A 21st-century Model for Education
It’s Time for a New American Revolution
Part 2: American Democracy Grows Up
Part 3: The Future of Democracy
The Common Sense Party: principals and platform
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Dec. 19th: Public opinion: Constructive dialogue;
Equitable Class Discussions? The Art of Conversation;
School Just Isn’t Relevant. Audience Deliberations;
Finland’s whole child development;
FCS for a modern workforce; Nurturing creativity;
Data & Evidence; Teachers & Lockdown Drills;
Sex & Gender; 8 Translation Blunders;
Advice from The Archangels;
Dec. 12th: The looting of America; Tariff Hikes Price of Bible;
How the Ivy league Broke America; The Gender Gap;
The Tech Industry’s Playbook; A.I. Defeats Doctors?
Teachers Need better PD; 7th grade media literacy;
Students Help Hire Principal. A Culture of Collaboration;
Overhaul civics ed? Schools Should Ask Themselves;
The value of Student Newspapers? Standardized testing?
Trump voters focus group; The Case for Christian Socialism
Dec. 5th: Reich on Trumpism;
Why the Dems lost; Moderation Isn’t Surrender;
The Dems Empathy Problem;
Election update (mine);
Haidt on the Past 10 Years; ‘Age Gating‘.
Relevance in the era of distraction;
Ed. Dept. Principles for Cellphone Policies!
Smartphone Rules; Student essay on Critical thinking class;
What Jesus Actually Said?
Nov. 21st: Why Trump Won?
Improving DEI; How to Stand Up for DEI. DEI Balance?
We Still Agree on More Than We Don’t;
Developing Civic Character; School Vouchers For All?
Mathematical Thinking; Math in Preschool;
Building Math Curiosity; Require Media literacy:
Kareem on Bottled Water; Is sexual identity new?
Transgender Common Sense; Christian beliefs about sex;
“Christianity” Is Not The Religion of Jesus
Nov. 14th: My conversation with Nathan Romig
Libertarianism; Affordable Housing
Nov. 7th: Hard Truths;
‘In Demand’ Jobs; Raising Resilient Children;
The Next Generation of Voters; Give students power;
Students Talk About Abortion, Trump v. Harris…
Lessons from Switzerland: Workforce Prep in 1st Grade?
This School Didn’t Like Traditional Grades.
How Should High School Change? Teacher Prep Needs to Change.
3 Terms to Rethink in Education; 4 Principles for Effective Teacher PD;
Paterno on Paterno; Muhammad Ali
Oct. 31st. Pre-Election Jitters; Jimmy’s Monologue;
Not ‘fascist’ – demagogue. The Archangels on the Election;
Build a Lifeboat; Do they teach civics anymore?
What Makes Us Fall for AI Misinformation?
Integrating SEL Into the Classroom;
The Netherlands are closing prisons.
Crime and homelessness. Helping Classmates Get Along.
Critical thinking? Give opportunities for input;
The Cost of Standardized Testing;
Even in Academics, Focus on Workforce Skills;
George: What is the purpose of school?
Oct. 24th: Elections are Too Long.
What Liberals Miss About MAGA; social-injustice-advice;
Why Isn’t She Running Away With This?
a Closing Argument?.
What’s Wrong With Donald? The Case for a New Civics;
Ask 4th Graders No, really.
A Focus on Workforce Skills;
Oct. 17th: Ensuring a Sense of Belonging;
How schools address mental health.
Collaboration Promotes Deeper Learning.
Students Feel Less Connected; Tim Walz, SS teacher;
Presidential campaigns are not real life.
Why Can’t Harris Just Say This?
Reich on The Roots of Trumpism;
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They Still Won’t Say They’re Sorry.
Democrats reclaiming patriotism;
Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes; A Letter to Neale
Oct. 10th: w/ Dr. Seria Chatters
We Need a New Approach to D.E.I.
Sept. 26th: w/ Terry & Isaiah Watson
Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police:
Sept. 19th: The Tariff Debate;
The Media Sanitizes Insanity;
The mainstream press is failing;
How Schools Survive Polarization;
Thinking in Math Class; Student Agency;
5 Things Teachers Need to Know;
8 Steps to Revolutionize Education;
The Practitioner-Policymaker Divide;
What Is ‘Critical Thinking’?
Ask Teens “Who’s Your Future Self?”
Does Diversity Training Work?
Unions: the Best Way to Power? Work Is Divine.
Sept. 12th: The Fix for Social Security?
The Antidote to Shareholder Capitalism? Start With School Lunch.
Cellphone Bans Aren’t the Cure; A Cure Hiding in Plain Sight;
We Might Miss Wokeness; D.E.I. Isn’t Working;
LGBT w/o the “Community”; The ‘Junkification’ of America;
You’re spending too much on shampoo;
I Swore Off Air-Conditioning;
Why People Aren’t Having Kids; Why Men Are Drifting to the Right. Less Selective Moral Outrage?
September 5th: w/ guest Vicki Fong, of Constitution Day Centre.
Students Learn to Disagree Respectfully;
Teachers Tackle Election Discussions;
The Brain Science of Outrage
August 29th: Young People Exercising Their Voice?
Making Race Skin Deep; Trump’s Evangelical Supporters;
The Made-Up Crime Wave; One Party Is ‘Anti-Family‘
The Speech You Didn’t Hear at the DNC;
In PD, Less Is More. Boosting Student Connection;
Safety Risk or Civic Duty? We’ve Been Here Before;
The Daily Cartoonist; Intellectual Humility
August 22nd: The Psychology of Destroying a Planet;
You’re as Smart as Your Emotions. About ‘Liberalism’;
Alternatives to Reform; Instead of Police;
A Luxury Prison? Another way to create safer schools;
Black Teachers Impact All Students;
Can Civics Ed Safeguard Democracy?
Digital Citizenship; Better Than Success?
From Fear to Love: Neale On ‘Right & Wrong‘
Do What You Can Do
August 15th: Should Religion Be Taught in School?
Should We Teach the Bible? To My MAGA Relatives:
Not the Way to Be a Man; What You Do/ What You Preach;
Therapy for Our Anxiety Epidemic;
Don’t Ignore Polarization in Classroom;
Constitution Day 2024; Let Kids Be Weird;
Music & Student Mental Health; Kamala & the FTC;
Economic growth is not always good;
The physical universe: a by-product of consciousness?
Happiness & Love; You are rational & objective?
July 25th: Robert Putnam: Why You’re Lonely;
Our students need civics; Finish the Job?
America’s civility crisis; Media Literacy Is Essential;
School Belonging & long-term Mental Health;
Cell Phone Bans:
An Insoluble Problem? Reinventing Report Cards:
Sex and Spirituality; 28 Minutes In Hell;
July 18th:
Americans are getting ‘pursuit of happiness’ wrong;
The Source of Trump’s Appeal;
Your Driving App Is Leading You Astray;
We Need to Better Understand Cellphone Addiction.
What Kids think of School. Students Speak Out:
Do Violence prevention programs keep kids safe?
How to Kill Student Curiosity in 5 Steps;
The Mental Shifts That Helped Me Teach My Kids;
What caused the American obesity epidemic?
Joke Swap Reveals a Lot About “Woke Culture”
July 11th: The Case for a 4th of July Seder;
The Center Must Hold; Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly;
Tending the ‘garden of democracy’;
Mr. Rogers on Teaching Civics;
Student Essay on Critical thinking;
A model training program for first responders:
Schools Need a Basic Food Class.
When Teaching Math, Concepts Matter More;
The Archangels on Leadership;
June 27th: America’s Top Export:Anxiety?
This is your brain on screens; About AI in Schools;
Love Matters in the Workplace;
It’s Time for a New American Revolution
June 20th: How to Fight Fascism?
Americans approve of DEI; Chicago’s Community Schools.
The End of ‘College for All’?
Give Every Student a Reason to Attend;
Assessing Creative Thinking; Better Questions in Math Class;
A-21st-century-Model-for-Education
June 13th:
Margaret Chase Smith,1950; Bill Clinton, 1997;
Play Is Essential; Playful Assessment;
Symbolic Violence; The New American High School;
Portrait of a Graduate: Team Teaching;
Why Schools Don’t Teach Critical Thinking;
Better Questions in Math Class. Woodstock
June 6th: School Leaders on DEI; The K-12 DEI Rebrand;
My conversation with Dr. Seria Chatters!
May 30th: The Storm Before the Calm;
Where Americans Aren’t Divided on Education.
The Beef With Lab-Grown Meat;
The Cruelty of the US Legal System;
Giftedness as Neurodivergence;
The Pop Songs You Hate Are Good for Democracy;
Does School Choice Work?
How DEI Rebranding Is Playing Out in K-12.
Improving Behavior w/o Shaming;
8 Steps to Revolutionize Education.
Keep Schools Safe: Involve Your Community;
Standards-Based Grading Empowers Students;
It’s Time for a New American Revolution
May 23rd: Jerry Seinfeld’s Speech;
More graduation advice;
Antisemitic Tropes & Support for Israel;
On the partisan divide: Soviet Life & Censorship;
Making History Exciting; The culture in Finnish schools;
Attracting Gen Z to Teaching;
Could All Education Look Like Project-Based Learning?
The 3 ‘Cs’; Managing the K-12 Culture War Debates;
Music vs. Lyrics. Are We Capable of Changing Our World?
The Age of Aquarius;
May 16th: My monthly conversation w/ Dr. Carline Crevecoeur
From the Center for Mental Health in Schools & Student/Learning Supports at UCLA.
May 9th: Friedman on Campus Protests;
McWorter on the Protests;
Teaching about Israel & Palestine;
Frank on Mindless Chants; Philosopher Larry David;
When Principals Listen to Students;
The Main School Ingredient; Ridiculously Large Cars;
When Fear Mixes With Money; Neale on Pyschics
May 2nd: Protect-don’t idealize-the Protesters;
About Right-Leaning Parents;
Help students to respectfully disagree.
A GOP and a Demconfront our era of bad vibes.
The ‘Manosphere’ Is Toxic. Addicted to Toxic Masculinity.
Everything is a Game. About the federal debt.
It costs more to live near a good school.
Digital wellness class for 6th graders.
A Universal Prevention Measure: We Get Signs All the Time;
April 25th:
The most important thing I teach my students;
How to talk about Israel & Gaza;
Space to discuss tough topics; Where gun violence is common;
More Law Enforcement Is Not the Way;
What if O.J.’s Trial Happened Now?
Teachers: What’s Hindering Learning; Teachers Sound Off;
Poland’s rules against homework; Creating Classroom Culture.
Using Religion to Control Others
April 18th:
My monthly conversation w/ Dr. Carline Crevecoeur
Oblivious About Grades.
April 11th: Eliminating Letter Grades?
Reimagining Mathematics (to Save the World);
History Is Boring? Glenn Loury on Derek Chauvin;
The Problem w/ ‘Sex Assigned at Birth’
What Jodie won’t Ask the Angels.. Why Religion Doesn’t Matter.
April 4th:
Refocus on Civics, for the Good of the Country;
Agreement on Civics Ed;
All-School Meetings & Student Voice;
Teens on the Election;
Most Americans are Pro-Democracy;
AI & Civics Ed; Oblivious About Grades;
The End of Foreign-Language Ed?
Dairy’s Unintended Consequences;
Cyber charter funding reform;
A Message from the Archangels;
March 28th: my monthly interview w/ Dr. Carline Crevecouer.
The Delta controversy; standardized testing
March 21st: Changing the response to mental health calls;
Town Meetings: Democracy Embodied.
End Phone-based Childhood;
Innovative High Schools; Standards-Based Grading;
The Challenge of GPAs & College Admissions;
America Fell for Liquid Death
March 14th:
Americans Want the Immigration Bill Congress Won’t Pass;
60 Minutes & Moms for Liberty;
Teacher-Parent Communication;
Sotomayor & Amy Coney Barrett;
Nobody Wants to Look Stupid:
Teacher Hiring Process;
Preparing Teachers for today’s school climate.
Teacher-Parent Communication;
Making Math Meaningful;
Playwright Michael R. Jackson;
The Original Lord’s Prayer
March 7th: The supermajority for democracy
What Standardized Tests Actually Measure;
Restorative Practices in School;
“We used a behavior chart on adults” On Prioritizing school culture;
International Baccalaureate Ed; 5 Myths of Self-Awareness;
Plastic makers lied about recycling; Ultra-processed foods & health:
Habits From Living in Japan; When Does Life Begin?
Feb. 29th: Is Education Optimizing The Wrong Outcomes?
On Traditional Grading; What Teachers Learned.
Why We Don’t Want To Be Wrong;
Hiring For Learning Potential. On Mental Health in School;
Discontent w/American Education;
Beyond the Classroom; Black Parents on Black History;
Teens Divided — Like Their Parents. OK, Boomer:
Embedding conflict resolution in the classroom;
A Way To Understand the Bible; The Cure for Democracy.
Feb. 22nd: . Too much math?
Forget Memorization? Math is Figuraoutable;
Do we Want Our Kids to be Critical Thinkers?
History isn’t pretty; Diversity Increases Success;
AI Makes Humanity More Important;
What does successful education reform look like?
A vision for education; Take the Risk out of Failure.
What Abbott Elementary Gets Right;
Americans Think About Safety Wrong;
How to Block Out the Noise; Reich on Countervailing Power;
Jay Paterno on College Football; Jodie on Yeshua
Feb. 15th: Why math needs to change;
“HS math doesn’t prepare students for college”
Are-students-getting-the-math-they-need?
Community schools; Talk Is Literacy;
Reducing Cultural Conflict; The great education heist;
Don’t ban cellphones? “Why Do We Have to Do This?”
On fixing a snowblower; On ‘Equitable’ Grading;
Our outdated educational system; Rigor or Vigor?
Black Moms Want School Choice; Progressives & Choice:
Greene on Cyber Charters; The Archangels on the Bible;
Take the Bible Literally? 10 Things We Forgot About Jesus;
Jan. 18th: Reining In the Vouchers; Inequitable school funding;
Superintendents frustrated over standardized tests;
PA’s Keystone Exam Circus; Beyond the Carnegie Unit:
Tackling School Absence; Norway’s Prison System;
Why are bullies so mean? Relationships matter in education;
Helping Teachers Love Their Jobs? Transforming High School;
Arts education builds better brains; Growing Prosocial Brains;
“Math is Useful -and Boring”; Cultural Appropriation ‘Outrage’
Einstein’s Advice; A Letter to Neale;
You’re Not Entitled to Your Beliefs;
The Archangels Comment on the Bible; War is never good;
Ten Things We Forgot About Jesus; On Hotel Showers
Jan. 11th, 2024: Civics Is About Skills.
Teaching social studies in a polarized world;
About DEI; The closing of the teenage mind;
Teaching positive psychology skills;
Can Everyone Be Excellent?
News literacy; Reinventing High School;
I Don’t Really Have an Opinion About That.
The Myth of the Market; Freedom & Power;
Portrait of a Graduate; The reason for SEL;
“I Don’t Pledge Allegiance”