By Jeffrey Luger in TIME Magazine, Aug. 3, 2015 The kids are paying the price for parents’ delusions.  We cheat ourselves, and, worse, we cheat our kids, if we view life as a single straight-line race in which one one-hundreth of the competitors finish in the money and everyone else loses. We wil...

I just read this very interesting article in ASCD’s Community Education Update by Kathy Checkley where she discusses the blog post by Alexis Wiggins. Alexis is a teachers who spent 2 days as a “student’ attending classes. She was appalled by the nearly continuous amount of sitting ...

America’s focus on standardized test results for high-stakes decision-making “…has lead to several consequences, including overtesting, a narrowing of the curriculum, and a de-emphasis on untested subjects and concepts – such as the arts, civics, and social and emotional skills  — tha...