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Curriculum & Instruction
How educational software affected student achievement in Washington, D.C.
By Andrew Scanlan
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Curriculum & Instruction
Finding the right tool for the job: Improving reading and writing in the classroom
By Victoria Sears
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Curriculum & Instruction
Knowledge matters: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.'s fifth book on education is as important as his first
By Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Project-based learning needs more learning
After almost eighteen years in the field of education, I have become convinced of the need to transform the way our children learn so that they can confront the unknowable challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning
Enrollment and Achievement in Ohio's Virtual Charter Schools
This Fordham study, conducted by learning technology researcher June Ahn from NYU, dives into one of the most promising—and contentious—issues in education today: virtual schools. What type of students choose them? Which online courses do students take? Do virtual schools lead to improved outcomes for kids?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Let's re-introduce competition into our classrooms
By Frank C. Worrell and Rena F. Subotnik
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Curriculum & Instruction
Does Common Core Math expect memorization? A candid conversation with Jason Zimba
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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Charter Schools, Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Little California love for charters
Darius Brown’s educational biography,
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Curriculum & Instruction
Becky with the good education: A Twitter hashtag offers a surprising lesson in cultural literacy
By Robert Pondiscio
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Curriculum & Instruction, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders
Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey
In Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey, Jennifer Bay Williams, Ann Duffett, and David Griffith take a close look at how educators are implementing the Common Core math standards in classrooms across the nation.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Open educational resources are just building blocks—an education requires an architect
If there were just one thing I could say to fans of open educational resources (OER) and personalized learning, it would be this: “Atomized units of knowledge don’t build anything.” That quote comes from an education reformer who used to teach in a high-powered classical school.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Knowledge needs champions
Harriet Tubman will grace the front of our $20 bill—a long-overdue tribute to a woman who lived up to the best of American values. But do most Americans know who she was?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Failing by design: How we make teaching too hard for mere mortals
By Robert Pondiscio
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Curriculum & Instruction
The next steps for career preparation
Are we ready to expand career and technical education offerings as the next frontier in education policy?
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Curriculum & Instruction, Charter Schools
Policy change is not the only path to school reform
By Michael J. Petrilli
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Curriculum & Instruction
Using online courses for credit recovery
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Princeton dealt with its Woodrow Wilson problem perfectly
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.
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Career & Technical Education
Career and Technical Education in High School: Does It Improve Student Outcomes?
Fordham’s latest study, by the University of Connecticut's Shaun M. Dougherty, uses data from Arkansas to explore whether students benefit from CTE coursework—and, more specifically, from focused sequences of CTE courses aligned to certain industries.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The U.S. workforce lags behind its international counterparts
By Darien Wynn
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Curriculum & Instruction
"Culturally relevant pedagogy" limits minority students
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?
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Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
How tracking can raise the test scores of high-ability minority students
By David Griffith
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Curriculum & Instruction
The 2016 Brown Center report on education: How well are American students learning?
By Robert Pondiscio
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