The Next 30 Years

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Why Are Schools So Ugly?
We used to build grand cathedrals of learning. Today’s schools look like warehouses or worse.
 • Robert Pondiscio
Start Assigning Great Books in English Class
A recent EdWeek op-ed offers a revealing look into how middle and high school literature classes have been drained of their substance.
 • Annika Hernandez
Zach Groshell: The Workload Solutions the Profession Doesn’t Want
Sometimes the most dependable solutions to reducing workload turn out to be the ones teachers resist.
 • Robert Pondiscio
Languishing Teens and the “3:00 PM to 3:00 AM Problem”
A charter school pioneer turns his attention to adolescents drifting to the sidelines of life
 • Robert Pondiscio
The Woman on the Plane and the Power of Words
Children benefit from the early cultivation of a large, sophisticated vocabulary through both speech and reading.
 • Robert Pondiscio
The Next 30 Years: Top Posts from Our First Year
Our most read and shared posts from this year suggest readers are hungry for clarity, coherence, and seriousness about teaching and learning.
 • Robert Pondiscio
How Trauma-Informed Teaching Rewired American Education
The rise of “trauma-informed practice” reveals a profound, largely unacknowledged shift in how schools understand children—and why expectations have…
 • Robert Pondiscio
The Next 30 Years
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