Education Gadfly Show #797: Why debunked reading practices continue to spread
The Education Gadfly Show #785: Helping students fight disinformation online
The Education Gadfly Show #784: Remote learning worked well for some students. What schools can learn from that.
The Education Gadfly Show #783: One teacher’s call for choice and content-rich curricula
The Education Gadfly Show #782: Whatever you do, don’t call it social and emotional learning
How to Sell SEL: Parents and the Politics of Social-Emotional Learning
Adam Tyner, Ph.D.This report examines parents’ opinions on SEL and pitfalls in communicating about it. It finds overwhelming support for the essence of SEL and its place in schools, but differences by political party and challenges in getting the terminology right.
The Education Gadfly Show #776: Can curriculum reform succeed where the rest of standards-based reform failed?
Seeking a Truce in the Civics & History Wars: Is 'Educating for American Democracy' the Answer?
Like the cicadas now infesting the mid-Atlantic, debates over how to present American history and civics to our children come around with striking regularity. In the early 1990s, the focus was on proposed national standards for U.S. history, which the Senate eventually condemned with a vote of 99–1. A few years ago, the dust-up was over the Advanced Placement U.S. History course.
The Acceleration Imperative: A Plan to Address Elementary Students’ Unfinished Learning in the Wake of Covid-19
In school districts and charter school networks nationwide, instructional leaders are developing plans to address the enormous challenges faced by their students, families, teachers, and staff over the past year. To help kick-start their planning process, we are proud to present The Acceleration Imperative, an open-source, evidence-based document created with input from dozens of current and former chief academic officers, scholars, and others with deep expertise and experience in high-performing, high-poverty elementary schools.
The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring
Mike Goldstein, Bowen PaulleHigh-dosage tutoring is receiving a lot of buzz as a promising tool to address learning loss in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. But unlike vaccines, successful tutoring programs are challenging to scale with fidelity. In this paper, long-time educators Michael Goldstein and Bowen Paulle explain how leaders can smartly scale promising tutoring programs that can boost student outcomes.