The Sideline Journal

01/28/2026

We’ve been talking about fixing education for decades.

New schedules.
New policies.
New pilot programs.

And yet… almost nothing fundamentally changes.
Not because the problems are unsolvable.
But because we keep getting stuck at the surface.

The real question isn’t what we should change.
It’s why meaningful change never seems to happen at all.

(Full piece linked in comments.)

01/27/2026

This sounds convincing.
The full story is more nuanced than it seems.

I slowed down and looked at the data here ⬇️
https://medium.com//since-1980-not-a-single-academic-metric-has-improved-83639174488a

01/24/2026

This piece came out of coaching, parenting, and learning the hard way that clarity usually shows up after the noise dies down. If you’ve ever learned more off the field than on it, this one’s for you.

If you’ve ever led people you care about — kids, a team, a family — you know how fast moments can get loud.