Podcast
Accountability & Testing
The Education Gadfly Show: Does Biden have the right tack on school reopenings?
Commentary
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders
Literacy is equity
Any discussion about “equity” in education that is not first and foremost a discussion about literacy is unserious.
Commentary
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders
How ya gonna keep ‘em back in that old school?
If the pandemic vanished tomorrow and all U.S. schools instantly reopened in exactly the same fashion as they were operating last February, how many parents would be satisfied to return their daughters and sons to the same old familiar classrooms, teachers, schedules and curricula? A lot fewer than the same old schools and those who run and teach in them are expecting back!
Commentary
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders
How anger over Covid closures can fuel the school choice movement
The father testifying before Virginia’s Loudon County school board
Commentary
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Teachers & School Leaders
Predicting students’ academic trajectory from third grade test scores
Thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act, annual testing in math and reading for students in grades three through eight became mandatory in every state beginning in 2005.
