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Robert Pondiscio

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Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs

Robert Pondiscio is senior fellow and vice president for external affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He writes and speaks extensively on education and education-reform issues, with an emphasis on literacy, curriculum, civic education, and classroom practice. His 2019 book, How the Other Half Learns, based on a year of observations at New York City’s Success Academy network of charter schools, was praised as “morally disturbing” and “unsparingly honest” by the New York Times. After twenty years in journalism, including senior positions at TIME and Business Week, Robert became a fifth-grade teacher at a struggling South Bronx public school in 2002. He subsequently served as vice president for the Core Knowledge Foundation, and taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York.

Robert’s articles and op-ed columns on education have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the New York Daily News, Education Next, and dozens of other publications. A frequent speaker and expert guest on education issues, he has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, and elsewhere.

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High Expectations

The civics and history lesson our children need right now

Robert Pondiscio 1.14.2021
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High Expectations

Explicit teaching vs. constructivism: The misadventures of Bean Dad

Robert Pondiscio 1.7.2021
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What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

Robert Pondiscio 12.21.2020
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High Expectations

Reading comprehension is not a “skill”

Robert Pondiscio 12.10.2020
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Teachers’ professional learning should be driven by curriculum

Robert Pondiscio 12.10.2020
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High Expectations

Memo to policymakers: Help teachers focus on reading

Robert Pondiscio 11.19.2020
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