YouTube is the largest open educational resource on the internet. The skill of using it seriously is the skill of resisting the platform's defaults.

Senior year compresses the college admissions process into one academic year. A working month-by-month plan, from late summer through May 1 decision day.

Most differentiation advice fails the prep-time test. The teachers who do it sustainably differentiate at narrow points and accept the middle of the lesson is the same for everyone.

Homeschooling a kid with ADHD requires a different daily structure than typical homeschool. The shorter blocks, movement breaks, and outsourced co-op time that actually work.

The 1:1 elementary device push was an overcorrection. The case for fewer screens in younger classrooms is stronger than the device-vendor materials suggest.

Cohort-based courses charge much more than self-paced alternatives. The format works for some learners and subjects and not others. A practical evaluation framework.

Major selection matters in a few specific fields and matters much less than the cultural anxiety suggests in most. A guide to figuring out which case you are in.

Chronic absenteeism doubled during the pandemic and has not fully recovered. What the current numbers show, why they persist, and which interventions are working.

The math of homeschooling on one income is more workable than people assume and harder than the social-media version suggests. The honest line items, in order.

The K-12 device wars settled into a partial truce. Chromebooks dominate by unit count; iPads still win in specific contexts. A guide to mixed deployments.