Announcing the Fordham Institute's third annual Wonkathon. This year's topic: ESSA and parental choice
In 2014, we hosted our first-ever Wonkathon, which was dedicated to the subject of charter school policy.
In 2014, we hosted our first-ever Wonkathon, which was dedicated to the subject of charter school policy.
The whole point of the Every Student Succeeds Act was to revert financial and regulatory authority back to states after No Child Left Behind’s era of federal supremacy.
Are we ready to expand career and technical education offerings as the next frontier in education policy?
By Michael J. Petrilli
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a full committee hearing titled “ESSA Implementation in States and School Districts: Perspectives from the U.S. Secretary of Education,” the first of a series of oversight hearings on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Credit recovery is education’s Faustian pact. We remain not very good at raising most students to respectable standards. But neither can we refuse to graduate boxcar numbers of kids who don’t measure up.
By Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D. and Brandon Wright
Princeton University announced last week that it would preserve the name of Woodrow Wilson on several buildings and programs, though it had plenty of reasons to do otherwise.
By Jamie Davies O’Leary
By Darien Wynn
It should be great news: Graduation rates for Minnesota’s black and Hispanic students—which have long lagged the rate for white students—are on the rise.But how much do these new graduates actually know? What skills have they mastered? In other words, what is their high school diploma really worth?