Tag: Students

Peter Greene: Why the Panic Over College Readiness, Again?

Education & Learning
Kids today! Low expectations! Low standards! Bad teachers! Lazy kids! Cell phones! Social media! We are in the...

Ordinary Life

Education & Learning
The man I love turned 50 yesterday. A milestone event, cataclysmic in its ordinarity really. Just live long enough...

Good Enough

Education & Learning
It’s been so long since I wrote, that I forgot my own website address. It’s not that there haven’t been...

This Year I Am Boring My Students (On Purpose)

Education & Learning
I have been thinking a lot about boredom. And how so many of us, yes, myself included, seem to...

10 Ways to Begin Counteracting the Rewiring of Our Students’ Brains

Education & Learning
He tells me he is bored. As if that is the only reason I need in order to understand why...

How to Combat Summer Reading Slide with Students

Education & Learning
I have 43 school days left and I can already feel it. That quiet guilt that starts sneaking in...

Reading Was Never Meant to Compete

Education & Learning
We talk about reading as if it is in a race. As if every time a kid picks up...

Two Different Loses

Education & Learning
What we track. And what we miss. I keep thinking about the ones who came to us loving books. You know...