Imperfect Attendance: Toward a fairer measure of student absenteeism
The need to understand how schools can improve student attendance has never been greater. This study breaks new ground by examining high schools’ contributions to attendance—that is, their “attendance value-added.”
Jing Liu, Ph.D. 4.13.2022
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Education Gadfly Show #851: The case for teaching writing in the age of ChatGPT, with Checker Finn
David Griffith, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 1.4.2023
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Would capturing student growth in grades K–2 lead to different school ratings?
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 12.22.2022
NationalFlypaper
Education Gadfly Show #850: 2022’s most important education stories, with Marc Porter Magee
Michael J. Petrilli, Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Marc Porter Magee 12.20.2022
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10 signs of progress in gifted education—and reasons for hope in the new year
Brandon L. Wright 12.20.2022
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Why learn to write?
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 12.16.2022
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Friendships between rich and poor promote upward mobility: School career pathways program help do this
Bruno V. Manno 12.16.2022
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Artificial intelligence is not the end of high-school English
Robert Pondiscio 12.15.2022
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How to supercharge student learning
Eva Moskowitz 12.15.2022
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For the love of memorization
Daniel Buck 12.15.2022
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Times change, principles endure: Bill Bennett’s "Book of Virtues" at 30
Robert Pondiscio 12.15.2022
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Teachers should replace “the soft bigotry of low expectations” with “the suspension of disbelief”
Michael J. Petrilli 12.8.2022
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Institutionalism, not policy, is the biggest barrier to reinventing high schools
Chelsea Waite 12.8.2022
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