Teaching Must Adapt to Life-Long Digital Native Students In a recent op-ed, writing instructor Colleen Kinder extols the virtue of an internet sabbatical for her students. As cleansing as that may be, digital native students won’t be able to take a lifelong vacation from their indispensable devices.  A recent power outage that zapped my internet reinforced for me how reliant we already are on…

Critical to Reverse Lagging Test Scores, Chronic Absenteeism New York City has 900,000 public school students, 1,500 schools and a $41 billion annual operating budget. By comparison, Oregon has fewer than 550,000 students, 1,200 schools and state and local funding totaling $16.7 billion in the current biennium. Credit: Andrew Reed/EdSource Both have similar problems – lackluster reading and…

Tapogna Cites Housing, Taxation and School Performance John Tapogna volunteered for the Peace Corps in Chile, worked as an analyst for the Congressional Budget Office and served as president of ECONorthwest, a multistate economic consulting firm based in Portland. He is affable, collaborative and firm in his view that Oregon has run out of mojo. In a recent interview with the Oregon Journalism…