What TikTok can teach educators
Kids are learning on TikTok. Leaders also should be learning from it—not from the content but from how it engages students.
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Kappan Contributor: Jonathan E. Collins
Should school board elections be partisan?
School board politics could benefit from being a more vibrant space, but we should be careful with empowering political parties.
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The case for sensory civics education
We, as a society, need to see the true urgency of civics education. We take it for granted that students will gain this knowledge somehow, but when it comes to making it part of the curriculum, we treat it as an outdated luxury feature.
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70 years later, Brown v. Board is the great American underachievement
The Brown v. Board ruling may be America’s greatest underachievement.
Why have we underachieved? The racial injustices we see in our education system don’t persist because of a lack of effort.
Pandemic recovery will depend on political rediscovery
Polarizing views on controversial issues are at the center of the conversation about education and the election in 2024.
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Policy, not politics
Jonathan Collins outlines the four major education policy questions to ask heading into the 2024 presidential election.
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