What "Hamilton" and its 11 Tonys say about grit and privilege
The ten-dollar founding father without a father,Got a lot farther by working a lot harder,
The ten-dollar founding father without a father,Got a lot farther by working a lot harder,
If there were just one thing I could say to fans of open educational resources (OER) and personalized learning, it would be this: “Atomized units of knowledge don’t build anything.” That quote comes from an education reformer who used to teach in a high-powered classical school.
By Kathryn Mullen Upton
We here at Fordham are really jazzed about the potential of high-quality career and technical education (CTE).
By Michael J. Petrilli
By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Brandon L. Wright
Students at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology produce the highest SAT and ACT scores in the nation. All of the students take at least one Advanced Placement exam, with 97 percent of them scoring well enough to receive college credit. But those high scores don’t come without intellectual cost.
A high school diploma is a critical marker in the transition to adulthood that affects labor participation, social mobility, and opportunities for success. The good news is that high school graduation rates reached an all-time high of 82 percent in spring 2014. The overall graduation rate for charter public schools, however, fell short of that number by ten points.
Hillary Clinton is America’s first woman to be a presidential nominee for a major political party. In November, she’ll take on GOP nominee Donald Trump and the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson (and his running mate William Weld). Clinton has been a public figure since 1979, when she became the First Lady of Arkansas, so she has said much about education over the last thirty-seven years. Here are some of her more recent views.
As Flypaper readers know all too well, newly arrived Education Secretary John B. King, Jr., is in hot water with Congress, state governors, and various school reformers.
A first-hand look at another high-performing charter school
This is the third in a series of essays marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of America’s first charter school law.
By Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
With our laser-like focus on American K–12 education (and the even narrower territory of American K–12 reform), it can be easy to forget that good schooling can be found in many forms—and many settings.
By Derrell Bradford
Gary Johnson, the former two-term governor of New Mexico, is the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee.
In my work with hundreds of families, I have observed one common truth: Parents are the experts on their own children, especially when it comes to giftedness. Parents often observe certain characteristics in their children and view them as positive traits—until those same characteristics are regarded negatively in school.
I believe people are generally at their angriest when they feel powerless.It’s one thing to be unhappy with the current state of your life—heck, we’ve all been there. But it’s entirely different when there’s nothing you can do about it. That causes fury.
By Terry Ryan
As I reflected the post written by my friend and colleague Robert Pondiscio this week, and why it hit such
In a thick of a presidential campaign, it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. Education commentators are justifiably curious about the possible schools agenda of a President Trump, Sanders, or Clinton, sometimes to the exclusion of candidates in the down-ballot races.
We look at the results of a recent survey around assessments
Earlier this month, eleven scholars, analysts, and advocates participated in our annual Wonkathon. The challenge we put to them was to find provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act that could be used to expand parental choice.