Month: March 2022
Study reveals benefits of remote blood pressure monitoring
Before the COVID-19 pandemic increased the need for telehealth care, HealthPartners had been delivering care virtually for more than a decade through Virtuwell. And researchers…
The Higher Education Model is Broken. Together We Can Fix It.
We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. Growing student debt, declining college enrollment, faculty layoffs and department closures, to name a few. The world’s complexity…
Our Nation’s Teachers Are Hustling to Survive
Within the profession, it’s a fact of life, according to Eleanor Blair, author of the 2018 book, “By the Light of the Silvery Moon: Teacher…
An Unusual Way to Charge for College: Make It Voluntary
The cost of college keeps climbing, and schools these days are considering all kinds of innovative options to keep costs low. But one liberal-arts college…
Making Higher Ed More Accountable for Student Job Outcomes
Many colleges claim to help students find good jobs—but Texas State Technical College takes that to a new level. The multi-campus community college has a…
Can Personalized Learning Be Scaled to Ease Teacher Burdens and Close Achievement Gaps?
Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning. Not…
Students’ Career Interests Are Changing. Here Is Why Our Teaching Must Change, Too
Regularly I run into our students making Tik Tok videos in school stairwells. I often jump in, but that’s a different article for another day….
The School Hall Pass Is Going Digital. Is That a Good Thing?
The ritual of handing students a written hall pass probably hasn’t changed much since schools were first created—unless you count the invention of laminating machines…
Kids’ Media Use Is Up. Blame the Pandemic — And TikTok.
It’s official: Kids are spending more time on screens now than they were before the pandemic. That development is perhaps not surprising given the fact…
Teachers Can Positively Impact Education Policy, We Just Have to Use Our Teacher Voice
It was the Fall of 2020, and I delivered my testimony on Zoom to the Texas State Board of Education. As I finished my comments,…