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DeSantis’ Take on AP African American Studies Was Principled
DeSantis’ Take on AP African American Studies Was Principled. The Media’s Response Was Not Now, the long answer. My experience is that the press has generally offered a stilted, inaccurate picture of what this debate is all about. As I’ve documented, media coverage related to “critical race theory” has tends to mischaracterize substantive concerns and…
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How to Build a More Effective School Board
How to Build a More Effective School Board AJ Crabill has been training school board members since 2016 with the Texas Education Agency and the Council of the Great City Schools. He’s now out with a new book, Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How YoursCan Become Effective. Winner of the Education Commission…
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What Teachers Get Wrong About Creativity
What Teachers Get Wrong About Creativity Creativity flourishes when you give students the freedom to explore, within limits. I answered questions about this topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: If you ask people whether or not creativity is important, they’ll say it is. So why does it seem like society prioritizes…
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What Students Should Know About the Power of Practice
What Students Should Know About the Power of Practice Whereas repetition plus reward leads to automatic, effortless habits, repetition plus goals for improvement plus feedback generates a different benefit: ever-improving expertise. If you do your homework in the same place and at the same time, day after day, studying will become a habit. If you…
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Here’s What Students Think About Using AI in the Classroom
Here’s What Students Think About Using AI in the Classroom Now, it’s time to hear what some students think about the topic. As part of a two-week unit on artificial intelligence finishing this school year in my IB Theory of Knowledge classes, students wrote short paragraphs answering this prompt from Facing History: What impact do…
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How AI and Other Tech Tools Might be Used to Strengthen Family-School Partnerships
How AI and Other Tech Tools Might be Used to Strengthen Family-School Partnerships One of the many challenges highlighted by the pandemic has been the lack of communication between so many parents and educators, fueling frustration on both sides. Well, back in 2018, I chatted with Heejae Lim, the founder and CEO of TalkingPoints, about…
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How to Fix Classroom Misbehavior
How to Fix Classroom Misbehavior Asaf Mazar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. What can I do when a student keeps misbehaving even after they repeatedly promise to improve? It’s not easy for students to change ingrained habits. Here’s something I wrote related to the topic for…
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Schools Are Trying to Do Too Much
Schools Are Trying to Do Too Much Over the past year or two, there’s been a lot of talk about educational “unbundling.” I’m glad. After all, more than a decade ago, I helped import “unbundling” into K-12 when I penned the ASCD book Education Unbound, which delved deep into the idea; edited a special section…
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‘A Nation at Risk’ Turns 40: Its Roots, Its Legacy
‘A Nation at Risk’ Turns 40: Its Roots, Its Legacy Forty years ago this month, in April 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education, created by then-U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, issued “A Nation at Risk.” In a furious call to arms, the report declared, “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted…
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