Author: E.T.Wilson
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Attribution Errors in America’s Classrooms
Cause and effect aren’t always clearly and correctly paired in America’s classrooms. Teachers don’t always have the time, energy, or awareness to properly attribute underperformance. Is ... -
Intelligence in America: Time to Test Something New
Measuring the progress of any endeavor requires a definition of success. Education, by its very nature, is difficult to ascribe a single definition of success; “making ... -
What Preschool Can Teach Us About Choice and Opportunity
There is a pantheon of sitcom cliches that, no matter how many times they’ve been done before, always turn up in new ones. Among the repeat ... -
Students Searching for Universal Data
I love looking at the cellular data network coverage maps showing where your phone will be able to connect to the Internet. Every carrier has their ... -
Time to Reboot the Safety Lecture
When we play the perennial favorite game of Blaming Other Generations, we tend to focus on relative merits and deficiencies: which generation is more or less ... -
A Healthy Education Puts Literacy First
For all the quibbling done about teaching more relevant skills (STEM is the go-to for this rhetoric) and better preparing students for productive careers and to ... -
Teachers Pay Extra for a Purposeful Career
Balancing purposeful work against profitable work is a tension in every industry and profession, but for teachers the scales are tipped from the outset. Nationally, teachers ... -
Education Should Begin with Problem-Solving
When schools compete, who wins? That depends partly on how they compete. In the world of higher education, universities compete for enrollment: more students, and more ... -
Health Education Provides Mixed Messages
Is it possible that America’s schools are responsible for most of the country’s health problems? Yes, these institutions of education–from the K-12 staples to universities, colleges, ...
