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3.4.2021

Personalized learning for the wee ones in the wake of the pandemic, Part I

Michael J. Petrilli

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of posts about envelope-pushing strategies that schools might embrace to address students’ learning loss in the wake of the pandemic.

3.4.2021

Cautious hope for a new history-and-civics roadmap

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
3.4.2021

Lessons for standardized testing from the cancellation of the NFL scouting combine

Dale Chu
2.25.2021

Power to the people? Part 2: History’s lessons for “community control”

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
2.25.2021

Charter school growth increases resources in district-run schools

Patrick Wolf
2.18.2021

Teacher unions are the only ones being coldly rational about reopening schools

Dale Chu
2.18.2021

Power to the people? Part I

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
2.11.2021

Literacy is equity

Robert Pondiscio
2.9.2021

Are charter schools a drain on district finances?

David Griffith, Michael J. Petrilli
1.28.2021

What to do about the Covid kindergarten cohort?

Michael J. Petrilli
3.4.2021

Jay Mathews’s admirable optimism about American education

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
3.4.2021

Digging deeply into the data on school turnarounds

Olivia Piontek
2.12.2021

How schools should spend federal Covid-19 aid

Brandon L. Wright
2.11.2021

Massive student loan forgiveness would be a lost opportunity to help needy Americans

Michael J. Petrilli
2.11.2021

What drives racial gaps in special education identification?

Melissa Gutwein
1.19.2021

New York City’s dismantling of gifted education could hurt Black and Hispanic children most

Brandon L. Wright
2.4.2021

Predicting students’ academic trajectory from third grade test scores

Olivia Piontek

Ohio

3.1.2021

Budget proposal unwisely lowers the graduation bar in science and social studies

Jessica Poiner
3.1.2021

All students should have the option of daily in-person instruction

Aaron Churchill , Chad L. Aldis
2.18.2021

A reply to the anti-testers

Aaron Churchill
3.1.2021

Widening the pipeline for computer science education

Jeff Murray
2.26.2021

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Chad L. Aldis, Jeff Murray
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