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Opinion: The Real Lesson From Nobel Prize Pseudoscience Isn't About Vitamins—It's About How We Teach Critical Thinking
Most coverage of how a Nobel laureate convinced millions that vitamin C could cure the common cold treats it as a historical curiosity. A brilliant sc...
Opinion: The Research Translation Crisis Nobody Wants to Admit
Here's what keeps me up at night: somewhere in a university basement, researchers are publishing findings that could transform how we teach reading. S...
Opinion: We're Paying Schools to Dumb Down Math, and Textbook Publishers Know It
Here's what nobody wants to admit: the curriculum incentive structure is broken, and it's working exactly as designed for everyone except students who...
Opinion: The Mistake-Based Curriculum Movement Signals a Deeper Reckoning With How We Define Learning
Most coverage treats the growing emphasis on mistakes as pedagogical tools as a modest classroom innovation, a feel-good trend toward kinder math inst...
Opinion: The 'Skills-Based Hiring' Movement Promises Meritocracy. Don't Believe It.
There is a seductive narrative gaining momentum in education policy circles: we should abandon traditional credentials and hire based on demonstrated ...
Opinion: We're Paying Schools to Hide Reading Problems, Not Fix Them
Here's the uncomfortable truth about American K-12 education: our incentive structures reward schools for managing dysfunction rather than eliminating...
Opinion: The 'Deregulation Efficiency' Pitch Is Hiding Real Costs to Students
There's a seductive argument making the rounds in education policy circles these days. It goes something like this: regulations are bloated, bureaucra...
Opinion: The Real AI-in-Schools Problem Isn't Adoption Speed—It's Our Addiction to It
We're in the middle of an education technology sprint, and everyone's running in the same direction without looking back. School leaders are racing to...
Opinion: The Student Mental Health Industry Is Drowning in Solutions Nobody Asked For
Here's what we know: students are stressed. Schools are adding mental health programs. And yet the needle barely moves. This paradox sits at the heart...
Opinion: We're Paying Teachers to Burn Out, Not to Teach Well
Here's what nobody wants to say out loud: the education system's incentive structure is actively hostile to good teaching. Not through malice. Through...
Opinion: The Corporate LMS Exodus Reveals EdTech's Real Problem—and It's Not the Software
Most coverage treats the shift from traditional learning management systems to skills intelligence platforms as a straightforward technology upgrade. ...
Opinion: The Campus Tech Stack Is Choking Higher Ed. Here's Why Simplification Beats Innovation Theater
Universities are drowning in software. Not metaphorically. Literally choking on layers of learning management systems, student information platforms, ...
Opinion: Why Student 'Wellness' Programs Are Missing the Point About What Students Actually Need
Most coverage treats rising student stress as a mental health crisis requiring better counseling services and meditation apps. It is better understood...
Opinion: The AI Tutoring Gold Rush Is Moving Too Fast—And That's Exactly the Problem
Every few weeks, another education technology company announces it's deploying AI tutors at scale. Personalized learning! Adaptive algorithms! 24/7 av...
Opinion: The Chronic Absenteeism 'Crisis' Is Actually About Which Kids We've Decided to Abandon
Most coverage of chronic absenteeism treats it as a puzzle to solve: How do we get more kids to show up? What incentives work? Which districts have cr...
Opinion: Everyone agrees CTE is the future. That's exactly the problem.
Career and technical education has become the safe consensus pick. Policymakers embrace it, employers champion it, and educators nod along approvingly...
Opinion: Schools Are Obsessing Over AI Literacy When They Should Be Reckoning With Attention Itself
Here's what everyone in education policy keeps saying: we need to teach students how to use AI responsibly, critically evaluate AI outputs, and prepar...
Opinion: The Global Race for Critical Minerals Needs to Pump the Brakes
Every week brings another headline about the mineral rush. Lithium in the Sahel. Cobalt in the Congo. Rare earths in Southeast Asia. The narrative is ...
Opinion: Stop Selling Schools the 'Next Big Thing' When They Need Better Basics
Every education conference I've covered in the past five years follows the same script. A startup founder takes the stage with breathless energy. They...
Opinion: The Microlearning Trap We're Walking Into With Eyes Wide Open
This trend is being sold as inevitable. It deserves more skepticism than it is getting. Microlearning has become education's golden child. The pitch i...
Opinion: The Teacher Shortage Isn't a Crisis—It's a Sorting Mechanism
Most coverage treats the ongoing teacher shortage as a temporary crisis we need to solve. It is better understood as a structural sorting mechanism th...
Opinion: Universities Are Quietly Abandoning the Research Question
We talk about the research crisis in education like it's a staffing problem or a funding problem. Hire more lab assistants. Grant us more money. These...
Opinion: The Content Creator Major Isn't About TikTok—It's About Higher Ed's Identity Crisis
Everyone's laughing at the colleges launching influencer degrees. The takes write themselves: "Kids paying six figures to learn what they already do o...
Opinion: The Global Rush to 'Teach Critical Thinking' Is Missing the Point
This trend is being sold as inevitable. It deserves more skepticism than it is getting. From Australia's education ministers calling for more "scienti...
Opinion: Schools Are Ditching Grades. What They're Really Doing Is Admitting Defeat on Measurement.
The conversation about how we measure student learning has shifted so dramatically that most people haven't noticed the ground moving beneath their fe...
Opinion: The Real Reason Schools Are Ditching Homework Isn't About Student Stress
Everyone's talking about why schools are rethinking homework. The usual suspects get blamed: too much pressure on kids, mental health concerns, equity...
Opinion: The Case for Slowing Down Grade Reform in Higher Ed
The unpopular take is that restraint, not speed, may be the smarter strategy here. Universities across the country are racing to overhaul their gradin...
Opinion: The Pass/Fail Experiment Won't Save Higher Ed—It Reveals What We've Stopped Asking
Universities love a clean solution. Remove grades, reduce anxiety, level the playing field. The logic is tidy. The problem is messier than the fix. Ne...
Opinion: The Library EdTech Pivot Is Actually About Power
Most coverage treats the recent shift in how public libraries approach educational technology as a straightforward resource allocation question. Did l...
Opinion: The Reproducibility Crisis Isn't About Bad Scientists—It's About Who Gets to Ask Questions
The consensus in education research circles has settled into a comfortable position: we need better replication studies, stronger statistical standard...
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