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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Carmen Fariña's war on evidence
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.
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The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Proof that such programs do keep kids out of harm’s way. Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D.
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Trends in Teacher Certification: Equipping teachers to prepare proficient readers
Licensing tests to insure teachers know how to teach reading? What a concept! Robert Pondiscio
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Quality Counts 2015
Education Week’s annual report confuses preschool quality with preschool quantity. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Standards
Stay the course or turn the page?
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at RegBlog.
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Playing the race card won't save No Child Left Behind
The debate over annual testing is important, but it’s no Brown v. Board of Education. Frederick M. Hess and Michael J. Petrilli
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When government fails us
Monday afternoon, a Washington, D.C., metro rail train stopped in a tunnel not far from a major station, and the car began filling with smoke. Soon the lights went off and, though many passengers were struggling to breathe, they were told by metro employees to stay put.
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ESSA
ESEA update: More red than green in Lamar Alexander's reauthorization bill
Last week, I explained the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind) in a single table:
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Barack Obama's love affair with universality
Free community college diverts resources away from more pressing problems. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Three thoughts about Secretary Duncan's ESEA speech
Overachieving Andy already beat me to the punch with ten thoughts about the secretary’s speech today.
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Accountability & Testing
Ten things to know about Secretary Duncan's ESEA reauthorization speech
As I wrote last week, with the ESEA reauthorization process heating up, lots of advocates are now trying to influence the congressional deliberations. Secretary Duncan weighed in this morning.
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Charter Schools
Vision Talks a better fit for conservatives than ed reformers
In AEI’s latest Vision Talks video, Arthur Brooks, its president and the happiest man in the think-tank world, argues that public-policy advocates need to make a better cas
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Standards
When the standard algorithm is the only algorithm taught
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the Tools for the Common Core Standards blog.
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State chiefs speak on ESEA
The ed-policy world is abuzz: ESEA now probably stands a better chance of being reauthorized than at any time since NCLB’s signing, thirteen years ago yesterday.
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Is it quality or quantity that counts?
Ah, January is upon us: The wind is howling, the thermometer is plummeting, and we are greeted by the nineteenth consecutive edition of Quality Counts, Education Week
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If Congress raises the "Obamacare workweek" to forty hours, many teachers won't qualify
Debate begins today on H.R. 30, a bill to tweak Obamacare so that large employers need not provide insurance for their staff unless they work forty hours per week, versus thirty hours under current law.
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A Better Picture of Poverty: What Chronic Absenteeism and Risk Load Reveal About NYC's Lowest-Income Elementary Schools
One in five Gotham students miss at least 10 percent of the school year. Megan Lail
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All or Nothing? The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Effort and Academic Achievement
Boys do better when girls aren’t around. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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The Educational Attainment of Chicago Public Schools Students: A Focus on Four-Year College Degrees
High-potential students still aren’t being reached. Robert Pondiscio
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Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
2015: The year of curriculum-based reform?
Some of ed reform’s leading lights finally see that what kids learn makes a difference. Robert Pondiscio
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