What Is Whataboutism? Whataboutism is a rhetorical move in which a person avoids responding to a criticism, claim, or question by pointing to a different problem, usually with a response such as, ‘What about this other thing?’ Whataboutism matters because...
“Students don’t want to be perceived by their peers as not able to do the work,” said Alex Kale, a computer scientist at the University of Chicago and a co-author of the study, which was presented at a conference in...
Her daughter must be dead. This is what Archie Gottesman concluded when checking the location of her middle daughter, who had claimed to be out with friends on a warm summer night in New York City. The phone tracker, and...
“But unless you’re already worried about the academic performance of your kid and looking to make sure that you use the summer really well for building those additional supports and additional learning, summer slide isn’t this big boogeyman that we...
Episode Transcript This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. Ki Sung: Welcome to the Mind Shift Podcast where we explore the future of learning and how we raise our kids. I’m Ki...
“It is just so encouraging,” he said. “Even though they’re performing below average, are trending upward.” One possible reason for the overall improvement, the report points out, is the students’ age. They were 4 when the pandemic started in 2020...
by Terry Heick If the ultimate goal of education is for students to be able to answer questions effectively, then focusing on content and response strategies makes sense. If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think,...
“I started getting really good grades,” she says. “It made me feel like … I’m not stupid, I have so much to say and it just made me like ‘I can do this, I can do school and I can...
Researchers analyzed roughly 2,700 Michigan schools between 2022 and 2025 and divided them into quarters based on how much they improved their students’ attendance rates. Students in the top quarter of schools showed up for class about seven more days...
In 2025, only 26 percent of Washington students met grade-level standards in math and only 38 percent were proficient in reading, according to a separate report from the D.C. Policy Center, an independent local think tank. Just 16 percent of...
