The United States has entered a “learning recession,” according to a new Education Scorecard report. Nationally, eighth-grade ...

In As a Rule, Forget About Rules, I asserted that most classroom disciplinary rules are unnecessary, which raises the question: What rules are necessary? And the answer, of course, is going to vary ...

Back when Jill Vialet was a kid, she used to play with her neighborhood friends for hours at a time, unsupervised. It seemed unstructured, because no adults had established any parameters. But in fact ...

One of the inevitable first-day-of-school tasks for elementary teachers (and many secondary teachers) is introducing the class rules. So it’s no wonder teacher-bloggers have taken up the topic this ...

We’ve been predicting a technology revolution for decades, and actually, it happened 5 years ago. We are now past the tipping point. Suddenly, we find that higher education no longer has a corner on ...

The goal of education is to help students prepare for life. In the 20th century, the education system largely did this by teaching specialized knowledge and skills that matched the needs of that time.