of the entire program. What I want to focus…

When I worked in public education, it was amazing to me how much all of us fell in love with the “70.” Under the Texas accountability at the time, if you got 70 percent of you kids to pass the state’s high-stakes test in either reading, writing, or math, you were considered a “recognized” campus.…

High school graduation season, for the most part, has come and gone. Graduates are getting ready to prepare for college or possibly the work force. Seniors have been recognized for their academic achievement by being named cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude. Valedictorians and salutatorians have given their speeches congratulating their fellow…

Here’s a Best of the Best article originally published for The Education Game back in 2021. What happens to the world if COVID-19 doesn’t disappear for the next 50 years? How does the human race survive climate change? What happens to America and the world if more governments become less democratic and more become autocratic?…

Here’s another Best of the Best from the archives. I wrote this article for The Education Game back in 2021. Hope you enjoy it. Traditional schools struggle establishing relationships within academic settings. Most schools begin their relationship-building by the teacher receiving a student roster telling them who is assigned to each of their teaching periods,…