Ed Next Book Club: Tony Wagner on Creating Innovators
In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Mike Petrilli sits down with Tony Wagner to discuss his new book
In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Mike Petrilli sits down with Tony Wagner to discuss his new book
What's needed are smart policies: strong teacher professional standards, rigorous standards for and assessments of prep programs, and exacting rules on education certification
A first look at today's education news: A new Boston school-assignment plan that looks at both geography and quality faces a committee hearing today, debates rage in Alabama over a tax-credit-scholarship program and Common Core implementation, and more
Conducted jointly by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, the new research study Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality sheds light on charter performance — in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis. These cities were highlighted because they have relatively large numbers of charter schools and charter school students. These are cities where charters have been part of the educational landscape for a decade or more. Read this exciting report today!
A first look at today's education news: An NYC panel rejected a school-closure moratorium, the NSF issues a call for multidisciplinary research on education, and more
10 TV shows for kids that are educational and engaging
A first look at education news from this weekend and today: South Dakota authorizes school employees to carry guns while on the job, Massachusetts lawmakers consider removing the charter school cap in the lowest-performing districts, and more
Keeping up with education headlines
Online and blended learning alter some of the most basic characteristics of traditional schooling—and the ripples extend much, much farther
A first look at today's education news: 10 percent of Philly's public schools are slated to close, New York becomes the first state to drop the GED exam, and more
A first look at today's education news: The LA school board election results draw a range of reactions, NBC Nightly News will take on race-based goals in states' NCLB waiver plans, and more
Overcoming structural barriers to school reform
Critical acclaim for this must-read governance text
A first look at today's education news: The struggle over whether to close a neighborhood high school in Philadelphia reflects struggles in many other school districts, a judge plans to rule whether Alabama's governor can sign into law a tax-credit-scholarship bill, and more
A first look at today's education news: Arne Duncan takes back his "pink-slips" assertion, a Louisiana judge throws out Gov. Jindal's education-reform package, and more
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: the LA school-board election attracts national attention and dollars, three new states apply for NCLB waivers, and more
A first look at today's education news: NYC has picked out Common Core-aligned textbooks and materials, fact-checkers question Arne Duncan's sequestration claims, and more
A first look at today's education news: The Obama Administration predicts dire consequences for Title I and special education if sequestration is not stopped, CPS plans to get tough on underperforming charters, and more
Fascinating results from Florida’s natural experiment
A first look at today's education news: Mathematica Policy Research finds that KIPP charters produce substantial achievement gains, a union-run charter is granted a two-year reprieve despite mixed achievement results, and more
A first look at today's education news: English and U.S. History remain the most popular AP courses, high school dropouts cost $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue each year, and more
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: Sequestration threatens 400 teacher and aide positions, CREDO finds that NYC's charters are quality, and more
A first look at today's education news: A new analysis of NAEP scores contains a plethora of information, Arne Duncan implies strongly that he may grant district-level NCLB waivers, and more
Following the release of Fordham's report, School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring?, Mike Petrilli and Adam Emerson sat down with John Kirtley of Step Up for Students to talk about when private schools choose to participate in choice programs. While Fordham found that Catholic schools were less likely to be deterred by accountability regulations, Kirtley took a slightly different tack. Watch to find out more!
A first look at today's education news: Teacher job satisfaction is at a twenty-five-year low, one in five students took and passed an AP exam, and more
A government policy developed by mostly-benevolent leaders can do incalculable harm to those it was designed to help
When it a CRPE report on modernizing state education agencies, Andy is of two minds