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Commentary
3.4.2016

How well do next-generation tests measure higher-order thinking skills?

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Victoria McDougald

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at the findings and implications of Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments, Fordham’s new first-of-its-kind report.

Undefined
3.2.2016

The Oscars edition

In this week’s podcast, Joel Rose of New Classrooms joins Mike Petrilli to discuss how technology makes “differentiation” doable, non-cognitive skills under ESSA, and the future of Success Academies in New York City. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines how teacher reforms have affected teacher effectiveness.

Commentary
3.2.2016
Charter Schools

The next phase of D.C. reform

If you’re at all interested in Washington, D.C. schools, you should read this excellent report by David Osborne. It serves as a quick and comprehensive history lesson on the city’s last two decades of reform.

Commentary
3.2.2016
Advanced Education

Leaving talent on the table: Fixing gifted education in America

Talk is cheap.For decades, elected officials, education leaders, and others have consumed much oxygen talking about the challenges facing our nation from countries doing a much better job developing their academic talent.Despite this the reality is that we have largely failed to address this concern as many of our most talented children are being overlooked and uncultivated.

Commentary
3.1.2016

Can higher standards survive their own success?

Robert Pondiscio

On the campaign trail, Senator Ted Cruz reliably wins applause with a call to "repeal every word of Common Core." It's a promise he will be hard-pressed to keep should he find himself in the White House next January.

Commentary
2.26.2016

This time it's personal: Round two of Vergara v. California

Kevin Mahnken

If you take an interest in the intersection of American education and law, the news this month has clearly been dominated by one story: The death of Antonin Scalia has transformed the ideological complexion of the Supreme Court during 

Undefined
2.24.2016

The graduate edition

In this week's podcast, Mike Petrilli and Robert Pondiscio discuss the jump in Los Angeles’s high school graduation rate, literacy in the era of ESSA, and why community colleges shouldn’t admit ill-prepared students. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern explains how Louisiana’s scholarship program has affected students.

Commentary
2.24.2016

The promise of rural education collaboratives

Jeff Murray

Rural school districts face many of the same challenges as their urban counterparts: lots of students living in poverty, low college-attainment rates among parents, high and growing numbers of ELL students, and diffi

Commentary
2.24.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

Elementary-grade reading in Tennessee

Robert Pondiscio

Over the past decade, Tennessee has seen steady growth in math, science, and social studies scores. Those gains have been accompanied, as in many states, by rising high school graduation rates. But all is not well in the Volunteer State.

Commentary
2.24.2016

The shifting value of a college degree

Kevin Mahnken

Los Angeles is our country’s Mecca for magic and transformation. It’s where long-extinct dinosaurs come alive, marionettes turn into real boys, and Ryan Reynolds gets chance after chance to anchor film fran