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Commentary
11.20.2023
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

9 thoughts on the Advanced Placement takedown in the Times

Michael J. Petrilli

Over the weekend, the New York Times published a hard-hitting 2,300-word expose by Dana Goldstein and colleagues asking “Why is the College Board pushing to expand Advanced Placement?” Its primary answer: to rake in tens of millions of dollars a year and to support CEO David Coleman’s exorbitant sal

Commentary
11.17.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

How to bridge racial and socioeconomic gaps in advanced education

Abigail Hamilton

“Excellence gaps,” or disparities in advanced academic performance between student groups, have important implications for both academic equity and American economic competitiveness.

Commentary
11.16.2023
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear might be a moderate Democrat, but he’s no education reformer

Daniel Buck

After handily defeating his Republican rival for the governorship of red-hued Kentucky, Democrat Andy Beshear is having a moment as a center-left moderate who could run for president in 2028. But we education reformers should curb our enthusiasm because Beshear’s stances are alien to ours.

Commentary
11.16.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Do schools provide equal value to all their students?

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

Previous literature on school quality and teacher quality largely assumes that good schools and good teachers are beneficial for all enrolled children, which means that a school’s “value added” is typically calculated as the average effect on students.

Commentary
11.9.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

School choice isn’t killing traditional public schools. It’s making them better.

Michael J. Petrilli

The impact of school choice on traditional school districts, what scholars call its “competitive effects,” is an area in which there is much high-quality research. A new book critical of choice fails to wrestle with this fact.

Commentary
11.2.2023
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance

A new paper fails to prove that accountability impedes innovation in charter schools

David Griffith

Welcome to the latest installment of the Regulation Wars, a long-running family quarrel that centers on the perceived tensions between two of the charter school movement’s founding principles: innovation and execution (or, if you prefer, autonomy and accountability).