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Report
3.17.2015
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Developing School Leaders: What the U.S. Can Learn from England's Model

Mark Toner

The myriad challenges facing school principals in the United States have been well documented, including limited opportunities for distributed leadership, inadequate training, and a lackluster pipeline for new leaders. Recently, the Fordham Institute teamed up with the London-based Education Foundation to seek a better understanding of England’s recent efforts to revamp school leadership.

Commentary
3.11.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

EdReports.org

Victoria McDougald

A great resource fact-checks textbooks’ “Common Core-aligned” claims. Victoria Sears

Commentary
3.9.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Moral facts and the Common Core

Kathleen Porter-Magee

Just when you thought we’d run out of things to blame on the standards. Kathleen Porter-Magee

Commentary
3.5.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

No time to lose on early reading

Robert Pondiscio

This post has been updated with the full text of "No time to lose on early reading"

Commentary
3.3.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

CPAC's Common Core vaudeville show

Robert Pondiscio

I’d like to see Bobby Jindal use a teleprompter the next time he attacks Common Core. I’d like to be reassured he knows how to read.

Commentary
2.23.2015
Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction

NEW from Fordham: Common Core and America's High-Achieving Students

The Education Gadfly

While the merit and politics of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been much debated and discussed, one topic has been virtually ignored: What do the standards portend for America’s high-ability students?  In a new brief from Fordham, Jonathan Plucker, professor of education at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, provides guidance for districts

Commentary
2.20.2015
Curriculum & Instruction, Standards, Advanced Education

Can gifted education survive the Common Core?

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

Higher standards are no excuse to ditch gifted services. Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

Commentary
2.18.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

The central problem with Jason Riley's argument

Michael J. Petrilli

We at Fordham are big fans of Jason Riley, a Wall Street Journal columnist who just joined the team at the Manhattan Institute.

Commentary
2.4.2015
Curriculum & Instruction

Differentiated to death

David Griffith

It’s the Holy Grail! If only we could figure out what it is. David Griffith

Commentary
1.20.2015
Curriculum & Instruction

Don’t confuse jargon with rigor

Robert Pondiscio

At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter

Commentary
1.15.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Carmen Fariña's war on evidence

Robert Pondiscio

Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.

Commentary
1.7.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

2015: The year of curriculum-based reform?

Robert Pondiscio

Some of ed reform’s leading lights finally see that what kids learn makes a difference. Robert Pondiscio

Commentary
12.19.2014
Curriculum & Instruction, Standards

Petrilli’s Christmas present

Robert Pondiscio

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).

Commentary
12.11.2014
Curriculum & Instruction

The NEA's racial profiling curriculum

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form on the Commentary website.

Commentary
12.3.2014
Curriculum & Instruction

Education and upward mobility

Michael J. Petrilli

College isn’t the only springboard to the middle class. Michael J. Petrilli

Commentary
11.25.2014
Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction

Punishing achievement in our schools

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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.

Commentary
11.25.2014
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Ten rules for teaching reading with prior knowledge

Tim Shanahan

[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.

Commentary
11.24.2014
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Prior knowledge: Can we really level the playing field?

Tim Shanahan

[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.]