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When Leadership Fails: Sarah Lawrence and the Politics of Evasion
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (717+ words) I teach courses on leadership. And I tell my students that in a real crisis, there are only two kinds of institutional response: clarity or evasion. You either name the failure and take responsibility, or you hide behind process, language,…...
No Homework? "No Problem," says Smug Snidely
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (614+ words) The whole thing struck me as a dismal window into classroom culture today. For more insight into what to make of it all, I reached out to'S. Smug Snidely, renowned education school dean at Paymore U and author of the'New…...
The Entitlement Shift on Campus
2+ week, 1+ day ago (944+ words) Recently a student sent me an email asking for help with tuition. The message was polite and sincere. After receiving scholarships and financial aid, the student explained, there was still a gap between what the aid package covered and what…...
Why AI Hasn’t Transformed Math Instruction (and Probably Won’t)
2+ week, 1+ day ago (268+ words) Rick:You've been working at the intersection of math and digital technology for a long time. What have you learned? Rick:How has AI changed how curriculum providers work with teachers and schools? Rick:How do lessons learned from earlier…...
SCOTUS: The Child Is Still Not a Mere Creature of the State
2+ week, 2+ day ago (271+ words) This week's Supreme Court decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta is a reaffirmation of something most Americans already understand and feel in their bones: Parents must not be excluded from life-altering decisions about their children's mental health and well-being. It is also…...
Do Campus Monocultures Create Groupthink?
3+ week, 2+ day ago (463+ words) Yawn. You've heard this litany many times. You've probably also heard it downplayed. Higher ed mandarins mostly dismiss such concerns, as in last fall's much-celebrated'Chronicle of Higher Education'essay, "Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot." They insist,'sometimes at great length,…...
A Solution to Campus Extremism
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (512+ words) Genuine liberal arts learning requires students to wrestle with the best that has been written and said by the most rigorous thinkers, living and dead, on all sides of the issues. The aim of such an education isn't to tell…...
Parents Over Platforms: Why App-Level Responsibility Is the Smarter Path for Kids’ Online Safety
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (371+ words) A video platform optimized for engagement, driven by recommendation engines and social amplification, raises entirely different concerns than an app used to order takeout. Treating these services as interchangeable because they share a distribution channel overlooks the fundamental distinction between…...
Are Schools Caught in a Digital Delusion? A Conversation with Jared Cooney Horvath
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Progress on Absenteeism Is Stalling. What Can We Do About It?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (410+ words) More than five years after the pandemic threw schools off course, the latest evidence suggests that progress toward solving the nation's attendance problem is slowing down well short of the finish line. Indeed, with 202425 chronic absenteeism data now available in…...