Building a better (community) college student through remediation
Jeff MurrayBy Jeff Murray
Teacher Evaluation Reforms and the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
High-potential students thrive when school districts develop sustainable gifted services
The goal of gifted programs should reflect that of any other educational program: to engage students with appropriately challenging curricula and instruction on a daily basis and in all relevant content areas so that they can make continual academic growth.
Poor and working-class Americans have gotten hammered. Here's how to help their children do better.
Michael J. PetrilliBy Michael J. Petrilli
Education for Upward Mobility
Michael J. PetrilliIn Education for Upward Mobility, editor Michael J. Petrilli and more than a dozen leading scholars and policy analysts seek answers to a fundamental question: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play?
How do Ohio’s urban high schoolers perform? Part one: Graduation rates and ACT scores
Jamie Davies O'LearyFirst in a deep-dive series looking at urban high schools across the Buckeye State
One size may fit most, but certainly not the gifted and talented
Last fall, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a working paper by researchers Thomas S. Dee and Hans Henrik Sieversten titled The Gift of Time? School Starting Age and Mental Health. The well-developed study quantifies the effects of predicating enrollment in formal schooling on the mental health of students.
Laying the foundation for the next decade of D.C. reform
Here’s the speech I wish Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser would give:
The Coates-Miranda edition
In this week’s podcast, Robert Pondiscio and Alyssa Schwenk contrast the views of two MacArthur “geniuses,” weigh the role of “life experiences” in the college admissions process, and question reform critics’ push to block John King’s confirmation as education secretary. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern explains how DCPS gathers various data on teacher hiring but doesn't make the best use of them.
Harvesting Success: Charter schools in rural America
Andrew ScanlanBy Andrew Scanlan
A guide for designing and reforming teacher support and evaluation systems
Jessica PoinerBy Jessica Poiner
Education reform's women—and the credit and opportunities they deserve
When the history of this era’s urban-education reform movement is written, four big policy innovations are sure to get attention: the nation’s first voucher program, first charter law, first mayor-controlled charter authorizer, and first “
Detroit is failing its students, and politicians are failing Detroit
Kevin MahnkenAfter roughly a year of presidential politicking during which education has been given short shrift, two primary debates over the past few days have restored the issue to news cycle relevance. Both were held in troubled Michigan cities in advance of today’s crucial primary.
Ohio school report cards: The end of education’s era of good feelings
Aaron ChurchillThe "ratings bubble" bursts for Ohio’s schools and districts
Whose America is it? Why I want my students to read Ta-Nehisi Coates but believe Lin-Manuel Miranda
Robert PondiscioBy Robert Pondiscio
Pencils down: What I learned from studying the quality of state tests
Morgan PolikoffEditor’s note: This is the last in a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at the findings and implications of Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments, Fordham’s new first-of-its-kind report.
How well do next-generation tests measure higher-order thinking skills?
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Victoria McDougaldEditor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at the findings and implications of Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments, Fordham’s new first-of-its-kind report.
The Oscars edition
In this week’s podcast, Joel Rose of New Classrooms joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how technology makes “differentiation” doable, non-cognitive skills under ESSA, and the future of Success Academies in New York City. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how teacher reforms have affected teacher effectiveness.
How school suspensions could engender racial disparities in academic achievement
Andrew ScanlanBy Andrew Scanlan
The effect of teacher demographic representation on student attendance and suspensions
Jamie Davies O'LearyBy Jamie Davies O’Leary
How the Louisiana voucher system affected students
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
Using ESSA to fix reading: Implications for state policy
Robert PondiscioBy Lisa Hansel and Robert Pondiscio
The next phase of D.C. reform
If you’re at all interested in Washington, D.C. schools, you should read this excellent report by David Osborne. It serves as a quick and comprehensive history lesson on the city’s last two decades of reform.
Leaving talent on the table: Fixing gifted education in America
Talk is cheap.For decades, elected officials, education leaders, and others have consumed much oxygen talking about the challenges facing our nation from countries doing a much better job developing their academic talent.Despite this the reality is that we have largely failed to address this concern as many of our most talented children are being overlooked and uncultivated.