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Podcast
12.12.2018

The Education Gadfly Show: America’s choice deserts

On this week’s podcast, Lindsey Rust, National Director of Implementation for the American Federation of Children, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss whether private schools serve as oases in charter school deserts. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines whether parents’ aspirations for their children to go to college someday are affected by receiving new information on the cost, and returns, on completing post-secondary education.

Commentary
12.11.2018

How to help children get on, and stay on, the "success track"

In my new book, The Forgotten Americans, I revisit what has come to be called “the success sequence.” That’s the idea that if a young person gets a decent education (at least high school), works full-time, and finds a committed partner to marry before having children, that person’s chances of achieving the

Commentary
12.11.2018

NCAA and credit recovery

The NCAA cares a great deal about college readiness, access, and success. As we work to stay current on trends and issues in education, one of our greatest challenges is maintaining an open mind to innovation in the field of education, while also guarding against propensities for shortcuts. Nowhere is this more difficult than with online learning and credit recovery (CR).

Event
12.6.2018
Accountability & Testing, Advanced Education

Education 20/20: Ian Rowe and Michael Barone

The Education 20/20 speaker series resumes on December 11th with another all-star double-header. Ian Rowe will lead off by arguing for the inclusion of family structure in measures of student achievement. Then Michael Barone will explore the educational travails—past, present, and future—of gifted students and what might be done to ease the pain.

Podcast
12.5.2018

The Education Gadfly Show: The sad state of credit recovery

On this week’s podcast, Samantha Viano, Assistant Professor of Education at George Mason University, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss Fordham’s new study of credit recovery programs, and her own work on the subject. On the Research Minute, Adam Tyner examines how high school start times affect student outcomes.

Commentary
12.5.2018

What is the value of earning college credit from AP?

Andrew Scanlan

College-level courses taken while in high school have never been more popular. Chief among these sources is Advanced Placement (AP), whose five million exams were taken by almost three million students in 2018.

Event
12.5.2018
Career & Technical Education

Education 20/20: Kay Hymowitz and Nicholas Eberstadt

For part two of our Education 20/20 speaker series on the purpose of K-12 education, we’re joined by Kay Hymowitz and Nicholas Eberstadt as they discuss parenting, soft skills, the decline of male labor participation, and what schools can (and can’t) do about it.

Commentary
11.30.2018

Addressing the ‘gifted gap’: Three strategies

As an educational community, we are constantly analyzing our strengths and weaknesses to determine how well we are meeting the needs of all students. Often, we measure our performance in terms of ‘growth’ and ‘gaps’.

Report
11.29.2018
Accountability & Testing, ESSA, Curriculum & Instruction, Standards

Gotta Give 'Em Credit: State and District Variation in Credit Recovery Participation Rates

Adam Tyner, Ph.D., Nicholas Munyan-Penney

Credit recovery, or the practice of enabling high school students to retrieve credits from courses that they either failed or failed to complete, is at the crossroads of two big trends in education: the desire to move toward “competency based” education and a push to dramatically boost graduation rates.

Podcast
11.28.2018

The Education Gadfly Show: How to separate the wheat from the chaff on technical credentials

On this week’s podcast, Mary Alice McCarthy, a director of the Center on Education and Skills at New America, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how leading states like Florida are vetting thousands of technical credentials to identify the ones worth pursuing. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the relationship across the globe between testing policies and student achievement.

Commentary
11.28.2018

Improving student motivation and engagement

Robert Pondiscio

There’s a terrific story about the late Frank McCourt, who became famous as the author of Angela’s Ashes and other books, but who was Mr. McCourt the English teacher to a generation of students at Stuyvesant High and other New York City schools. One day a student asked what possible use a particular work of literature he assigned would have in his life.

Commentary
11.28.2018

Civic engagement versus civics education

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

There’s much about Montgomery County, Maryland, that I appreciate—starting with the fact that it’s been a fine home for me and my family for forty-plus years.

Event
11.28.2018
Curriculum & Instruction

Education 20/20: Naomi Schaefer Riley and Jonah Goldberg

Our Education 20/20 speaker series continues with a double-header event. First up, Naomi Schaefer Riley discusses the limits of school choice. Then Jonah Goldberg argues that civics education need to reclaim the ideals of American democracy.

Commentary
11.28.2018

"Lord knows I love my kids": Poverty, family formation, and the future of education reform

Ian Rowe

“They already made up in their mind that they’re not going to give [my children] back. I feel as though they want me to say, ‘F**k it, let me just sign, take ’em.’ I get to that point. I get there. That’s why I’ve been late. I can be on time. But when I’m at home getting ready, I don’t see an end to this tunnel, I don’t see a light, it’s just pitch black.

Commentary
11.27.2018

The school choice landscape following the 2018 election

After the recent mid-term election, we published our analysis of newly elected and re-elected governors and where they stand on the issue of private school choice. We also saw changes at the state legislative level that could have implications for educational choice.

Commentary
11.27.2018

Hoorah for charter schools serving kids with disabilities

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

You might think the executive director of an organization called the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools would place the interests of children seeking the best possible special ed that charter schools can provide for them ahead of the policy preferences of IDEA (the federal special-ed law).