Compulsory Education
State Senator Aaron Osmond raised some eyebrows recently when he called for an end to compulsory education in Utah. Supporters admit it's a radical idea, but say it's necessary to put control of a...
View ArticleImproving Utah Schools: Student Motivation
For all the debate around improving education, researcher Maria Ferguson says there's a critical piece that's often overlooked: how do you motivate students? It's a big problem: according to some...
View ArticleImproving Utah Schools: School Accountability
How do you measure a school's success? In Utah, we have two systems and a passionate debate about how each serves schools and students. One is School Grading, which gives easily understood A – F...
View ArticleThe Smartest Kids in the World
A new survey ranked American schools 26th in math skills among 34 developed countries. That's below average, and we just managed average in science and reading. Over the last fifty years, US scores...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Teacher
Think about that one teacher who had the biggest impact on your education. What skills or qualities did that person have that other teachers didn’t? What would it mean for America’s future if we could...
View ArticleThe Teacher Wars
There are many ideas about improving education, but journalist Dana Goldstein says most of them have been tried, and many of them have already failed. Goldstein has written a new book that chronicles...
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