The mixed results of San Diego’s college prep policy
Darien WynnBy Darien Wynn
Knowledge needs champions
Harriet Tubman will grace the front of our $20 bill—a long-overdue tribute to a woman who lived up to the best of American values. But do most Americans know who she was?
Failing by design: How we make teaching too hard for mere mortals
Robert PondiscioBy Robert Pondiscio
The next steps for career preparation
Are we ready to expand career and technical education offerings as the next frontier in education policy?
Policy change is not the only path to school reform
Michael J. PetrilliBy Michael J. Petrilli
Using online courses for credit recovery
Robert PondiscioCredit recovery is education’s Faustian pact. We remain not very good at raising most students to respectable standards. But neither can we refuse to graduate boxcar numbers of kids who don’t measure up.
Princeton dealt with its Woodrow Wilson problem perfectly
Kevin MahnkenPrinceton University announced last week that it would preserve the name of Woodrow Wilson on several buildings and programs, though it had plenty of reasons to do otherwise.
Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?
Jamie Davies O'LearyBy Jamie Davies O’Leary
The U.S. workforce lags behind its international counterparts
Darien WynnBy Darien Wynn
"Culturally relevant pedagogy" limits minority students
It should be great news: Graduation rates for Minnesota’s black and Hispanic students—which have long lagged the rate for white students—are on the rise.But how much do these new graduates actually know? What skills have they mastered? In other words, what is their high school diploma really worth?
How tracking can raise the test scores of high-ability minority students
David GriffithBy David Griffith
The 2016 Brown Center report on education: How well are American students learning?
Robert PondiscioBy Robert Pondiscio
Evaluating the four-year scale-up of Reading Recovery
Robert PondiscioBy Robert Pondiscio
Children, be quiet and watch your lesson
Michael J. PetrilliBy Michael J. Petrilli
Building a better (community) college student through remediation
Jeff MurrayBy Jeff Murray
High-potential students thrive when school districts develop sustainable gifted services
The goal of gifted programs should reflect that of any other educational program: to engage students with appropriately challenging curricula and instruction on a daily basis and in all relevant content areas so that they can make continual academic growth.
Elementary-grade reading in Tennessee
Robert PondiscioOver the past decade, Tennessee has seen steady growth in math, science, and social studies scores. Those gains have been accompanied, as in many states, by rising high school graduation rates. But all is not well in the Volunteer State.
Advocating for high-achievers
Brandon L. WrightThanks to No Child Left Behind and its antecedents, American education has focused in recent decades on ensuring that all children, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds, attain a minimum level of academic achievement.
A culturally rich curriculum can improve minority student achievement
Audrey KimFor some, the ivory tower of academia is “ivory” in more ways than one.
The Grammy edition
In this week's podcast, Robert Pondiscio and Brandon Wright laud the progress of education policies since NCLB, weigh gentrification’s role in D.C.’s achievement gains, and discuss the controversy surrounding a Success Academies video. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines educators’ perspectives on Common Core implementation.
Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments
Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments examines previously unreleased items from three multi-state tests (ACT Aspire, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced) and one best-in-class state assessment, Massachusetts’ state exam (MCAS). The product of two years of work by the Thomas B.
Don't blame Common Core for publishers' lousy textbooks
Kevin MahnkenIf you’ve been keeping up with the Common Core scandal pages, you may be wondering who Dianne Barrow is.
NAEP computer-based writing pilot assessment: Fourth-grade performance
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.A new study from the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences provides results for fourth-grade students on the 2012 NAEP pilot computer-based writing assessment. The study asks whether fourth graders can fully demonstrate their writing ability on a computer and what factors are related to their writing performance on said computers.
The Bush education plan
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Education reform has been a specialty of Jeb Bush’s, and his track record on this issue in Florida is unbeatable. He knows the topic up, down, and sideways.
Ten things every American should know
Robert PondiscioNearly thirty years ago, a then-obscure University of Virginia professor named E.D. Hirsch, Jr. set off a hot national debate with the publication of Cultural Literacy.