The Classroom Must Change
Despite strong market signals that they will continue to fail financially and/or fall short of achieving their missions, few U.S. universities have tried grading reform as a means of attracting…
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Florida Fights Education-School Radicalization
Schools of education are among the most leftist, politicized jurisdictions on college campuses. Ed schools more often than not adopt the ideology of critical pedagogy to the exclusion of other…
The Post-Truth Classroom
Veritas. Lux et veritas. Veritas vos liberabit. Truth. Light and truth. Truth will set you free. These are the official mottos for Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. They reflect a…
The Truth-Teller
People in the education policy and funding worlds don’t like Sandra Stotsky. For years she has been a robust critic of too many things educators, ed school professors, school administrators,…
Student Learning Outcomes and the Decline of American Education
Educational fads always come with a shelf life; the implacable resistance of reality eventually makes them expire. Usually, the promised educational miracle has done more harm than good. The wreckage…
Are Professors Going Too Fast?
I doubt that many people think of college professors as harried and overburdened to the point where they’re putting their very health at risk, but two Canadian English professors, Maggie…
Here is how academics ruined the critical thinking movement
Here is how academics ruined the critical thinking movement
The English major has lost its way; here is a path back.
The English major has lost its way; here is a path back.
Part 1: Why having students work in groups can be a good pedagogical approach
Why having students work in groups can be a good pedagogical approach
Part 2: Here is more evidence that group learning fails students
Here is more evidence that group learning fails students