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Commentary
9.16.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

School choice is a better instrument for racial justice than critical race theory

Daniel Buck

The outlook has gotten bleak for the anti-racist and CRT movements in U.S. classrooms, as Americans saw these ideas in action and largely recoiled from them. But there's another K–12 strategy for achieving racial justice: school choice.

Commentary
8.27.2021
Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

A bright future for open enrollment

Matthew Ladner

“Hi. Welcome to the future. San Dimas, California. 2688.” Rufus, played by George Carlin, thus opened the American film classic Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure by explaining that, in the distant future, everything is great. The water, air, and even the dirt is clean.

Commentary
8.5.2021
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

“Public education sucks” is a weak argument for school choice

Robert Pondiscio

I’ve long believed the best argument for school choice is to turn up the lights on what is possible when there’s room for a wide variety of schools, curricula, and cultures. Call it the When Harry Met Sally model.

Commentary
8.3.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

Districts are failing special-needs students. School choice is helping.

Ginny Gentles

Public schools have long failed to serve adequately students with disabilities, but school closures, disastrous for the millions of children with special needs, may finally encourage a critical mass of parents to do something about it.

Commentary
7.29.2021
Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice

Biden’s anticompetitive moves on charters and choice

Dale Chu

Earlier this month, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order encouraging federal agencies to undertake a series of initiatives aimed at increasing competition in the U.S. economy. But there’s a mismatch between his approach to competition in the private sector and his support for monopoly when it comes to public education.

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
4.22.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance

How does money matter for schools?

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

The “Does money matter?” debate has been getting boring. The idea that increasing school spending wouldn’t make the schools work at least a little better probably never made much sense to begin with.

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
3.26.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Best- and worst-case scenarios for how school stimulus dollars will be spent

Chad Aldeman

In the last year, Congress has now invested nearly $200 billion to support K–12 education. It’s an unprecedented federal infusion of money, but will it lead to an unprecedented recovery effort? It’s worth taking a moment to pause and consider the range of possibilities. Best case

Commentary
3.25.2021
School Finance, Governance

The stimulus package won’t fix schools’ employee-benefit problem

Brandon L. Wright

Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series that puts the themes of 2020’s Getting the Most Bang for the Education Buck into today’s context, with particular attention to the effects of the pandemic and federal relief dollars.

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.

Commentary
3.18.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A challenging funding future for schools—made worse by the pandemic

Brandon L. Wright

Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series that puts the themes of 2020’s Getting the Most Bang for the Education Buck into today’s context, with particular attention to the effects of the pandemic and federal relief dollars.

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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.