The Productive Gap

If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the

I recently wrote about how we make kids stupid by focusing more on content rather than the thinking skills students will actually need to learn to be successful.   At no time is this more evident in...

Teaching English simply for test preparation rather than to develop a love of literature is a mistake.

What would you say if I told you that all of our efforts to improve public education were insensitive to the actual way people interacted with the world?

Depressing, right? But it's true.

What if every classroom had access to the world’s best teachers?

As a result of inhabiting a different world than teachers, policymakers make a consequential error. They and a cadre of influentials confuse teacher quality with teaching quality, that is, the pers...

Terry Heick is interested in learning innovation in pursuit of increased social capacity.