The Look Teachers Know By the middle of the school day, I can usually tell when a class has hit its limit. It is not always loud. It is not always disruptive. Sometimes it is the opposite. Students sit quietly, stare at their screens, reread the same direction three times, click between tabs without purpose, […]
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Curriculum Associates, Maker of I-Ready, Responds to Lawsuit
Curriculum Associates, the education technology company behind the widely used I-Ready learning platform, is facing a civil lawsuit over its handling of student data — a legal challenge the company is firmly pushing back against. The lawsuit is one of several similar actions filed against education technology providers in recent months. Curriculum Associates maintains that […]
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The Journey to the Ouibette: My New Promotion
If you have read me, or have been reading me, or if this is the first time you’re reading me, then you have/or now will see that I can be deeply cynical, sardonic, and throw jokes under the radar that you might not catch unless you’re listening. One thing that is not any of those […]
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How Schools Can Rebuild Student Belonging: Strategies That Improve Engagement, Mental Health, and Academic Success
There is a crisis of student disengagement. Many students feel disconnected from peers, teachers, and their school community. Elevated rates of absenteeism, depression/anxiety, and loneliness among students worries teachers, administrators, and parents. Students spend a large portion of their time in schools. Students learn best when they feel seen, valued, and connected. Teachers and administrators […]
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Jahque Bryan-Gooden: Redefining Education Through Justice, Culture, and Joy
Jahque Bryan-Gooden’s journey in education is as vivid and layered as the classrooms she envisions, a space where every child’s humanity is honored, their culture celebrated, and their potential nurtured. From her earliest memories at age nine, she recalls walking through the ruby-red doors of a school in Harlem, greeted by a rooftop garden, a […]
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ICE Raids Caused Enrollment to Drop. Now Districts Are Paying the Price
As leaders ask lawmakers to help fill budget gaps, conservatives escalate the debate over serving undocumented students. By Linda Jacobson This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Community members packed a high school […]
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When Numbers Tell Stories: Connecting Math and English in the classroom
Some educators may balk at combining English and Math under the heading of language arts, while some students might unhappily conclude that learning math is like learning a foreign language. There’s truth in the latter view considering, for example, that the basis of solving word problems algebraically is translating words into math expressions. Math is […]
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Protecting the Brain in the Age of Bypass: How to preserve critical thinking when shortcuts are everywhere
Our students aren’t broken. In fact, if we look at what we as a society have trained them to do, they’re performing extremely well. We handed them devices engineered by the most sophisticated attention architects in human history, we gave those devices to them younger and younger, and we stood by while algorithmic platforms spent […]