K–12’s “Golden” Prospects—And Precedents
The Path to Dramatically Better Schools Already Exists| The Next 30 Years
The Path to Dramatically Better Schools Already Exists| The Next 30 Years
What Real Professions Get Right—and Education Doesn’t| thenext30years.substack.com
Teaching must recover the humility and neutrality appropriate to public service--or risk losing the public's trust.| thenext30years.substack.com
A new report on Arkansas’ ESA program shows families aren’t dabbling with school choice. They’re defecting, and not looking back.| The Next 30 Years
Most Americans lack the reading skills to judge competing claims; they are forever at the mercy of others| The Next 30 Years
What teachers need to know about “primal world beliefs"—and what it might mean for the way we work with children| The Next 30 Years
Courts broadly protect educators' private speech, but not without limits| The Next 30 Years
Even with new curricula and good intentions, old teaching habits die hard. A veteran literacy coach describes how schools can break the cycle and improve reading outcomes.| The Next 30 Years
Picture books lay the groundwork for reading success and cultural literacy| The Next 30 Years
Researchers Jim Hewitt and Nidhi Sachdeva on the belief-based status quo of education, the science of learning, and the culture shift necessary to prioritize evidence-based practices.| The Next 30 Years
The most effective intervention in education is not another literacy coach or SEL program. It’s dad.| The Next 30 Years
The Supreme Court's ruling likely won’t end classroom content controversies—because defining “curriculum” isn’t as clear-cut as SCOTUS seems to assume.| The Next 30 Years
Teachers and public schools wield prodigious influence over a captive audience of other people’s children. Who gives them permission to choose politically charged curriculum?| The Next 30 Years
Carl Hendrick: "Effective Instruction isn't a matter of chance, but of design"| The Next 30 Years
The fight against bad ideas in education is too important to be waged carelessly| The Next 30 Years
We think we’re helping children by teaching them about the world’s dangers. What if we’re just making them more anxious and less resilient?| The Next 30 Years
Success stories and hero teacher tales are inspiring. But we have a lot to learn from those who found the job untenable.| The Next 30 Years
The rapid rise of education savings accounts is transformative for parents and students, but also for teachers. There are boundless opportunities and significant risks.| The Next 30 Years
It helps to be liked, but the opposite is more true: Students like teachers they learn from.| The Next 30 Years
A key question is going unasked: Are we any better at teaching CTE than reading and math?| The Next 30 Years
Compelling evidence suggests students hit a "decoding threshold" below which reading comprehension grinds to a halt. Fixing it won't be easy.| thenext30years.substack.com
A platform seeking to bridge the gaps between education practice, policy, and research. Click to read The Next 30 Years, by Robert Pondiscio, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| thenext30years.substack.com
Cognitive science has demonstrated repeatedly that knowledge is essential for making sense of texts. Suggesting otherwise is misleading—and potentially harmful to students who need it the most.| thenext30years.substack.com
