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Commentary
8.24.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction

Long term outcomes of a home- and community-based literacy program

Jeff Murray

Future Forward began in Milwaukee in 2005 as SPARK—a small-scale, local effort to combine family engagement with intensive tutoring to help low-income elementary-age students improve their literacy skills. It has since expanded significantly, rebranded, and moved under the aegis of national nonprofit Education Analytics, Inc.

Commentary
8.17.2023
Curriculum & Instruction

Why AI hasn’t made coding skills obsolete

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

Many states now require high school students to learn coding before they can graduate, and a host of organizations encourage students to build coding skills. Is this all a waste of time and energy now that chatbots can code? In a word, no.

Commentary
8.17.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Stop using learning stations

Daniel Buck

Can we stop with the learning stations already? My teacher prep endorsed them. My first instructional coach trained me in them. Every school that I’ve ever worked at has incorporated them. Look them up on Teachers Pay Teachers and you’ll find scores of activities for various literacy stations, each one promising that they are proven effective.

Commentary
8.17.2023

Rethinking gifted coverage in the media

Michael J. Petrilli

High-achieving students who are also disadvantaged by class, race, or ethnicity may be the most overlooked group in American education. Education reporters, ask yourself: The last time you visited a high-poverty elementary school, did you query the principal or teachers about how they serve children who are a year or more above grade level?

Commentary
8.17.2023

What we're reading this week: August 17, 2023

The Education Gadfly

Researchers found that a Florida retention policy that increased resources and support for retained students had spillover benefits for younger siblings.

Commentary
8.10.2023
Curriculum & Instruction

Hard lessons from a veteran homeschooler

Larissa Phillips

In the last three years, the families of 1.8 million children switched to homeschooling, bringing the nationwide total to 4.3 million in 2022. But glib calls for parents to join those ranks gloss over some persistent challenges inherent in homeschooling. Phillips discovered these challenges firsthand when her family moved to rural upstate New York and began homeschooling their kids.

Commentary
8.10.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Mike Schmoker’s achievable vision for education reform

Daniel Buck

I must admit, I’d become something of an education fatalist. I know the research about direct instruction. I know the power of a knowledge-rich, well-sequenced curriculum and the promise of school choice. I know that individual schools and even whole charter systems can achieve amazing results. But I always wonder: Is it all for naught?

Commentary
8.10.2023
Curriculum & Instruction

Learning by going: Springfield, Illinois

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

After a millennium or so in the world of ed policy, I nearly always think of education as stuff schools do that produces results on various metrics that (one hopes) enables education leaders and policymakers to make better decisions about what schools should do tomorrow.

Commentary
8.4.2023
Advanced Education

Screen time during the pandemic and twice-exceptional children: What parents should know

Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D.

The use of screens increased substantially during the Covid-19 pandemic. For the twice exceptional population—those identified as gifted with coexistent learning differences like ADHD, dyslexia, Autism, or processing disorders—this “epidemic within the pandemic” resulted in deeper isolation and greater parent frustration.

Commentary
8.3.2023
School Finance, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Fair funding finally flows to charters—but the window won’t stay open forever

Michael J. Petrilli

A remarkable increase in charter school funding across a number of states—and not just red—is finally addressing some of the deepest spending inequities in American education. But with Covid money drying up, declining student enrollment, and an aging population, tougher times lie ahead.

Commentary
8.3.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Standards

Virginia leads the way on conservative education reform

Daniel Buck

Not since former Governor Scott Walker bludgeoned the unions in my home state of Wisconsin has there been such national outrage over state-level education policies. Historically, state-scale education has been a secondary affair, rarely topping the list of people’s substantive or political priorities, and most decisions have been left to local decision-making.

Commentary
8.3.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance

Mississippi didn’t cheat. Its reading gains are real.

Todd Collins

Is Mississippi a cheater? Los Angeles Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik seems sure of it. Last month, the Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion writer published a column saying that Mississippi’s widely acclaimed reading improvement was just a mirage.

Commentary
8.3.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Assessing the operations and impacts of Teach For America in Indianapolis

Jeff Murray

The Indianapolis branch of Teach For America (TFA Indy) was established in 2008, expanding the national organization’s mission—to build and deploy a corps of high-quality education leaders to support high-needs students—into the Hoosier State.

Commentary
8.3.2023

Cheers and Jeers: August 3, 2023

The Education Gadfly

Cheers The College Board held its first annual AP conference since the pandemic and shared strategies for how to make Advanced Placement courses accessible to all. —Ed Week Jeers

Commentary
8.3.2023

What we're reading this week: August 3, 2023

The Education Gadfly

Contrary to popular belief, the SAT is indeed a good predictor of college success, but bad statistical analysis perpetuates the myth that it doesn’t.

Commentary
7.27.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance

The college-going rate is down. Here’s hoping it falls even further.

Michael J. Petrilli

One of the biggest shifts in education in recent years has been a gradual move away from the “college for all” mantra, and hard numbers show a concurrent decline in the proportion of high school students matriculating directly to college. Far from something to deplore, this trend is a positive development—but only so long as the right teenagers are choosing to enter the labor market rather than pursue college.

Commentary
7.27.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

It’s time to dump Reading Recovery

Aaron Churchill

This month, Ohio joined a growing list of states and school systems that require schools to use high-quality instructional materials aligned to the science of reading, an approach to reading instruction that emphasizes

Commentary
7.27.2023
Governance

Open enrollment might save suburban schools, not destroy them

Garion Frankel

Stand Up Blue Valley is a pro-public-education parents’ association in Overland Park, Kansas (a large suburb of Kansas City) with a reputation for milquetoast advocacy promoting local control, informed voting, and opposition to school choice.

Commentary
7.27.2023

What we're reading this week: July 27, 2023

The Education Gadfly

Rick Hess interviews Virginia school board member Andrew Rotherham on the state’s adoption of new social studies and history standards.

Commentary
7.24.2023
Advanced Education

How to ensure twice-exceptional students don't slip through the cracks

Adam Laningham, Sarah Holman

Imagine the course of history if some of the most brilliant minds were held back by learning disabilities. Albert Einstein was dyslexic and didn’t talk until he was six. His teachers said nothing good would come of him.