Addressing health issues in North Carolina's K-12 schools is a major opportunity to raise our state's embarrassing national ranking for student learning while at the...

Even if the N.C. Supreme Court agrees with teachers and parents regarding the Leandro lawsuit, it will not fix the largest problem lowering student learning...

This week we offer one small, but significant, locally implementable solution that can help contribute to solving several issues challenging North Carolina schools. North Carolina adolescents...

Issue #9 A second lesson on how lack of fresh air in classrooms lowers learning dramatically. We have been surveying hundreds of North Carolina classrooms...

Did you know that stuffy air (low oxygen levels) in classrooms can lower a student's learning and test scores as much as two letter grades?...

Reminding you that our mission is to improve North Carolina’s K-12 schools by introducing you to little known information about how factors inside a school, but...

The goal of this newsletter is to help you see ways to improve student learning by interventions outside the classroom.   As I mentioned in...

Maybe more than you need to hear about how hearing loss is hurting your students. (Pun?) (Not duplicate content from last email). I am sure...

North Carolina has around a quarter of a million students with unrecognized and untreated hearing loss that hinders learning [i], [ii]. Apart from rare instances...

It is surprising to learn that almost all successful programs and administrative interventions that increase students cognitive function and learning occur outside the classroom.  One...