Students should act as scientists, artists, and historians: not just study content or restrictive work that allows for success on multiple choice tests

Goal of 2017 education – evolve into active, informed and intelligent citizens

Records show that teacher programs throughout the State University of New York system have experienced a 40% decline in enrollment over the past five years.

True teaching takes years of relationship-building, not just following scripts. Discover why two years in the classroom may not make you a real teacher.

In David Greene’s latest article, he discusses the wealthy, fake education reform philanthropists, including the Broad and Walton Foundations.

Teachers must learn to use technology to inspire curiosity, not compete with it. Engagement—not reform—is what keeps students learning.

David Greene spoke as part of a panel in Philadelphia about media and messaging in education and his perspective on education reformers.

It’s funny how little the candidates for president speak about K-12 education on their political circuits.  Some of that is the fault of media pundits and debate moderators who want to discuss flashier topics like foreign policy and terrorism, or simply want to create flash points to watch them tear each other apart. No matter how important education is, it won’t make for good TV or Internet.

When schools and parents let students follow curiosity and design real-world experiences, they discover creativity that can’t be taught — only inspired.

David Greene discusses how lifelong teachers must be allowed to continue to use our God-given abilities to think, reason, and create.

an op-ed on the Common Core State Standards, The Real “Common Core” of Teaching, that garnered a lot of attention on LinkedIn. Here is the reaction of educator Ken Turner: 

Yes. I used the forbidden phrase. But let’s use those two words as if Common Core State Standards (CCSS) had never existed.  Recently we have seen weak attempts by both Congress and some states to pull back from their initial  “gung ho” approach to both standardized testing and CCSS because of a huge parental and teacher uproar. Unfortunately, even with these supposed pull-backs, teachers still feel like caged birds, unable to sing out. Hopefully this continued push back will make the policy makers pull even farther back and put education back in control of the professionals and communities they serve. In fact we might even go back to what the true common core of teaching should be.

After two open-heart surgeries, I saw firsthand how “one size fits all” medicine can harm recovery. Education’s obsession with standardization is no different.

In one high-performing school, a veteran teacher was reduced to a classroom technician—following scripts, monitoring screens, and forbidden to teach truly.

If education is to thrive again, universities must rebuild teacher training—and restore the mission to serve every child.