Response to John Merrow’s advocacy of Project-based Learning
John Merrow has started a series of posts advocating project based learning. I just posted the following to his website: Last Week, Water. This Week, AIR. (The Series Continues) John, It’s...
View ArticleWho’s Telling the Truth about Alabama’s Constitutional Amendment One?
As a former member of the Alabama State School Board (2003-2019), I would like to share my concerns about the ballot language for Amendment One. When voters get a ballot on March 3, this is all that is...
View ArticleK-12 is a land of mystery
Bruce Dietrick Price*For those who enjoy a good puzzle, K-12 education is more intellectually entertaining than most people imagine. Classrooms are full of convoluted theories and mystifying methods....
View ArticleWhat can we do now: Education in America is a victim of Covid 19
AL’s education rating is already at the bottom of the heap nationally, but I don’t think any states are faring well today, and I don’t think any states have a solution. Am I alone in thinking that...
View ArticleHere’s how Idaho can develop academically strong ELA and Mathematics...
By Sandra Stotsky, Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas Idaho can develop effective non-Common Core standards for mathematics and English/reading if its Legislature requires the development of...
View ArticleBreaking the Spell of Math Reformists
by Ling Huang, Palo Alto, California In “My Childhood Schooling In The Soviet Union Was Better Than My Kids’ In U.S. Public Schools Today,”...
View ArticleAcademic Fitness
A few years ago I was at a conference of a few hundred History/Social Studies educators, consultants, etc. at the Center for the Study of the Senate in Boston. I was introduced, as The Concord Review...
View ArticleStanford Professor Jo Boaler’s Math Revolution and War Against Algebra 2
Recently, Stanford GSE professor Jo Boaler, the foremost champion for reform math, has scaled up her campaign to displace algebra 2 with “data science” in American high schools:...
View ArticleHoping for a Stronger Focus on Public Education after November 3, 2020
Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education—someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has...
View ArticleK–12: The Life and Death of the Mind
By Bruce Deitrick PriceThe life of the mind. This lovely phrase states what education is supposed to be about.. All things bright and cerebral. Play chess. Write a story. Devise a plan for any goal....
View ArticleComments of Mary Byrne to Springfield, MO public schools board on critical...
Mary R. Byrne, Ed.D.December 8, 2020______________________________________________________________ I’d like to address Focus Area 5, Goal 1 of the 2019-2020 Strategic Plan End of Year Report that will...
View ArticleHershey Profits Fund $17 Billion Endowment for Nonprofit School, but Board...
(This story was originally published by ProPublica.) by Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign...
View ArticleRare Books
There is a general consensus among EduPundits that teacher quality is more important than student academic work in producing student academic achievement. That is mistaken. There is a general...
View ArticleCheating in the Classroom: We all have a choice
I was naive about cheating as a student, so I was also naive as a professor. Then one day a student complained to me about cheating during my exam.That put me in an awkward position.The culture of my...
View ArticleRate Busters
Will FitzhughThe Concord Review1 September 2021Back in the day, when Union contracts specified the number of widgets each worker was expected to produce during a shift, that number was called “the...
View ArticleReading Before Writing
Will Fitzhugh, The Concord Review8 September 2018The extra-large ubiquitous Literacy Community is under siege from universal dissatisfaction with the Writing skills of both students and graduates, and...
View ArticleDo We Still Need Public Schools?
Sandra Stotsky, April 2022Do we still want a chief policy maker in in the Department of Education with little classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 who has never administered a middle or high...
View ArticleThe absolute worst “real world” problem I have ever encountered
by Joye WalkerIt was in the UCSMP Algebra 2 book and I encountered it during my first year of teaching. Here was the opening linear programming example.***Stuart Dent decided to investigate one of his...
View ArticleIowa Academic Standards Hold Teachers Hostage
By Joye WalkerI retired more than a year ago, giving me many months to process the discomfort I felt in my last few years of teaching. It was a difficult time for many reasons, but one big reason...
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This Private Equity Firm Is Amassing Companies That Collect Data on America’s...
Vista Equity Partners has been buying up software used in schools. Parents want to know what the companies do with kids’ dataBy: Todd Feathers Over the past six years, a little-known private equity...
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