Many organizations use the word community as a buzzword, and particularly so in education. We believe this is in large part because educational institutions so often utilize practices and structures that are isolating at best and dehumanizing at worst, and buzzwords can often distract people…
read moreThis morning I read “Worried About Risky Behavior? Make School Tougher” in the New York Times. Here’s my very quick response. This terrible article highlights how worthless researchers can be when they ignore context. Basically, the researchers argue that students get marginal reductions…
read moreAntonio Buehler, founder of Abrome was invited to the Laura Bush Community Library to speak about the importance of grades. This video is shared courtesy of the library. </iframe>”> Grades are a source of anxiety and frustration for many students and their…
read moreThis summer, the United States Military Academy at West Point released an “open letter to high-achieving high school students.” No doubt West Point released it in the hopes that it would go viral and increase the number of candidates who end up…
read moreAntonio Buehler, founder of Abrome was invited to the Laura Bush Community Library to speak about how to tackle bullying in schools. This presentation leaned heavily on the bullying series we provided earlier this ‘academic’ year. Those posts are listed below. This…
read moreBullying is not the only problem with schooling, but it is one that literally brings violence into children’s lives, and in worst case scenarios it ends lives. In this essay series we laid out five actionable steps that schools need to take…
read moreWe previously pointed out that the first step to ending school bullying was to end age segregation.[1] The second step is to eliminate competition and grades. The most overt (and odious) function of schooling is a sorting function. Edward Thorndike, the father…
read more