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More questions. Fewer easy answers.

Books should not confirm everything readers already believe. They should create enough friction to make certainty slightly less comfortable.

Michael J. Canuel, Ed.D.

The Cynical Educator

Question everything.

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The Cynical Educator

How Our Educational System Is Failing Our Children and Compromising Their Future

Education has reached a crossroads: artificial intelligence, changing workplaces, declining engagement, and persistent inequity. Yet many institutional responses remain rooted in assumptions developed decades ago.

This book examines why innovation so rarely survives, how assessment can distort learning, what leadership requires, why parents matter, and what meaningful change actually looks like.

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Field Notes

Sacred Cows & Other Bad Ideas

Evidence over orthodoxy.

In Development

Sacred Cows & Other Bad Ideas

Field notes from education's most protected assumptions.

A collection of sharp, research-informed essays about the claims educators repeat, the rituals institutions preserve, and the questions children need adults to ask.

Written with evidence, experience, humour, and a refusal to confuse seriousness with solemnity.

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Inside the Work

What gets examined.

Why innovation rarely survives institutional contact
Assessment's hidden damage
Artificial intelligence and the future of learning
The changing role of parents
Leadership failures disguised as stability
What meaningful change actually demands