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Education’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation
This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...
Read Full ArticleLaundromats, Lawyers, Learning Loss, and Life: An Autobiographical Day in Education
This Blog described an autobiographical day in the educational life of a school psychologist who works nationwide as a consultant. He reflects on the harsh and sometimes fixed realities he observed in...
Read Full ArticleHelping Schools Pick and Implement the Best Evidence-Based Programs: Avoiding Mistakes, Best Practices, and Pilot Projects (Part II)
Continuing this two-part Series, this Blog Part II discusses the evaluative criteria used by the What Works Clearinghouse and Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center to rate the validity of curricula...
Read Full ArticleWhat Super Bowl Commercials Teach Education About Media and Product Literacy: The Language and Process that Helps Schools Vet New Products and Interventions (Part I)
Metaphorically using the commercials at the Super Bowl as a guide, this Blog emphasized and outlined (applying the goals and questions within a sound middle school Media Literacy program) why educator...
Read Full ArticleTwelve Critical Components for (Continuous) School, Staff, and Student Improvement: Motivation Cannot Compensate for a System with Systemic Deficits
New Blog describes the school improvement experiences of three school districts at different points in the improvement process. It then describes the twelve evidence-based components of effective scho...
Read Full ArticleWhen High School Students Have Significant Academic Gaps: More Concerns and Common Sense Solutions (Letters to the Editor)
New Blog revisits the instructional dilemma of having to choose between (a) providing critical intervention opportunities to high school students with significant prerequisite skills gaps in literacy,...
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