A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

What Did Teaching Social Studies Look Like 70 Years Ago?

“At no time in those years, however, did I ask myself whether these technologies were productive, (i.e., did they get students to learn better?) or efficient  (i.e., did I teach more and faster?). They were available and I wanted to get away from the daily grind of lecturing and managing large-group discussions. I used them […]

“Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids”

“A parent’s first instinct is often to remove obstacles from their child’s path, obstacles that feel overwhelming to them but are easily navigable by us. This urge has led to pop-culture mythology around pushy parenting styles, including the “Helicopter Parent,” who flies in to rescue a child in crisis, and the “Snowplow Parent,” who flattens […]

“Whatever Happened To The Coalition Of Essential Schools?”

“It is gone. What began as Ted Sizer’s ground-breaking effort to reform U.S.’s 25,000 high schools in 1984 reached 1000-plus schools by 1997, the year Sizer retired from CES. By 2017, however, CES had closed operations with less than 100 affiliated schools. Is this another story of a reform birthed in one educational crisis and […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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