(Preface: We wrote a post on July 25th, We Are for Public Schools, and another on July 30th titled, We Love (Public School) Teachers. As...

There is little in life more challenging than raising children. Are we too firm? Not firm enough? Too accommodating? How should we...

All of us have barriers to learning. Some of those are deep and personal. Prior experiences, wounds or trauma can cause deep-seated...

In the 18th century when public education became a "thing", it was designed to meet the needs of a world rapidly industrializing. In its...

For eleven years, Houdini performed his most famous magic trick. It was called the "Upside Down" or "USD". Houdini had his ankles locked...

Look at what the pandemic did to student scores across the nation: “These results are sobering,” said Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the...

Einstein once said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing...

Most everyone has heard of the Dick and Jane readers. They were written by Zerna Sharp and published in the forties. For the next 30...

For decades educators have known classroom lectures must go away. Why? Lecture Based Learning Responding to a question about the...

“One of the characteristics of democratic times is that all men have a taste for easy successes and immediate pleasures … men do not want...

Personalized Learning is the new meme for education. Educators see it as the future in learning and are making efforts to employ its...

Education in America is beyond the point of a correction here and there. It is no longer accomplishing its mandate and is in fact, often...

In 1968, George Land (with Beth Jarman) conducted a research study to test the creativity of 1,600 children ranging in ages from...

There is a lot of confusion about what makes an educational process 'personalized'. In an earlier post I wrote briefly about the...

We love and appreciate teachers. With rare exception they work hard, do a great job, and receive little thanks for it. In certain places...

Every day, every person is on a learning path. We all begin that path even before birth. In the womb we learn what our mom sounds like....

We have written several posts on the failures of the public school system. But, we have not written those because, in any sense, we are...

What is competence? Is it mastery? Paradigm Learning is all in for mastery of material. Well, mostly. But we are seeking so much more. We...

We said in a prior post that Personalized Learning is not easy. But it is what is needed to prepare our children for tomorrow. Any...

The claim to Personalized Learning is one of the recent buzzwords in education just as the claim to offering 'robotics' was in the late...