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Commentary
12.16.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

Friendships between rich and poor promote upward mobility: School career pathways program help do this

Bruno V. Manno

Economic connectedness is among the strongest predictors of upward income mobility—stronger than measures like school quality, job availability, family structure, or a community’s racial makeup.

Podcast
12.6.2022
Personalized Learning

Education Gadfly Show #848: Talking about “Unbundling” with Bellwether’s Julie Squire

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith talk with

Undefined
5.11.2022
Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

Education Gadfly Show #819: The pod on (pandemic) pods

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Ashley Jochim, a principal at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Mi

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Commentary
4.26.2022
Personalized Learning

Announcing the National Working Group on Advanced Education

The Education Gadfly

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the National Working Group on Advanced Education. The Working Group’s mission is to promote research, policies, and practices that will develop the full capacities of students with high academic potential, especially Black and Hispanic students and those coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Undefined
2.2.2022
Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

Education Gadfly Show #805: High schools didn’t get the memo that college isn’t for everyone

  On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast (listen on

Podcast
10.14.2021
Career & Technical Education, High Achievers, Personalized Learning

Education Gadfly Show #791: Is this the end of gifted education in New York City?

 

Podcast
8.26.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

The Education Gadfly Show #784: Remote learning worked well for some students. What schools can learn from that.

 

Commentary
6.17.2021
Personalized Learning

Does public preschool benefit students from Kindergarten to college?

Jeff Murray

A trio of researchers from the University of Chicago, MIT, and UC Berkeley recently released a working paper that indicates a multitude of positive long-term effects—very long term, in fact—associated with attendance at public preschool.

Commentary
5.25.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

Lessons learned from 10 years of pioneering blended learning

Jeff Kerscher, Emily Gilbride

In 1908, the Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model T and introduced a reliable, affordable automobile for the middle class. While revolutionary, the Model T also took twelve hours and 7,882 tasks to assemble 1,481 parts, and increased production time meant increased costs. In 1913, Ford introduced an assembly line and cut production to ninety-three minutes.

Commentary
3.26.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

How any school can personalize learning, part II

Beth Rabbitt

In part I of this two-part series, I wrote about three of the most common practices teachers implement in elementary schools that successfully personalize learning: giving each child a learning plan, organizing instruction around class-level and individual mastery, and using grouping an

Commentary
3.19.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

How any school can personalize learning, part I

Beth Rabbitt

In a previous Flypaper post, Mike Petrilli described the challenge of personalizing instruction for our youngest learners as the “Mount Everest” of education.

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Commentary
3.11.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

How elementary schools can address unfinished learning through personalization

Michael J. Petrilli

Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment in a series of posts about envelope-pushing strategies that schools might embrace to address students’ learning loss in the wake of the pandemic.

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Report
3.10.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring

Mike Goldstein, Bowen Paulle

High-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.

Commentary
12.22.2020
Personalized Learning

2020 Recap: New research from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Pedro Enamorado

As with most years, 2020 has been a busy one for the Fordham research team. We published many groundbreaking studies, adding contributions to the evidence base on literacy, civic education, education funding, school choice, and gifted programs, among others.

Podcast
8.5.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

The Education Gadfly Show: Another reason for more school autonomy

On this week’s podcast, David Osborne, director of the Reinventing America’s Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, joins Checker Finn

Commentary
7.13.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

Response to “Let’s rebuild special education when schools reopen”

Alice Parker, Christopher T. Cross

The Fordham Institute recently published an article called “Let’s rebuild special education when schools reopen,” by Anne Delfosse and Miriam Kurtzig Freedman. Reading it prompted both of us to offer our own thoughts, drawn from experience.

Commentary
6.17.2020
Governance, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

Let’s rebuild special education when schools reopen

Anne Delfosse, Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

This spring’s school closures have challenged us to look at many things differently and to be open-minded, creative, and brave about moving toward necessary change. As we consider reopening schools in the fall, let’s hold on to that mindset and ask what should special education become? Does the forty-five-year-old federal law (IDEA) need a thorough redo? We believe it does.

Podcast
5.27.2020
Career & Technical Education, Personalized Learning

The Education Gadfly Show: The link between location and income

This week’s podcast guest is John V.

Podcast
4.15.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

The Education Gadfly Show: How schools can personalize instruction when students return next fall

On this week’s podcast, Diane Tavenner, co-founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools, joins Mike Petrilli and David

Finn at home learning resources
Commentary
3.19.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning

Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures

Emma Finn

Parents who will be homeschooling (temporarily) while schools are closed because of COVID-19 can only do so much to keep kids learning, so do your parents a solid and use this time to find subjects that get you excited! There’s only so much Netflix you can watch before you get a funny taste in the back of your mouth.

Finn at home learning resources
Commentary
3.19.2020
Personalized Learning

Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures

Victoria McDougald

Any working parent of toddlers or infants will tell you that juggling home and work life isn’t without a slew of unique challenges. From chronic sleep deprivation to daily battles with your toddler to put on pants before leaving the house, the life of a working parent ain’t easy.

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Commentary
3.18.2020
Personalized Learning

Daddy School, week one

Mike Goldstein

Since publishing “Daddy School” here on

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low birth weight babies
Commentary
3.18.2020
Personalized Learning

Supporting low birth weight babies helps long after infancy

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

A recent working paper from NBER takes the notion of “early intervention” for e

low birth weight babies
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Commentary
3.16.2020
Personalized Learning

Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures

Michael J. Petrilli

With more than half of states closing their schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other caregivers have become de facto “home schoolers” practically overnight. Students in this situation will likely be spending a fair amount of time on screens—as a lifeline, respite, or both. We have compiled some excellent suggestions—updated several times since initial publication—for making at least some of that time educational.

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Commentary
2.12.2020
Governance, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

The harm of special education enrollment caps

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

A couple years ago, a high-profile dispute played out between the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the federal Department of Education, with a January 2019 New York Times headline pronouncing,

Commentary
1.17.2020
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Personalized Learning

The top 10 EconTalk episodes on education

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

A few years ago, as I was wrapping up grad school (where my dissertation was about migrant workers in China, of all things), I came across a bunch of fascinating podcast episodes about education policy and school reform.

Commentary
10.8.2019
Curriculum & Instruction, Personalized Learning, Standards

Access, equity, and quality in dual enrollment

Lexi Barrett, Ryan Reyna

Programs that allow high school students the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school are growing fast. In addition to familiar options like Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate, dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and early college high school—otherwise known as college in high school programs–are increasingly popular models in states.

Commentary
10.2.2019
Curriculum & Instruction, High Achievers, Personalized Learning

Advanced coursework gets a needed boost

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Last week in Austin, at the annual “summit” sponsored by the PIE (“Policy Innovators in Education”) Network, prizes were conferred on a handful of state-based education-reform groups that had accomplished remarkable feats in the previous year, this despite the reform-averse mood that chills much of the nation.

Commentary
9.24.2019
Accountability & Testing, ESSA, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

In math, grade-level tests are holding back low-achieving students

Joel Rose

Imagine that you’re a sixth-grade math teacher. It’s the first day of school, and the vast majority of your students arrived multiple years behind where they should be. Your job is to teach them concepts such as understanding percentages and dividing fractions.

Commentary
9.18.2019
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, High Achievers, Personalized Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

Why has AP succeeded when so many other reforms have failed?

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew Scanlan

American K–12 education is awash in reforms, nostrums, interventions, silver bullets, pilot programs, snake oil peddlers, advocates, and crusaders, not to mention innumerable private foundations that occasionally emerge from their endless cycles of strategic planning to unload their latest brainstorms upon the land. Yet when subjected to close scrutiny, not much actually “works.” The six-decade old Advanced Placement program is a rare and welcome exception.

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