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Commentary
8.19.2020
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

When it comes to education, conservatives should stand for excellence

Michael J. Petrilli

Equity need not be pitted against excellence. But let’s not pretend there are no trade-offs. The two are in tension, if not actual conflict, in many matters of policy and practice. We can assume that progressives will always take the “equity” side. So if conservatives don’t make excellence a priority—be it in matters organizational, academic, or related to extracurricular activities and other nonacademic pursuits—nobody will.

Commentary
8.19.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance

Why conservatives should care about curriculum

Robert Pondiscio

Editor’s note: This was first published as part of the American Enterprise Institute’s Sketching a New Conservative Agenda Series.

Commentary
8.19.2020
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Short classroom interruptions add up to big time losses

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

Perhaps it is only when we lose something that we realize its true value. A recent study by Matthew Kraft and Manuel Monti-Nussbaum finds that in-person teaching time in the classroom—now a precious commodity that many students and teachers won’t experience again for a while—was not properly safeguarded when we had it.

Commentary
8.19.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Most parents want to cancel school until the spring, finds a new Harris Poll study

Brandon L. Wright

A newly released study by The Harris Poll fielded during the first week of August finds that 57 percent of parents of school-age children “wish schools would just cancel this fall and re-open in the spring.” An even higher percentage of fathers—63 percent—say so.