Unless Grover (Russ) Whitehurst was truly weary of leading the Brookings Institution’s widely respected Brown Center on Education Policy, only demented think-tank hierarchs would have let him exit that role.
I didn’t see common enrollment systems coming.
Was Phil Jackson really a great coach? Despite his reputation as the Zen master of hoops, I’ve never been convinced. After all, Kobe, Shaq, and His Airness would have made any coach look like a genius, and there’s never been a natural experiment quantifying Jackson’s impact.
Outcomes of students with TFA-trained vs. traditionally-trained teachers
Editor's note: This post has been updated with the full text of "Don't know much about history."
Looking at school costs through a cracked lens. Amber Northern
A smart alternative to one-size-fits-all teacher prep. Dominique Coote
New study meets old opinions about TFA. Robert Pondiscio
An open letter to the candidates. Tim Shanahan
It takes more than a "gut feeling" to know how a school is doing
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of personal reflections on the current state of education reform and contemporary conservatism by Andy Smarick, a Bernard Lee Schwartz senior policy fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
The myriad challenges facing school principals in the United States have been well documented, including limited opportunities for distributed leadership, inadequate training, and a lackluster pipeline for new leaders. Recently, the Fordham Institute teamed up with the London-based Education Foundation to seek a better understanding of England’s recent efforts to revamp school leadership.
This post has been updated with the full text of "Shifting from learning to read to reading to learn."
This letter appeared in the 2014 Thomas B. Fordham Institute Annual Report. To learn more, download the report.Fordham friends,
A great resource fact-checks textbooks’ “Common Core-aligned” claims. Victoria Sears
Rating school choice in the country’s biggest districts. Aaron Churchill
A new video series shows what it looks like when your kid meets Common Core benchmarks. Robert Pondiscio
Embrace career and technical education, teach “performance character,” and don’t forget the extracurriculars. Michael J. Petrilli
Taking a look outside the public education monopoly at the educational marketplace
Inter-district open enrollment: the oldest, yet least studied, choice option in Ohio
Just when you thought we’d run out of things to blame on the standards. Kathleen Porter-Magee
On Sunday, Mike spoke to the New York State Council of School Superintendents. These were his remarks as prepared for delivery.
Ever since I published my article in the special Education Next issue marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Moynihan Report, “How can schools address America’s marriage crisis?,” I’ve been hearing from friends—most of them liberal education reformers—questioning why I’d want to wade into such tre
This post has been updated with the full text of "No time to lose on early reading"
One of the most important developments in urban education over the last two decades has been the rapid expansion of school choice.
Coming soon: Fifty states of grey. Jane Song
Both teacher and student characteristics ought to influence instructional design. Megan Lail
But that’s mostly because one-parent families tend to be poor. Kevin Mahnken
