The network path to mastery learning
School and district leaders can save education by working together to offer students accomplishment and relevance.
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Tag: October 2024
Learning by doing
In work-based learning programs, students can apply skills and knowledge from the classroom to their lives.
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MEMBER STORY: Sharing the benefit of experience
Since joining PDK International in 2022, DeShanna Reed has been a very active member of the...
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Literacy-based instruction in STEM
STEM teachers need professional development and support to implement reading and writing instruction in their classrooms.
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Public priorities for education
Results from the 2024 PDK poll show the public’s attitudes toward federal spending on education.
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Taking HOMies from the classroom to the whole school
When an art teacher has a creative idea for motivating his students, school leaders take note, the initiative spreads, and the school culture changes.
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Students’ experiences with setting their own learning goals
We asked our Educators Rising students how much they’d been encouraged to set their own learning goals and track their own progress and what effect that had on their academic success.
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Deliberating across difference
The Center for Education Policy’s Civic Summit model fosters understanding and seeking common ground on complex and contentious education issues.
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The rise and stall of standards-based reform
The COVID-19 pandemic and the growth of AI have changed the education landscape. What does this mean for standards and assessments?
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Early childhood educators deserve more
During Hurricane Katrina, teacher Sandra F. Robinson was displaced and took a job as at a preschool teacher.
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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.
Grade retention and the law
As with the disproportionate suspension or expulsion of students of color or students with disabilities, it’s fair to ask: Is grade retention a civil rights issue?
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