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Podcast
6.10.2020
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction

The Education Gadfly Show: School districts failed the remote learning test

On this week’s podcast, Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, talks with Mike Petrilli and David Griffith about how well school districts handled remote learning this spring. On the Research Minute, Olivia Piontek joins Mike and David to examine how data on how academic growth affects parents’ perception of school quality.

Commentary
6.8.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Teaching and learning from home must continue to be an option for educators and families. Here’s how states can help.

Michael J. Petrilli

All over the country, states, districts and task forces of every sort are wrestling with the question of how to safely reopen schools. This scenario planning is daunting, as schools must navigate a minefield of health, safety, legal, and instructional issues, and do so blindfolded by ever-changing and imperfect understanding of the virus itself.

Commentary
6.3.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

With his remarks on the murder of George Floyd, Joe Biden showed us how to teach empathy and American history

Michael J. Petrilli

America’s schools could learn a lot about how to handle two hot-button issues from Joe Biden’s comments in response to George Floyd’s horrific murder: how to model and cultivate empathy for our fellow citizens, and how to teach an inclusive version of history. He carved a middle path between right and left that is anything but the mushy middle.

Commentary
6.3.2020
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

The different ways charter and district schools are doing distance learning

Alice Tsai

The pandemic forced schools across the country to close and institute some form of remote learning, but their methods varied widely. To see just how much, analysts at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center on Reinventing Public Education have been examining how different public school districts and charter school networks have responded.

Commentary
5.28.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

What AP teachers taught us about learning continuity during coronavirus

Stefanie Sanford

The sudden shift to remote learning this spring demanded that schools innovate and adapt with incredible speed. The entire education world is trying to serve millions of suddenly home-bound students, and there’s simply no precedent for a challenge on that scale.

Commentary
5.27.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Half-Time High School may be just what students need

Michael J. Petrilli

The shutdown of America’s high schools has deprived millions of students of rites we previously took for granted. Coursework can be transferred online to some degree, but no virtual environment can replace football games, choir concerts, musicals, and so much more that’s part of the American high school experience.

Commentary
5.27.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Growth trends in social and emotional learning

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

In early 2019, the Aspen Institute released the findings of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. The report concluded that non-academic factors—such as managing emotions, goal setting, empathy, interpersonal relationships, self-regulation, and more—were vital ingredients to boosting academic achievement for all students.

Commentary
5.22.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Seven steps to sending elementary kids back to school and parents back to work

Michael J. Petrilli

All over the country, states, districts, and task forces of every sort are wrestling with the question of how to safely reopen schools. This scenario planning is daunting, as schools must navigate a minefield of health, safety, legal, and instructional issues, and do so blindfolded by our ever-changing yet imperfect understanding of the virus itself.

Commentary
5.20.2020
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

On distance learning, Success Academy once again leads the way

Robert Pondiscio

In the summer of 2013, After New York’s adoption of new, more rigorous testing benchmarks under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, student test scores plummeted around the state, wiping out years of paper gains.

Commentary
5.13.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A conservative agenda for school board members

Michael J. Petrilli, Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Those best positioned to push back against much of the nonsense that courses through our schools are school board members. And those interested in effecting positive change should adopt a three-part agenda: let our schools refocus on preparing children for informed citizenship; restore character, virtue, and morality to the head of the education table; and build an education system that confers dignity, respect, and opportunity upon every youngster.

Commentary
5.13.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Geography: The unloved stepchild of American education

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Many urgent challenges await the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and its governing board (NAGB) in the coming months, including whether the scheduled biennial testing of reading and math in grades four and eight is feasible during the 2020–21 school year.

Commentary
5.13.2020
Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction

The value proposition: On-the-job skills versus bachelor’s degrees

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

A skills gap occurs when the demand for a skilled workforce increases faster than the supply of workers with those skills. As the U.S. economy recovered from the 2008 Great Recession, that gap was evident in many economic sectors.

Commentary
5.12.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Forge emotional connections with students before pursuing lessons online

Elizabeth Mee

Editor’s note: This essay was first published by Ed Source. As Californians adjust to a restricted and socially distant life amid the coronavirus pandemic, each of us is forced to refocus on what is most important in our lives.

Commentary
5.11.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

A self-reflection tool for distance learners

Beth Blaufuss

Editor’s note: This blog post was first published by Partnership Schools.

Commentary
5.8.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Providing teachers with quality materials that they're trained to use is critical as schools prepare for the fall

Amy Cox

The last time I saw my third grade reading students was more than 40 days ago. Like most schools across the country, ours closed its doors as a safety measure to help slow the spread of COVID-19. And like most schools and districts, we faced the challenge of how to ensure our students continued to learn when they could no longer be inside a classroom.

Commentary
4.29.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

On IDEA, Betsy DeVos did the right thing. Some school districts missed an opportunity.

Nathan Levenson

Secretary DeVos has declined to press Congress to waive major provisions of IDEA, the primary federal law governing the education of students with disabilities. This was the right call, and leaves school districts who have been slow to act facing greater challenges and expenses when in-person schooling resumes.

Commentary
4.28.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

3 keys to the reading “road game”

Will Beller

Editor’s note: This blog post was first published by Partnership Schools.

Commentary
4.23.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Charting a course together in K–2 literacy and math

Rachel Etienne, Tori Filler

The world has changed. Our understanding of what matters most is evolving to meet new realities. This is as true in education as anywhere. Since “school as usual” isn’t an option, how can we chart a course forward, particularly for our youngest learners in kindergarten and first and second grades? How can we continue to cultivate the critical foundation for a lifetime of learning?