Modern Learning

Has This Crisis Really Changed Schools?

With respect to those who stand in awe of all that’s changed about schools in the past few months, I would ask “what’s actually changed?”

I don’t mean to minimize the incredible work that educators around the world have done to respond…

To Create the “New Normal” of Education, Start With the “Old Normal” of Learning

The Parent Opportunity

Right now, we have millions of parents shouldered up to their children trying to help them do school. I’m reading a…

School as Fiction

Writing a New Story of Schooling

I’ve been expending a lot of bandwidth lately reading and thinking about the meta story of school, not just the history of the system and of pedagogy, but, more specifically, the motivations behind the story we’re…

Standardized Personalization

Just for the record, if you’re an advocate for “personalizing” learning, then you need to do more than just…

On Learning…In School

New rule: Whenever we talk about learning, we should distinguish between learning in the real world and learning IN…

What Matters?

Do we value what works more than we value what matters?

Cut To the Test

Final exams, SAT and ACT, pop quizzes, state standardized tests…