Don’t confuse jargon with rigor
At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter
At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.
In AEI’s latest Vision Talks video, Arthur Brooks, its president and the happiest man in the think-tank world, argues that public-policy advocates need to make a better cas
Some of ed reform’s leading lights finally see that what kids learn makes a difference. Robert Pondiscio
Perhaps the highest praise you can heap on another writer’s work is to acknowledge a tinge of professional jealousy. You read a blog post, column, or piece of reporting and think, “Damn, I wish I’d written that.” Here are some of the pieces—about Common Core and education at large—I wish I’d written in 2014.
Previously, I posted about the perils of applying standards-driven instruction to reading classrooms.
Some interesting trends and projections emerge from limited private school data
Welcome to a special Fordham-in-the-news edition of Late Bell.
Just in time for Christmas, my Fordham colleague Mike Petrilli has left a present under the tree for inquisitive children and busy parents who don’t think the sky will fall if the kids get a little screen time now and again (it won’t).
New report digs deep into student performance data.
On today's Room for Debate series at the New York Times, p
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form on the Commentary website.
Editor's note: This post first appeared in a slightly different form on Watchdog.org.Republicans are still gleeful after their 2014 victories in the U.S. Senate and statehouses across the nation. They should be, but they should also take heed.
New report on authorization practices across the United States.
Editor's note: This post is the second entry of a multi-part series of interviews featuring Fordham's own Andy Smarick and Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at Holy Cross.
Editor's note: This post is the first entry of a multi-part series of interviews featuring Fordham's own Andy Smarick and Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at Holy Cross.
College isn’t the only springboard to the middle class. Michael J. Petrilli
Good morning. It’s wonderful to see so many friends and colleagues here today. My name is Michael Petrilli, and in August I took over as the president of the Thomas B.
You can’t teach reading the way you teach other subjects. Kathleen Porter-Magee
A college-track student looks back with envy at career-track schooling. Emily Hanford
In England, all schools feature “distributed leadership.” Here, not so much. Michael J. Petrilli and Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
President Obama’s contempt for the Constitution, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s unfortunate disregard of that document, have been loudly and justly decried by critics of executive overreach. Less heralded, but equally troubling, is the mission creep of the Office for Civil Rights as it works to reshape the education world and to right whatever alleged wrongs it thinks it sees.
[Editor's note: This is part two of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.
I recently wrote about exciting new charter school results in Washington, D.C..
[Editor's note: This is part one of a multi-part series on the use of prior knowledge in literacy. It originally appeared in a slightly different form at Tim Shanahan's blog, Shanahan on Reading.]
As my Bellwether colleague (and D.C.
Looking back and looking forward at the Cristo Rey school model.
Looking at improvements in Texas charter school performance over the years.
Give ‘em great books and get out of the way. Peter Sipe