Viewpoints

  The argument is so very simple and logical at first blush: Based on any meaningful measurement, the proficiency of American children, when it comes to the most basic reading and math skills, is abysmal; worse yet, minority and low...Read More

  Considerable research has been conducted in recent years showing that, through practice or other repetitive processes, connections between relevant parts of the brain can be physically reinforced strengthening these pathways.  A new study...Read More

  Yesterday, as President Obama invoked the Apollo program and claimed “this is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” the US Department of Education released the sobering results of the 2009 NAEP science assessment, the gold standard fo...Read More

Today, 30% of university students now take at least one course online.  Like it or not, it seems inevitable that more and more K12 learning will occur online as well - if for no other reason than diminishing school and district budgets. There has ...Read More

        In what is being billed as the “first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay,” researchers at Vanderbilt University studying a merit-based bonus system in Nashville, TE over a three-year period determined that st...Read More