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Commentary
10.16.2023
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Wonkathon 2023: How can we harness the power but mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence in our schools?

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

As in years past, we’ll encourage our audience to vote for the “wisest wonk.” If you’re keen to jump in—and we hope you are—please let us know and indicate when we can expect your draft. We will publish submissions on a rolling basis, so send yours as soon as practical but no later than Monday, November 6. Aim for 800 to 1200 words.

Commentary
10.12.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Don’t mess with Texas school reform

Dale Chu

Texas legislators returned to Austin earlier this week to try once again to enact a statewide school-choice program in the form of edu

Commentary
10.12.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

There’s no Republican or Democrat way to teach reading

Robert Pondiscio

There are forty-four phonemes that make up every word in the English language. Some of these small units of sound occur more frequently than others, but none can be dispensed with entirely when teaching children to sound out words and read with fluency—not even the phoneme /d/ as in “Democrat” or /r/ as in “Republican.”

Commentary
10.12.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

How good are teachers at spotting advanced students?

Kate Kerin

Many school districts use teacher rating scales to identify students for advanced (i.e., gifted) programming, such as supplementary instruction and separate classes or schools.

Commentary
10.5.2023
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

AI is a serious threat to student privacy

Daniel Buck

The bulk of commentary and school district policy relating to AI and education focuses almost exclusively on questions regarding cheating and whether it still makes sense to teach kids to write. But there are other risks of the tech and thorny questions looming on the horizon that are worryingly overlooked. Student privacy is perhaps chief among them.

Commentary
10.5.2023

Remembering Emerson Elliott

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

When Emerson Elliott passed away the other day at eighty-nine, surrounded by his loving four-generation family, one might simply say adieu and thanks to a capable and dedicated career federal civil servant—which he surely was.

Commentary
10.5.2023
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Can a licensure test accurately assess CTE teacher competency?

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

There is plentiful research suggesting that, among in-school factors, teachers consistently matter the most when it comes to student testing outcomes.

Commentary
10.3.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education

One cheer for New York City’s efforts on advanced education

Brandon L. Wright, Daniel Buck

When former mayor Bill de Blasio promised to dismantle New York City’s gifted education programs, then-candidate Eric Adams laudably promised to save, reform and expand them.  Since taking the helm, howev

Report
9.29.2023

A Generation at Risk: A Call to Action

The Building Bridges Initiative

The signatories of A Generation at Risk—a diverse group of leaders from left, right, and center—seek bold action to quickly and dramatically improve the learning opportunities for today’s students, while we simultaneously begin putting in place the building blocks of a more responsive system that will help future generations of students address the challenges of the world to come.

Commentary
9.28.2023
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

ChatGPT hasn’t killed the academic essay

Daniel Buck

An academic essay is an end in itself. It teaches, among other things, control of language, how to organize thoughts and structure them such that a reader can easily follow them, how to state an argument clearly upfront, how to hook a reader’s interest, and how to conclude in a concise, powerful way. AI will not change this.

Commentary
9.28.2023
Teachers & School Leaders

Parents and schools need a reset

Ryan Hooper

Tensions between parents and educators are at an all-time high. Differences in opinion about education are not new, and they certainly do not have to lead to a corrosion of trust. Yet that is exactly what has happened, and both groups shoulder blame—as does the media.

Commentary
9.28.2023
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders

Students’ ignorance of U.S. history and civics remains a national embarrassment

Robert Pondiscio

A new study from a pair of Penn State University researchers finds that passing the U.S. Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the last decade, more than a third of U.S.

Commentary
9.28.2023
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Governance

Later-life impacts of school accountability

Jeff Murray

There is no shortage of research into the impacts of school and district accountability systems on education-related student outcomes.

elementary student
Commentary
9.21.2023
Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Chronic absenteeism has become a crisis, part 3: Solutions

Tim Daly

Part one of this series explored many possible explanations for the rise in absenteeism. They come in all shapes and sizes, some more plausible than others. Part two unpacks how this issue plays out in cities and suburbs—and what stands out most is how kids are missing school everywhere. This final post offers five solutions.

elementary student
Commentary
9.21.2023
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Public charter schools and the Chipotlification of education

Christy Wolfe

Before Chipotle ushered in the phenomenon of being able to “have it your way,” the customization of a fast casual meal was relegated to condiments, not the entire entree.

Commentary
9.21.2023
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Teachers & School Leaders

In the wake of the pandemic, time is of the essence for high school students

Victoria McDougald

A new report released last week by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) explores the pandemic’s impact on America’s oldest students—those in high school and the 13.5 million who recently graduated.

Commentary
9.21.2023

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

The Education Gadfly

The pandemic set Americans back not just in education, but in crime and mortality rates as well. —David Wallace Wells Schools spend billions of dollars on training on topics such as DEI and culturally-relevant pedagogy, but have no insight into whether or not it works.