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Opinion: The Rush to Expedited Degrees Ignores What College Actually Does
There's a seductive logic to the push for faster college degrees. Get students through the pipeline quicker. Reduce costs. Lower debt. Meet employer d...
Opinion: Everyone's Debating Cell Phone Bans. The Real Issue Is What Schools Are Replacing Them With.
School administrators across the country are locked in a familiar battle. Should phones be banned? Should they be restricted? Should students have sup...
Opinion: We're Obsessing Over LMS Metrics While Missing Why Students Actually Disengage
The consensus in education technology right now is reassuring: measure what matters, optimize your learning management system, track engagement throug...
Opinion: We're Obsessed With Student Engagement. That Might Be Breaking Our Ability to Teach Anything Hard.
The consensus is comfortable: Student engagement is the holy grail of modern curriculum design. Make it fun. Make it interactive. Make it relevant to ...
Opinion: The "Engagement-First" Curriculum Craze Is Overselling a Partial Solution
This trend is being sold as inevitable. It deserves more skepticism than it is getting. We are told constantly that student engagement is the gateway ...
Opinion: When 14-Year-Olds Win National Competitions, We're Missing the Real Story
Most coverage treats spelling bee victories and similar youth achievement milestones as heartwarming one-off events, complete with triumphant photos a...
Opinion: We're Celebrating Research Accessibility. We Should Be Asking Who Gets Left Behind.
The consensus feels settled: Open access to research is good. Paywalls are bad. Publishers should democratize knowledge. Universities should fund prep...
Opinion: The Case for Slow Teacher Development—Why We're Rushing Toward Burnout
The unpopular take is that restraint, not speed, may be the smarter strategy here. We live in an era of educational urgency. AI is reshaping how we te...
Opinion: We're Paying Publishers to Make Math Easier, Not Better
Here's what's happening in curriculum adoption across America, and nobody seems bothered by it: schools are increasingly rewarding textbook publishers...
Opinion: Schools' Data Breach Panic Signals a Bigger Crisis in EdTech Infrastructure
Most coverage treats each new security incident in education technology as an isolated failure. A vendor gets breached. Schools react. The story moves...
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