In this article Dr. Stephen Fleenor offers a bold new vision for how we might think about how kids learn in schools, inspired by the teachings of The Karate Kid's Mr. Miyagi. It is my sincere and profound hope that every public high school student in the United States right now is thinking to him-or herself, “honestly, what is the point of all of this?” There once was a good boy named Daniel who thought exactly the same thing. His wise teacher, Mr. Miyagi, gave him the rigor

This is the third article in a series of articles that seeks to offer a new vision for what school report cards might look like so we can more accurately and fairly tell a good school from one that is struggling. The Vision So Far In the last two blog posts I have begun to lay out a vision for how we might rethink report cards so as to give a fuller, more accurate picture of school quality. This vision takes into account the two most important elements of an effective school:

This is the second article in a series of articles that seeks to offer a new vision for what school report cards might look like so we can more accurately and fairly tell a good school from one that is struggling. The New School Report Card In our last blog post we examined how school report cards, which purport to measure school quality, are mainly a report on how well students take standardized tests, which measure low levels of processing and basic skills rather than the 2