You know what doesn't work? Differentiation Recent studies show no noticeable gains, especially compared to simple classwide explicit instruction It spreads teachers thin, drives burnout It's a buzzword backed by popcorn science So scrap it. And simplify #differentiation

We’re getting better at identifying what makes a strong, knowledge-rich curriculum. But "adopted" curriculum still isn’t what students actually get. Until that changes, debates about which curriculum is best are premature. thenext30years.substack.com/p/the-limits-o…

What you *can* teach is logic, how to construct a valid argument, and how to unravel one that is not. You can teach epistemology, and the knowledge of how we know what we know. But the crucial last leg of the journey to think critically about anything is domain knowledge. If you

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Wisconsin REMAINS the center of the women's college hockey universe. The crowns stay united as the UW-River Falls Falcons capture a third-straight national title, joining the #Badgers as 2026 NCAA Tournament champions.

A big sign of maturity is being able to learn from people you don't even like.

The dialing back of "every kid gets a Chromebook" has started. Here's hoping it keeps going, and that there's more learning and less distraction. nytimes.com/2026/03/29/tec…

Schools don't have a funding problem, they have an administrator surplus problem

“For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Something I’ve noticed about the way my kid is being taught reading and writing. The curriculum is full of sophisticated concepts (thesis statements, transitions, citation) and completely ignores things 8 yr olds should be mastering like parts of speech, types of sentences, etc

Students do not need fashionable reading lists. They need Great Books—the works that shaped the civilization they are about to inherit. In this essay for Restoring the West, Jenna A. Robinson explains why what endures matters more than what trends.

Rahm Emanuel on how and why the Democrats have "lost the plot." Our members-only episode with Rahm Emanuel is available now on Substack.

Konstantin Kisin: “One of the terrible things about wokeness is it got people addicted to victimhood.”

WATCH: Rahm Emanuel calls out America’s complacency on literacy. Hard to argue with.

Schools spend hours trying to “reach” the kid who openly doesn’t care, while the kid who tries every day quietly gets ignored. We’re exhausting ourselves chasing resistance instead of investing in effort.

“Girls had access to trauma-informed therapists ready to dissect their childhoods and diagnose their parents”. “Trauma-informed” anything is the most under-recognized scam.

A consequence of putting “mental health” above all: we’ve taught kids to look at any distress as the sign of a potentially bigger (and clinical) problem. That turns real but little problems into real big problems. All distress is REAL—but not all distress is abnormal/clinical.

If you want your teaching to be aligned with solid research, you have to go outside th education field and into the cognitive sciences or fields adjacent to education.

"Celebration of higher graduation rates doesn’t just ignore test scores. It masks growing problems for vulnerable students," the Editorial Board writes. wapo.st/3NIihnv

.Aaron MacLean: Americans often make the mistake of believing our adversaries think like we do—and want the same things. “When I served in Afghanistan…I was having tea with a Taliban commander…He had his 10-year-old kid standing next to him… I remember saying to him, ‘Don't