#860: Social media and kids’ declining mental health, with Michael Horn
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Michael Horn joins Mike Petrilli
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Michael Horn joins Mike Petrilli
Noble is the desire to bend our system toward the needs of our most disadvantaged students—students who are disproportionately poor, Black, and Brown. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about this. Leveling up is the right way. Leveling down is the wrong way. Expanding access and opportunity is the right way. Lowering standards is the wrong way. Guess which way is gaining steam?
Almost everyone wants to raise teacher pay. The push comes in various forms and from various places—mostly recently a proposal by Congressional liberals to create a $60,000 floor under teacher salaries. Yet we’d have far more generous teacher pay today if we hadn’t opted to hire more teachers and support staff over the years rather than raising salaries.
Recently, Jo Boaler—a Stanford professor and one of the country’s foremost scholars of mathematics—took to the Hechinger Report to write about pandemic learning loss
Classical education seeks to develop the whole person by reconnecting knowledge and virtue.
School transportation problems have been big news
The breakout rookie season of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy was anticipated by his stellar performance on the S2 Cognition test, one of two standardized tests taken by NFL draftees.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast,