eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

Standardized testing became ubiquitous and often crowded out the arts, physical education, and even recess in under-resourced schools. Schools in low-income communities were labeled as failures rather than supported. The reforms were ineffective, as well as damaging. Teaching to the test narrowed curricula.

Education

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

If we have eight periods in a day and decide students need six academic subjects, a lunch, and a period of physical education, what is the value statement here? The role of leadership is important as well, and over time we began to think about the conditions that allow for excitement, experimentation, failure, and revision to occur.

Education

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Murphy: Over my career, I've learned that taking a top-down approach to implementation without acknowledging other perspectives and inviting key stakeholders leads to failure—no matter how fantastic your initiative is. We heard comments like…‘It would be incredible if I could do it from home.’

Learning

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. The same is true in highly performance-based environments like physical education and practical and applied arts. There’s lots of ways kids can express their understanding.

Testing

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom. Also integrating nutrition and healthy lifestyles into our physical education can improve physical wellness.

Middle School