One giant leap for teacher development
Leap Year, TNTP's latest offering, looks under the hood of the first year of teaching
Leap Year, TNTP's latest offering, looks under the hood of the first year of teaching
A first look at the news from this weekend and today: The evidence mounts against turning around schools, Texas's rigid truancy laws may be on their way out, and more
A first look at today's education news: Florida may consider tests other than PARCC, dissident teachers in Mexico ramp up protests, and more
Thirty years ago, A Nation at Risk was released to a surprised country. Suddenly, Americans woke up to learn that SAT scores were plummeting and children were learning a lot less than before. This report became a turning point in modern U.S. education history and marked the beginning of a new focus on excellence, achievement, and results. Due in large part to this report, we now judge a school by whether its students are learning rather than how much money is going into it, what its programs look like, or its earnest intentions. Education reform today is serious about standards, quality, assessment, accountability and benchmarking—by school, district, state and nation. This is new since 1983 and it’s very important. Yet we still have many miles to traverse before we sleep. Our students still need to learn far more and our schools need to become far more effective. To recall the impact of A Nation at Risk these past three decades and to reflect on what lies ahead, watch this short retrospective developed by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute: A Nation at Risk: Thirty Years Later.
Smith's new brief tells the story of the still-young Achievement School District in Tennessee
An alternative to the traditional school district with the potential to turn failing schools around has emerged
A first look at today's education news: A new Pew survey finds that U.S. teens aren't doing as badly in science as the public fears, Algebra 2 will become an elective in Florida's high schools, and more
Maybe it isn't as simple as changing incentives
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: Pearson is under fire in both NYC and Texas, Hawaii finally has a teacher contract, and more
There's public, and then there's “public.”
A first look at today's education news: A coalition of parents petitions NYC for more gifted and talented spots, Brown University is set to offer an engineering MOOC for high schoolers, and more
Republicans make a colossal—but reversible—error on the Common Core
The College Board and ACT have entered the ring
A first look at today's education news: Florida teachers are suing over the state's teacher-evaluation formula, the CTU zeroes in on ousting Rahm, and more
As the challenges of education governance loom ever larger and the dysfunction and incapacity of the traditional K-12 system reveal themselves as major roadblocks to urgently-needed reforms across that system, many have asked, “What’s the alternative?”
Alabama’s decision to drop out of both consortia and choose a battery of ACT exams is enormous
A first look at today's education news: The RNC adopts a resolution attacking the Common Core, teacher unions aim to organize charter schools, and more
New Jersey just released new report cards for all schools in the state. The information now available, including indicators of college- and career-readiness and excellent “peer school” comparisons, is invaluable. And it is deeply discomfiting for many of the state’s complacent schools and districts.
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: Some NY school parents are planning to boycott the new Common Core-aligned tests, researchers caution that school districts must be thoughtful about how they close schools, and more
Let's mend it, not end it
A first look at today's education news: More contractors take advantage of NYC's poorly regulated pre-K special-ed program, Indiana's school-voucher expansion hits another snag, and more
Sage advice and news tidbits from Andy Smarick
A first look at today's education news: Simply explaining college admissions processes makes high-achieving students more likely to apply to colleges that match their abilities, robot teachers are on the loose, and more
Lone Star State moves to lower its own standards
Will the new science standards make the grade?
A first look at today's education news: The final NGSS draft and President Obama's budget proposal are out, most LAUSD students aren't prepared for college, and more
A first look at today's education news: Britain's Iron Lady is memorialized, NYC's revamped gifted screening process didn't change much, and more
Foreign policy isn’t all that Margaret Thatcher and her team had in common with Ronald Reagan and his