April 4, 2016 Bullying and bemusement, Student engagement, Opt-out justice, Teacher turnover, Startup charters, Choice policies, Public funding, Common core, Chicago strike, Effects of choice, National opt-out, Kids cast, Schools on grit, Grit response, Why Finland?, Secrets of hiring, Outstanding books, and Better questions.
March 28, 2016 Deeper learning, Not public, School conditions, Educational injustices, Grassroots revolt, Residents positive, ALEC cashes in, Test results, Corporate privatization, School leadership, Leaders in the middle, Innovations, Pluralism, All children, Longer school day, Superintendents learning, Implementing RTI, Concussion research, Quietest students, Researchers blast CC, and Interview questions.
March 21, 2016 Workers or citizens, Superintendents leaving, Next interview, Playground time, Presenting data, Three trends, Emotion vs. logic, turnaround districts, Firing teachers, Blaming teachers, Teacher rights, After school activities, Teaching students, Voucher hammer, and McCleary crime scene.
March 14, 2016 Achievement gaps, Reporting abuse,Why private schools, Future of public schools, Teacher education, Charter schools, Leadership and change, ALEC education, Fixing Charter funding, Lopez v. Schwartz, Literate nation, Teaching career, Constitutional objections, Replace teachers, School start time, Teaching math, and Debating school choice.
March 7, 2016 Poverty and kids, Debating choice, Charter poll, State accountability, Teaching effectiveness, Teacher characteristics, Best teachers, Profitship schools, Motivational habits, Deeper learning, Interactive annual report, Flawed reform, Finland brakes rules, Don’t fail Idaho, Inaccurate Idaho, Innovations and the world, Introverted teachers, high-tech helmets and Opting-out PTA
February 29, 2016 Bumkum award, Perfect team, Teaching math, Delaware PTA, Kid chores, Late blooming, C students, Those who understand, Impact on poverty, Get rich, Charter schools, Achievement gap, Homework and Rural schools
February 22, 2016 Reflecting on reform, Education politics, Houston’s VAM, Urban teaching, Low income, Examples backfire, Best practices, Horace Mann tweets, Democratic education, Charters and subprime, California’s charters, Wealthy elites, District defies odds, Public education for sale, Black hole, Charter brand, Abusive teacher, Kindergarten inequities, Integrating charters, Common core, Outside play, Biggest regrets, Walk-ins, Indentured student-athletes and Corporate reformers.
February 15, 2015 HML highlights, Reform ideas, Women in leadership, Technology funding, Changing world, Outstanding educators, Nation’s finest, Superintendent and media, High stakes testing, Teacher data, School choice, Value of education, Charters unconstitutional, Kids needs and Physical education.
February 8, 2016 Annual Mtg Registration, Horace Mann tweets, School and creativity, Gates’ machine, Fantasy campaign, Technology musings, Charter chains, Organized minority, Virtual reality, Opting out, Letter grades, State report cards, Big money, Spirit lives on, CC obituary, Teacher shortage, Beginning teachers, Testing opt out, Voucher supporters,and small town success.
February 1, 2016 Annual Mtg Registration, Four takeaways, Creative children, Teacher observations Evaluating teachers, Motivating teachers, Machiavelli’s wisdom, Choice week, Billionaire takeover, Kids overworked, Teacher preparation, Business as usual, Child poverty, Public pays twice, Rethink choice, School communications, Spending on education, School startups, Wall Street’s image, Ten No choice, Sex education, and Superintendent’s quotes.
January 25, 2016 Annual Mtg Registration, ESSA end-game, Graduation data, Best and worst cities, Understanding poverty, No excuse charters, Vouchers and achievement, Kindergarten tramas, Teacher shortage, Whose dollar matters, E-days for snow, Teacher greatness, Professional learning, Secret to happiness, Teacher source solutions, District teacher preparation, Charter slowdown, Measurement fails doctors, Building effective teams, and Rethinking adminssions
January 18, 2016 Outstanding educators, HML Annual Meeting, Charter cheerleading, Board takeover, Achievement gaps,Teasing and computers, Youth violence, Charter schools, Union fees, Freeloaders, Teacher unions, Hope and schooling, and Your influence.
January 11, 2016 HML Annual Meeting, Reform cycles, Better choices, Privatization, Restoration, Privatizing schools, Charter schools, Standardized tests, Charter schools, Education journalism, Families choose, Online charters, Privatizers, Future of schools, Corporations, Media failures, For profit colleges, Integration anomaly, Readers like, VAM Michigan, Education 2015, Courts and charters, Fixing schools, Rural schools, and Quality counts.
January 4, 2016 Happy New Year, HML Annual Meeting, Accountability for Golf and Dentistry and Football and Farming, Opting out, Children and stress, Testocracy, Education 2015, Computers, Teachers, Change, K-12 trends, Politics, and Lessons learned.