The life of a fourth grader is an alarmingly busy one. The schedules of fourth graders are often inundated with the pressure to pursue task

If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a

Public schools are hemorrhaging teachers. And they have been for almost 50 years. Although Covid played a large part in the teacher burnout crisis, the

A public school teacher named Sarah recently opened up to us about the decaying interior of public education. It’s a story of low salaries, high

A noble profession has reduced teachers to being overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated – and leaving education in droves. Public school teachers are in the midst

Fifty years ago in parts of Central and South America, being a deaf child was almost unimaginably isolating. Deaf kids were usually kept at home,

In our recent newsletter, we discussed the problems with the constant measurements we force onto our kids. Measurements, according to Goodhart’s law, stop being good

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John Dewey, the 20th-century educational reform philosopher, once voiced his fears about our nation’s obnoxious obsession with test scores: “Our mechanical, industrialized civilization is concerned

The history of the American public school system has been a long, multi-faceted attempt to “correct,” coercively if needed, the peculiar individualism of the American