New York Times opinion columnist David French recently offered a tidy framework for understanding Donald Trump’s political durability: many voters support Trump’s objectives, but reject his methods.
College graduation rates have been steadily increasing among White, Black, and Hispanic populations for the last five decades, although both Black and Hispanic students lag far behind their White counterparts. Additionally, the graduation rates for men in all three groups have been on a much slower growth trajectory than for women.
Is the Indiana state legislature closing a tiny school district for performance reasons…or to reap the benefits of its big e-school money?
As recent college graduates stare down the “AI job apocalypse,” the K–12 education sector gains a golden opportunity to recruit talented new teachers. Smart school and district leaders will take steps to draw the best and brightest graduates into America’s neediest schools.
In Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, Democrats have found two rising stars to carry the banner in this year’s marquee gubernatorial races.
When it comes to handling education issues, voters have consistently placed more confidence in Democrats than Republicans, according to surveys conducted by The Winston Group since 1999.
Since January 7—the day after Donald Trump’s election was certified—and escalating since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its sister agency U.S.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Mike flies solo to reflect on what’s happening across the education reform la
If you had walked into the classrooms at my Rockford, Illinois, elementary school a few years ago, you would have seen something very different from what happens there today. Back then, like many schools, students stayed in their grade-level classrooms throughout the day, and we delivered reading instruction accordingly.
The tension between public education as a civic institution and education as a vehicle for social justice is difficult to resolve. It doesn’t arrive as a policy change. It enters quietly, through teacher training programs, professional development, and curricular “recommendations.”
In an earlier post, I explained why high school teachers need more support to increase reading assignment length. So how might district and school leaders provide this support? Here are four suggestions.
After years of declining voter trust on education, the Democratic party is at a crossroads.
The “college wage premium” is typically defined as the difference between average wages earned by workers with a four-year degree versus those earned by workers with a high school diploma. For decades, the premium for degree completers has been substantial, and remains so today.
Democrats for Education Reform’s shift toward supporting education savings accounts and other private school choice policies has triggered backlash, resignations, and deep divisions among Democrats.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Jon Valant —director of the Brown Center on Education Poli
Graduation at Columbia Secondary, Harlem’s top selective sixth through twelfth grade school, is scheduled for Friday, June 20. Its seniors are taking advantage of their last few weeks on campus to beg District’s 5 Superintendent Dr. Sean Davenport to step in and keep the school they love from being systematically dismantled.
American education policy is littered with hypotheticals. If we allocated even more money, we could improve outcomes. If we found the latest ed-tech gadget, we could unlock individualized learning within a one-size-fits-all system.
On the latest episode of Nat Malkus’s The Report Card podcast, Andy Rotherham and Rick Hess offered a helpful way to think about the present state of federal education policy.
This terrific “working paper” by distinguished AEI demographer Nicholas Eberstadt concludes with a fascinating (and worrying) appraisal of educational performance in China—perhaps no surprise, since he and his team wrote it with support from the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment.
Overall college attendance has declined in recent years, with persistent and widening gaps in access and retention along racial and
A look inside South Korea’s “cram school” culture, where preparation for hyper-competitive college entrance exams now begins in kindergarten.
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Linda Darling-Hammond and Anne Podolsky of t
For many years, the conventional wisdom in education reform circles was that teachers stopped improving after a few years on the job. This brief challenges that notion.
Editor’s note: This story was produced by The 74, a non-profit, independent news organization focused on education in America.
Dr. Amber Northern, Fordham’s longtime research chief, has been tapped to redesign the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education. As she begins this important work, Checker Finn outlines the history of IES, highlighting progress, shortcomings, and the challenges she faces in this new role
Introduced in 2002 as part of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was one of the best ideas in federal education policy—and one of its worst executions in recent memory.
The conservative education watchdog group Defending Education has done important and often brave work exposing ideological overreach in K–12 schools.
