February 8, 2025
Minimizing Classroom Distractions to Maximize Student Learning:Building Walls to Buffer Politics, Phones, Prejudice, and Preferential TreatmentListen to a summary and analysis of this Blog on the…
July 13, 2024
The Seven Sure Solutions for Continuous Student and School Success: “If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Get You There” (Part I)[To…
April 13, 2024
Laundromats, Lawyers, Learning Loss, and Life: An Autobiographical Day in Education[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this Blog on the “Improving Education Today: The…
January 13, 2024
While Grades May Be Meaningful, It’s Still About the Skills:“Resolving” to Recognize that Report Cards are Less Meaningful than Student Mastery[To listen to a synopsis…
September 23, 2023
Twelve Critical Components for (Continuous) School, Staff, and Student Improvement:Motivation Cannot Compensate for a System with Systemic Deficits[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of…
November 23, 2019
Analyzing the Results of a New National Study: Why Some “Two-Dimensional Problems” Need “Three-Dimensional Thinking”Dear Colleagues,Introduction Every day, I get e-mail briefings discussing or analyzing…
April 27, 2019
When Schools Struggle with Struggling Students: “We Didn’t Start the Fire”Dear Colleagues,Introduction The last two weeks have been a blur. Just over two weeks ago,…
September 7, 2015
Reading Proficiency, Unprepared Students, Untrained Teachers, and Ill-Advised Responses: A National Dilemma and New National ReportDear Colleagues,Since the early 1990s (and even before), our schools…
January 31, 2015
Connecting and Correcting the Flaws in (ESEA's) High Stakes Proficiency Assessments of Students' Academic Achievement and (OSEP's) the New Special Education Results Driven Accountability SystemDear…
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