In the Driver’s Seat: GripTape Learning Report
In 2015, an organization called GripTape began a new experiment to see what would happen if young people were put in the driver’s seat of their own learning. GripTape’s most …
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The Year of Thinking Forward
In the Center for Public Education’s blog, The Lens, Robin Lake lays out 10 bold new ideas to push the education field toward the future. How can a shift in …
From Fragmentation to Coherence
Fragmentation in education limits our ability to provide students with what they need to succeed. Students lose out when the adults in their lives get pulled in different directions. They …
Having Just One Black Teacher Can Up Black Students’ Chances of Going to College
Recently, in Education Week, Madeline Will summarized a new study from Johns Hopkins University that finds that if a Black student has just one or two Black teachers in elementary …
Mind the Gap: Will All Students Benefit From 21st Century Learning?
In an economy driven by technological innovation and a complex social landscape, schools must invest in instructional approaches that allow students to express more agency over their learning and create …
Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and Students Thrive
Schools are the engines of economic and social mobility, where the virtues required for citizenship are wrestled with and practiced, and where the foundations of a robust and dynamic citizenship, …
Project Management: An Essential Skill for Students
Janice Walton recently wrote a piece for Getting Smart, focused on the need for students to practice and apply Project Management skills in the K-12 classroom. She writes: One of …
Leading Trauma-Sensitive Schools
Schools play a significant role in supporting the health and well-being of children and youth, including those affected by traumatic experiences. In a trauma-sensitive school, all aspects of the educational …
What Students Can Show Us About How School Is Letting Them Down-and How to Fix It
Three years ago, TNTP set out to understand how so many students could graduate from high school unprepared for the lives they want to lead. To find out, they followed …
How High School Teachers can Better Engage their Students, according to Teens
If students are going to get the most out of school, they need to be engaged. Research shows, for example, that disengaged students are more likely to suffer a range …