What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question ...
Dr. Heather Malin, Director of Research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence, poses this provocative question in her 2018 book, Teaching With Purpose. Marlins defines purpose as “a future-directed ...
For the past decade, schools have placed significant emphasis on getting students ready for careers. The problem is that it’s not clear what kind of jobs will be available in ten or 20 years. So what ...
Editor’s note: Last week, the Jack Miller Center convened a National Summit on Civic Education at Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington. Robert Pondiscio delivered the keynote address.
Artificial intelligence and advancing technologies are on the rise. No new news there. However, the type of technology we are seeing and the capabilities it has are ever new. Large language models ...
There’s a lot of discussion and debate around schools and education. Among them are the pandemic’s impacts on students and teachers; educators leaving the profession in droves; depression and anxiety ...
The pace of change in education today is dizzying. Artificial intelligence, once the domain of science fiction, is now part of everyday student life. In a single year, tools like ChatGPT have reshaped ...
I first wrote in a guest editorial outlining the primary purpose of education that appeared in the OC Register Opinion section in 1998. At a time when phonemic awareness and basic reading, writing and ...
Why do Americans need an education in leisure? Rachel Alexander Cambre discusses the foundation of education and how it leads to a true understanding of freedom and flourishing. Rachel Alexander ...
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The real purpose of education

Philippine education is again in the midst of another controversy regarding its curriculum. This time, the seeming dispute is on the proposal of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) which seeks ...