Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & More
Sir Christopher Lee and Edgar Allan Poe went way back. Or at least they went as far back as 1969, the year of The Oblong Box, a loose and lurid film adaptation of the eponymous story starring Lee and ...
What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It
Latin is a language As dead as dead can be; It killed the Romans long ago, And now it’s killing me. That famed ditty isn’t likely to resonate with many modern school children, but interest in ancien...
What Will It Look Like If Investment in Learner Wallets Pays Off?
What if a 12-year-old's sketching habit, a 19-year-old's gap year travels, and a 45-year-old's volunteer coordination all counted as verifiable learning? In a new piece for Getting Smart, Mason Pashia...
Leading With Your Heart and Guarding It Too: Lessons on Sustainability from Fifteen Years of School Leadership
Leadership Begins with the Heart For 15 years, I tried to be the kind of school leader I would have wanted, which was one who met everyone’s needs all the time. I believed leadership begins with kindn...
We’re Teaching Kids to Read. Are We Teaching Them to Think?
When an 11-year-old gets a polished ChatGPT answer faster than his parent can form a thoughtful one, something important comes into focus: access to information was never going to be the hard part. In...
What happened to Finnish education?
By OECD Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher For much of the first two decades of this century, if … More
Why learning can’t stop when the lesson ends
The lesson goes well. The student follows the explanation, works through problems with the teacher, asks a good question or two, and leaves feeling like the material finally makes sense. Three days la...
The School Choice Debate Looks Different From My Kitchen Table
This op-ed from Georgetown, Texas mother Courtney Parker Lopez offers what the school choice debate almost never surfaces: a ground-level, human account of why one family left public school, how they ...
The Dark Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Famous Photograph, Taken Four Days After a Laudanum Overdose
In the Halloween season, one American writer comes to mind more often than any other: Edgar Allan Poe. That owes in large part to his famously macabre tales like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Am...
When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)
Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Be...
When an 89.4 Becomes a Crisis: Rethinking Precision in College Grading
The Decimal Point Problem During one of my first semesters teaching introductory biology labs at the college level, a student approached me after class visibly frustrated about a final grade. The diff...
The future of educational equity isn’t just more resources–it’s more access to experiences
When we talk about educational equity, the conversation usually focuses on resources. Do students have highly qualified teachers? Updated textbooks? Modern science labs? Reliable internet access? Thos...
How Vincent van Gogh’s Sister-in-Law Worked Tirelessly to Make Him Famous
No artist, no matter how solitary by nature, becomes a cultural phenomenon alone. That’s even true of such an isolated figure as Vincent van Gogh, whose death in obscurity at the age of 37 left open t...
Community-Guided Teaching: Building Relationships Before Course Design
A Relational Framework for Community-Guided Teaching in Higher Education In higher education, many instructors want to include Indigenous perspectives, experiential learning, and community-engaged ap...
Empowering Educators Through AI: A Simple Approach to Classroom Coding
Discover how educators can harness AI tools to enhance creativity and collaboration in coding, making classroom experiences more engaging and impactful.