The Essay Is Not The End Game

Writing is thinking. The essay is just the result... and AI should give teachers the time to coach the mind, not simply grade the paper.

The Great Unlock Hit #1 in Education

Words of Encouragement

The Great Unlock Is Here!

How AI is helping make the future of learning more human

The Flywheel Spins. The Law Doesn't.

Kurzweil says information technologies bend upward on an exponential curve. Here's where that curve stops at the schoolhouse door.

The Great Unlock Will Be Published in 48 Hours

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Teaching Was Never Delivery

Why Teachers Are More Than Delivers of Content

The Equity Veto

How "all or none" became the most expensive sentence in K–12 procurement.

The £6.5 Billion Question

Is the Spend Moving Student Outcomes?

Teachers asked for smaller classes. The data asked for smaller gaps.

5,800 teachers were handed a survey and named the levers they wish they had. Every top answer adjusts the adults around the student. Not one touches the student.

The Tower Was Always Falling

Everyone is studying the moment the tower fell. The blocks went missing years earlier, in plain sight.

There Is No Average Student

Todd Rose proved it in 1952. We're still ignoring it in 2026.

The Education Company Costume

A billion-dollar founder said the quiet part out loud. The question is whether your vendors are wearing the same costume.

The Goldilocks Zone

Why building grit and teaching content are two different outcomes. And why confusing them is costing students both.

The Death of Curriculum

Your Scope and Sequence is a Liability

The Constraint You Should Stop Fighting

More Resources Won't Fix a Broken Model. Better Design Will.

The Perfectly Imperfect Machine

How our education system is doing exactly what it is designed to do.

The Scoreboard Lied

Why Race Day Is The Wrong Measure of a Runner. And a Student.

The Machine That Makes Us Human

Andrew Huberman and Dr. Dacher Keltner just made the best case for AI in education - without ever mentioning schools.

When The Research Doesn't Hold

Half of social-science studies can't be replicated. Here's what that means for every decision you make.

What We Have Is A Lack of Imagination

What Jensen Huang, the most powerful CEO in the world, can teach us about AI

The Cost of Too Much Help

We Call It Support. The Research Calls It Something Else.

The End of Shared Curriculum

How AI Will Destabilize K-12 Education - and What Superintendents Must Do Before It Does

AI in Schools isn't a Feature Story Anymore

Fight AI with AI.

Seat Time Is Destroying Learning

Seat time is the constant and learning is the variable. It should be the opposite.