In a recent report by Populace (2022), 55 percent of American parents expressed their desire for educators to rethink how today’s K-12 schools are educating our children. The study found that, despite ...

In our modern American society, education is used for a multitude of purposes — from preparing students to find careers to pushing political agendas in certain areas. Although the practical benefits ...

Dr. Heather Malin, Director of Research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence, poses this provocative question in her 2018 book, Teaching With Purpose. Marlins defines purpose as “a future-directed ...

I first wrote in a guest editorial outlining the primary purpose of education that appeared in the OC Register Opinion section in 1998. At a time when phonemic awareness and basic reading, writing and ...

The pace of change in education today is dizzying. Artificial intelligence, once the domain of science fiction, is now part of everyday student life. In a single year, tools like ChatGPT have reshaped ...

As the world stumbles from one crisis to another it is increasingly apparent that existing systems and institutions are incapable of responding to the challenges of the time and the growing demands of ...

In the spring of this year, education in our country was set into chaos. Teachers and administrators scrambled to find ways of delivering instruction in a remote setting. The fall rolled around, and ...

Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Public Media is built on a group of committed ...