Education

American Center for Transforming Education

Don NIelsen Interview

What Is Learning Readiness?

You often talk about student learning readiness being ignored and the need for individualized learning versus group learning, a longer school day and year, and an achievement versus time education system. Share with us about differing student learning readiness and the solutions you propose to address it. Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

Why Does Brain Development Matter?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you talk about brain development and early childhood education. Share with us more about these topics. Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

Why Work at the State Level?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you talk about the need for K-12 education to be transformed at the state level. Why the state? Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

What Are the Key Areas of K-12?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you write about the need to transform three areas of K-12 education — teaching, leadership, and governance. Why those three areas?

Don NIelsen Interview

What Did You Learn in Singapore?

A few years ago Don Nielsen traveled to Singapore to see how they train and select teachers. He tells us how Singapore differs from the United States.

Don NIelsen Interview

What Does Your Game Plan Include?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you outline a game plan for transforming K-12 education at the state level. What does that game plan include?

Don NIelsen Interview

Does Mission Matter in K-12?

In your book, Every School: One Citizen’s Guide to Transforming Education, you talk about the mission of the school being largely missing from the conversation. Can you expand upon that? Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

What Do You Think About School Choice?

Right now, school choice is expanding and gaining traction in many states throughout our nation. What are your thoughts on school choice — both inside the public system and outside the system? Read More ›
Don NIelsen Interview

What is the Path Forward?

What do you envision as the path forward to truly transforming K-12 education within the United States?