Climbing the Pyramid

The goal is not simply knowing a bunch of facts; it's being able to think deeply and do interesting things with what you know.

When we wring our hands and worry about what students know and what students can do, we often take a very binary approach: they either know or they don’t know a fact; they either can or can’t perform a skill. It’s a well-known way of talking about student learning, but it doesn’t get to the heart of what young people need in order to be successful adult…