Archive - Learning to Read, Reading to Learn

Integrative and Applied Learning: Linking Thinking and Doing in College

7 hrs ago • Terry Underwood, PhD

Consider how much work the word time does.

Jun 10 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Learning to Learn from Learning at Scale: Warm, Cool, Hard

There was a golden moment in American education — a genuine awakening to the need to change schools to meet a changing world.

Jun 8 • Terry Underwood, PhD

What Part of a Grade Belongs to the Student?

When a student walks into a classroom for the first time, she carries a grade with her.

Jun 6 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Moving Beyond Scientifically Sanctioned Phonics Instruction

Starting a movement to repeal the phonics laws

Jun 4 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Lethal Mutations In Teaching: How American Classrooms Exchanged the ZPD for the ZRP

Zone of Reward and Punishment

Jun 3 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Killing Me Softly with Your Rubric

Remember the Rubric!

Jun 2 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Beyond the One and Done: When Old Hearts Become Young Again

When a statistic is useless to clinicians but perfect for a headline, it’s not a finding from analysis, it’s a gift to a narcissistic President or a…

Jun 1 • Terry Underwood, PhD

May 2026

Harvard, If You're Listening...

Grade inflation is among the oldest running complaints in American higher education, and for nearly as long, it has been understood as a problem…

May 30 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Reaching for the Gorgeous: Harvard's Race to Save the "A" in the Age of AI

A few days ago, I was ready to resist Harvard’s newly announced grading policy with everything I had.

May 26 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Too Many A's, Too Few A-'s

Such a problem to have!

May 25 • Terry Underwood, PhD

Computational Ethnography: A Contradiction in Terms?

If we are lucky, we can remember at least one teacher who made a difference.

May 24 • Terry Underwood, PhD