This is part of a series of posts. Next one is How to Change Schools Without Changing Schools. The previous is “Screens are hurting learning.” But what is worth learning? People love to say “schools resist change.” It sounds like a personality flaw—lazy, stubborn, old-fashioned. But schools aren’t hard to change because…

This is part of a series of posts. Next one is Peace Treaty: Why Schools Don’t Change (Even When Everyone Knows They Should). The previous is Recent Reports about AI in Schools: What’s Happening and What Should Be Happening? In a recent written testimony to the U.S. Senate, neuroscientist and educator Jared…

This is part of a series of posts. Next one is “Screens are hurting learning.” But what is worth learning? AI in schools is starting to look less like an “education revolution” and more like a stress test of the old system. When you read the recent reports together, a pretty…

“The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says” is the title of a recent NPR story. The title is dramatic, reassuring, and deeply misleading. It is also a familiar title in the history of technology and education. Whenever, a significant new technology emerged, people wanted to know…

Introduction Order the book from ASCD or Amazon. For years, the pervasive story of American education was one of decline. In 1995, educational psychologists David Berliner and Bruce Biddle published a book entitled, The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools (Berliner & Biddle, 1995). This…