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Commentary
1.19.2024
Facilities, School Finance, Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

High schools where students routinely graduate with college degrees: An interview with Kevin Teasley, CEO of GEO Academies

Brandon L. Wright

Khaya Njumbe enrolled at GEO Academies’ 21st Century Charter School, in Gary, Indiana, when he was eleven years old. By age thirteen, he’d become the youngest student in state history to earn an associate degree.

Teacher speaking to a student
Commentary
1.18.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Doing educational equity right: School discipline

Michael J. Petrilli

If school funding is the issue around which it’s easiest to find common ground across left and right, school discipline might be the hardest. That shouldn’t be surprising, given how divisive our country’s debate has been on the related issue of criminal justice and law enforcement. But we can begin to bridge these ideological differences if we commit to “doing educational equity right.”

Teacher speaking to a student
Commentary
1.18.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Teachers are fed up with no-consequence discipline

Daniel Buck

I used to judge teachers who quit midyear. How could they abandon their students? Didn’t they sign a contract? Could they just really not cut it? Well, now I get it. Midyear quitting may be unseemly, but it’s understandable.

Commentary
1.16.2024
Career & Technical Education, Governance

Congress’s bipartisan progress on strengthening America’s workforce

Bruno V. Manno

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce ended 2023 with some tidings of potential joy for America’s workforce by approving two proposed bills on a strong bipartisan basis. Committee approval in one chamber is just a start, of course, but bipartisanship in the current House is a good sign.

Finland
Commentary
1.12.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The rise and fall of Finland mania

Tim Daly

Editor's note: This was first published on the author's Substack, The Education Daly.

Finland
Piggy bank and chalkboard
Commentary
1.11.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Governance

Doing educational equity right: School finance

Michael J. Petrilli

Last week, Petrilli identified three rules for “doing educational equity right” that will result in smart policy designs and make it likelier that the political right will get on board the equity train. Now let’s apply those rules to the topic of school finance.

Piggy bank and chalkboard
Commentary
1.11.2024
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

How to ban phones effectively

Daniel Buck

Shortly before schools—and Fordham—shuttered their doors for the holiday break, Tim Daly asked a simple question in these pages: Should schools ban smart phones?

Commentary
1.11.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Alternative classroom models don’t have to threaten “traditional” ones

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D., Jeanette Luna

As former teachers in a variety of settings—charter, traditional public, and “transfer” schools—we read with great interest our colleague Daniel Buck’s recent piece, “In defense of the traditional classroom

Commentary
1.11.2024

What we're reading this week: January 11, 2024

The Education Gadfly

Thousands of schools across the country, including schools in Mississippi, Baltimore, Boston, and other jurisdictions, are at risk of closing because of declining enrollment.

Commentary
1.5.2024
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Remembering Linda Brown

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

The education world lost a true reformer on Christmas Day—and the charter-school world lost one of its true heroes—when Linda Brown passed away at eighty-one at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Commentary
1.4.2024
Governance, Advanced Education

3 rules for doing educational equity right

Michael J. Petrilli

“Suitcase words” have different meanings for different people. They’re everywhere in our political conversations and in K–12 education, and they include “social justice,” “parental rights,” and “accountability.” But the granddaddy of them all is surely “educational equity.” In coming weeks, this series will aim to unpack this phrase, and discuss what it would mean to do educational equity right.

Group of students in a classroom
Commentary
1.4.2024
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

When school becomes optional

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

“Truancy” may no longer be the right word for it, maybe not even “absenteeism,” for both imply being missing from a place where one is supposed to be. “Truancy,” with its overtone of misbehavior and illegality, suggests willfulness, i.e., that one is intentionally missing, while “absenteeism” is a more neutral term with no suggestion of motive.

Commentary
1.4.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance

How centralized enrollment systems enhance school choice

Jeff Murray

A new report from the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice adds to the robust literature on school choice in New Orleans, shedding light on the ways in which the centralized enrollment system in the Crescent City has grown and evolved, as well a

Commentary
1.4.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

How pandemic-era emergency teaching licenses diversified the teaching profession

Kate Kerin

The Covid-19 pandemic created innumerable disruptions to the education system. Among them were challenges faced by teacher candidates trying to complete licensure requirements. In response, those requirements got waived in many places.

Commentary
1.4.2024

What we're reading this week: January 4, 2024

The Education Gadfly

After a year spent campaigning for the issue, deal cutting, and threats of primary challenges, Greg Abbott failed to pass school choice legislation.

Commentary
12.21.2023

The best and worst of education reform in 2023

Michael J. Petrilli

Every week in the Education Gadfly, we flag a handful of news items for our “Cheers and Jeers” section. Here are the ten most fantastic or horrendous developments of the year that was, presented in chronological order. Best

Commentary
12.21.2023

15 of the best opinion pieces on education reform that we read in 2023

Michael J. Petrilli

Every week in the Education Gadfly, we flag a handful of articles in our “What We’re Reading” section. Mostly these are opinion pieces, usually from leading newspapers and magazines, or occasionally high-profile Substacks. Here’s our list of our favorites for the year, presented in chronological order.

Commentary
12.21.2023

What we're reading this week: December 21, 2023

The Education Gadfly

A new Rand Corporation survey finds that roughly three in ten teachers thinks that their school’s curriculum is too difficult for students. —Education Week