Why did schools stop teaching kids how to read? Live With Robert Pondiscio, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller. An “unbearable bleakness” has overtaken childhood education a… Read More

All Eyes On Florida’s New Education Commissioner Authored by Robert Pondiscio via RealClear Policy (emphasis ours), Last Friday, Florida’s State Board of Education voted to appro… Read More

The Tower of Babel has fallen, writes social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic. We Americans no longer speak the same language or recognize the same truth.” People have lost… Read More

Nearly all Americans want public schools to teach about slavery and racism, reports a recent poll for APM Research Lab. But the public is divided on whether schools should teach about racism… Read More

The anti-work ethic is being promoted on one of Reddit’s fastest growing sites — r/antiwork — writes Anna Codrea-Rado on Vice. The subreddit describes itself as being &ldqu… Read More

“Performative” is a word I started hearing only a few years ago. Now, it’s everywhere. Thanks to social media, everyone seems to be performing — virtue, coolness, an… Read More

Distracted by culture wars, school districts may not be able to focus on the literacy crisis, writes Dale Chu on Fordham’s blog. Teachers are debating whether students should read To K… Read More

Parents protest in Montclair, New Jersey, where the teachers’ union blocked a plan to reopen schools. Photo: Montclair FAIL It’s backlash time, writes Fordham’s Robert Pond… Read More

Urban charter schools are offering educational opportunity to Black and Latino students, yet they’re under attack by their young, ultra-woke staff, writes Robert Pondiscio on The 74. P… Read More

If you think the last few months have been terrible for students, just wait till the fall, writes Fordham’s Robert Pondiscio, subbing for Rick Hess. While most are worrying about logis… Read More

When a school is improving, stay out of the way, writes Robert Pondiscio in a review of Eric Kalenze’s new book, What the Academy Taught Us. In 2004, Robert Perdaems, the principal of… Read More

During a moment of small group discussion in a professional development session, a teacher near me gave his opinion: Look, I’ve learned a few things in my time here, and that’s… Read More