In a recent report by Populace (2022), 55 percent of American parents expressed their desire for educators to rethink how today’s K-12 schools are educating our children. The study found that, despite ...

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 ...

This weekend we’re having a 25 th reunion and reflection on the youth civic empowerment initiative Public Achievement, in Dayton, Ohio. It reminds me how much I’ve always thought “culture” first, not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how millennials find purpose as CEO of Practice Makes Perfect. Earlier this month, Kappan released its 48th Annual PDK ...

It began with The Putney School in the 1930s, one of the earliest American schools built around progressive ideals: ...

In our modern American society, education is used for a multitude of purposes — from preparing students to find careers to pushing political agendas in certain areas. Although the practical benefits ...

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 ...

In this Q&A moderated by Puget Sound Business Journal’s Donald Baker, Bellevue Christian’s Michael Olson and The Northwest ...

What’s the purpose of an education? To get a job? To expand the mind? This is a question that’s dogged philosophers, politicians and educators for years. This week, we got another glimpse into the ...

My wife and I took the customary social studies classes in high school: world culture in ninth grade followed by world history in 10th, U.S. History in 11th and U.S. Government in 12th. When our ...

In today’s Parenting With a Purpose — parenting, education and behavior expert Reena B. Patel shares with The Four the importance of teaching children to be team players and instill sportsmanship.