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Teacher strike
Commentary
11.21.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The causes of teacher strikes and their impacts on student outcomes

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

A new working paper by an accomplished team of researchers uses a new dataset to dive deep into the dynamics and impacts of teacher strikes. This paper provides a fresh perspective on why these strikes happen, how they influence school districts, and their broader implications on education policy and student achievement.

Teacher strike
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Commentary
11.21.2024

What we're reading this week: November 21, 2024

The Education Gadfly

A partial defense of Lucy Calkins and her role in America’s reading crisis. —Helen Lewis, The Atlantic Despite efforts to diversify, Harvard still admits a disproportionate number of students from a small number of affluent and/or highly-selective high.

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Cornucopia
Commentary
11.20.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education

A cornucopia of advanced learning reports to spice up your Thanksgiving

Jonathan Plucker

After an eventful year of politics and controversy—with more lurking on the horizon—several friends have shared their apprehension about holiday gatherings. No one wants to see Grandma serve the turkey wearing her red hat or Uncle Bob stick a “We’re not going back” flag in the cranberry sauce.

Cornucopia
Silver lining clouds
Commentary
11.14.2024
Governance

A silver lining for blue state education reform?

Michael J. Petrilli

Trump 2.0 is likely to be bad for education reform, especially in blue states, says Petrilli. But that take could prove too pessimistic. Perhaps the rightward shift in some of the bluest parts of America will encourage Democrats to fight for the center again, including by embracing sensible education reforms. Let’s give this possibility a hearing.

Silver lining clouds
Advanced education classroom
Commentary
11.14.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

How schools can support equitable advanced education

Dina Brulles

In the Fordham Institute policy report titled Think Again: Are Education Programs for High-Achievers Inherently Inequitable?, Brandon Wright outlines four claims describing arguments that opponents of advanced education programs use to advocate for their

Advanced education classroom
Teenagers raising hands in a classroom
Commentary
11.14.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education

The longer-term impacts of early-college high schools

Jeff Murray

Early-college high schools are those that fully incorporate college course-taking into the curriculum. They are not to be confused with a more-typical “dual enrollment” model, which allows students the opportunity to take college courses if they have time.

Teenagers raising hands in a classroom
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Commentary
11.14.2024

What we're reading this week: November 14, 2024

The Education Gadfly

Betsy DeVos expresses interest in returning to the secretary of education role while discussing the president-elect’s plans for education in his second term.

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Catholic school
Commentary
11.7.2024
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Governance, Private School Choice

How to ensure accountability in private-school choice programs

Michael J. Petrilli, Devon Nir

Yes, choice itself is a form of accountability, but “customer satisfaction” isn’t enough when tax dollars are in play—even for private-school choice programs. The public has a right to know that participating students are gaining essential skills. To that end, this post discusses four tiers of escalating accountability and where state policy should land, depending on the amount of taxpayer dollars provided to individual schools, among other considerations.

Catholic school
Students in a classroom
Commentary
11.7.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

Advanced education provides benefits that differentiated instruction can’t

Brandon L. Wright

Editor’s note: This is an adapted excerpt from the author’s recent Fordham Institute report, “Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable?”

Students in a classroom
Teacher speaking to students
Commentary
11.7.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

How teachers can build knowledge

Daniel Buck

Almost forty years ago, E.D. Hirsch published his seminal book, Cultural Literacy, which advanced a simple, albeit paradigm-shifting, premise: Intellectual aptitudes—including literacy itself—depend on knowledge more than skills.

Teacher speaking to students
Happy student in school
Commentary
11.7.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

How some schools help students get back to grade level

Heena Kuwayama

According to estimates by principals nationwide, about 44 percent of American public-school students were behind grade level in a least one subject at the start of the 2023–24 school year.

Happy student in school
Fordham Gadfly image
Commentary
11.7.2024

What we're reading this week: November 7, 2024

The Education Gadfly

New research shows that an endorsement from a local teachers’ union can boost a school board candidate’s likelihood of winning by up to 20 percentage points, due in large part to the popular belief that teacher approval signals competence in improving schools.

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Empty classroom
Commentary
11.1.2024
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

We’re living through an education depression

Tim Daly

In 1990, 48 percent of our nation’s eighth graders had very weak math skills. How did we know? They scored in the lowest performance category, Below Basic, on the national test given to a sample of American students every two years.[1]

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Kamala Harris
Commentary
10.31.2024
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A Republican education secretary for Kamala Harris’s cabinet?

Dale Chu

It is rare, but not unheard of, for presidents to ask members of the opposing party to serve in their cabinets. If she wins, Vice President Harris has pledged to make the symbolic gesture, historically used at key moments to project unity and bipartisanship. There’s a compelling argument to be made that the post of Education Secretary would be a worthy target for such an act. Here Chu discusses seven candidates for the role.

Kamala Harris
Voting location sign
Commentary
10.31.2024
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

20 questions for school board candidates

Michael J. Petrilli

Election Day is almost here, and the presidential contest is not the only one that matters.

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Bothered school student in a classroom
Commentary
10.31.2024
Teachers & School Leaders

How should teachers cover the election? They shouldn’t.

Daniel Buck

I student-taught during the Republican primary of 2016. One afternoon, I watched my mentor teacher, an avowed socialist, berate a student during class for daring to express support for Donald Trump. After the election, many of my colleagues breathed nihilistic tirades to their charges about the hopelessness of our country.

Bothered school student in a classroom
Preschool classroom
Commentary
10.31.2024
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance

The return on investment of pre-kindergarten programming: Evidence from Connecticut

Jeff Murray

The academic impacts of pre-kindergarten programming for children are a matter of unsettled science, with some research finding a positive impact, some a negative, and much showing the fade out of all impacts by third grade or soon thereafter.

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