On April 6, 2022, the House Labor, Health and Human Services committee heard testimony from Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond entitled, “Social and Emotional Learning and Whole Child Approaches in K-12 Education.” The science of learning in the last ten years has … Continued
How might we envision new classroom procedures that attend to the latest research findings? Without getting bogged down in the research, let’s sketch out what classrooms might look like. Adapting to—and Implementing With—Student Learning Teachers are quite successful when they … Continued
Teachers and students are back in K-12 schools but the negative effects of the pandemic on schools are just beginning to be documented. We generally know that less students showed up to schools, less teachers renewed their contracts, and less … Continued
There are new grants from the Education Department called Competitive Grants for State Assessments. These grants are part of a larger thought that we need to re-design the type of assessments we use in schools and the use we put … Continued
The New Hampshire Commissioner of Education, Frank Edelblut, has proposed to narrow the State’s curriculum in order to allow teachers to focus on the core domains. Included in the core are English, Math, Science and Social Studies. The biggest change … Continued
Let’s say there are no more resources, no more time, and no more political ways to change education. If all we can do is reorganize our work in schools, how would we do that? So many school reforms ask us … Continued
Education Stops for War As the Russian war of aggression continues, my thoughts turn to students who are displaced by the war, the teachers and schools that have experienced this chaos, and the parents who must turn to picking up … Continued
On Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights movement for voting rights, the marchers’ cause became America’s cause, and it remains a very brave step forward. President Johnson joined this cause, perhaps because he had … Continued
Teacher Shortages Media coverage of American K-12 teacher shortages have appeared regularly over the last ten years. The reasons for this decade-long decline involve a set of policies that are not always aligned across states, but the Pandemic has contributed … Continued
Researchers work very hard to gather relevant data in their work. When designing a study, researchers carefully consider their main question, the number of K-12 students or teachers involved in the study, and the types of answers they can draw … Continued