Published Articles & Media
The Metric That Matters Most: Ask Kids, “Are You In?”
The first and most important relationship most children have with a civic institution is with a school.
Come to Jesus
Effort parties, data walls, reading logs, and “warm/strict” — a look inside Success Academy
How Socrates Invented Social and Emotional Learning
What used to be called character education is unlikely to be effective if it is divorced from its moral and religious foundations.
“Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong”
What the work of Mauricio “Lim” Miller, an Oakland, California-based social services pioneer and MacArthur “Genius” fellowship recipient, means for education.
Don’t Dismiss That 30 Million-Word Gap Quite So Fast
Differences in the early language environments of children do have a significant impact.
If Education Advocacy Were More Like Pharmaceutical Ads
Imagine the disclaimers and warnings about potentially harmful side effects of today's promising practices and reform initiatives.
AFT Misses a Chance to Demand that Teachers Get Support They Need
Teachers are angry about inadequate training and poor curricula.
Teach Students to Love America
Infusing children with a love of reading is laudable, but a love of country is indispensible.
Kids as Political Props
Sen. Dianne Feinstein revealed the hollow core of fashionable ideas about civic education and "action civics" when she refused to play along with student "activists" who confronted her.
