A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days – a sobering lesson learned
The following account comes from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her building. Because her experience …
Category Archives: Research
Grit, character and academic success: thoughtlessness, part 3
As readers may know, a new book is getting a lot of national press these days: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, …
The student voice, Part 3. The most interesting work of the past year
One of the most interesting and revealing questions on our survey of middle and high school students involved their answer …
The Student Voice – Part 2
In my previous post about the extensive student survey we conducted, I noted a few oddities that I want to …
My radical view of the just-released SAT data and the perpetual correlation of test scores with SES
It is a longstanding ugly fact in education: the child’s socio-economic status is tightly correlated with test scores. The just-released …
A 21st century approach to writing reports – and homework
What if you read the following in the sports section: “WISCONSIN appears to be in the driver’s seat en route to …
