Beyond Learning Loss
How Not to Lose it Over “Learning Loss”: Four Tips for Taking an Equity-Focused Approach to Student Achievement I just published a piece in Education Post challenging school and district leaders to shift their thinking around learning loss from a deficit-based...
And The Winner Of the 2020 Echoing Green/Barclay’s Social Innovation Challenge Is…
thinkLaw’s CEO, Colin Seale, earned the $20,000 prize in the Education category of the Echoing Green Social Innovation Challenge which will help further our mission of leading a critical thinking revolution.
The Inherently Political Problem of Policing Political Speech in the Classroom
School systems concerned with preventing or addressing political speech have at least two challenging questions to consider: (1) what is “speech” in the context of a classroom teacher’s First Amendment rights and (2) what makes speech “political” enough to justify a disciplinary response?
The Real Test We Need For Our Pandemics Of COVID-19 And Racial Injustice: Assessing Standardized Tests, Teacher Diversity, And Antiracist Education With José Luis Vilson [Via Forbes]
The COVID-19 pandemic forced every state to seek a waiver from annual standardized testing requirements. But before this, there is a long history of education advocates pushing for a complete rethinking of the outsized role of standardized exams as at least a...thinkLaw Newsletter: Black Lives Matter. Black Minds Matter, too.
Message from Colin Seale, thinkLaw’s Founder and CEO Black lives matter. I founded thinkLaw 5 years ago in the wake of unrest over police officers killing unarmed Black people and the protestor’s cry of “Stop. Killing. Us.” consistently playing in the...FREE Sample Lesson
