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Commentary
12.2.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

Attacking gifted education is bad policy and bad politics

Brandon L. Wright

Education for high achievers has come under siege in blue cities and states as the national focus has shifted to racial equity in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. But such attacks, even when well-intentioned, are misguided. They target a problem’s symptom rather than its cause, and in doing so, harm students and defy parents.

Commentary
12.2.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Teaching gratitude beyond Thanksgiving

Jennifer Frey

Once a year, parents of young children can look forward to their kids coming home from school with turkeys drawn by hand and heartwarming lists of what they are grateful for, with loving parents and helpful teachers usually at the top of the list. This happens just before families pack up and travel to be together and give thanks for all the blessings of the year.

Commentary
12.2.2021
Career & Technical Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Redesigning early college credit to reach underserved students

Jeff Murray

In 2012, Tennessee lawmakers created the Statewide Dual-Credit program (SDC) to help more students earn college credit while completing high school.

Commentary
12.2.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The state of computer science education

Jessica Poiner

In early November, the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance teamed up to release the 2021 State of Computer Science Education.

Commentary
12.2.2021

Cheers and Jeers: December 2, 2021

The Education Gadfly

Cheers Now more than ever, we need standardized tests to hold schools accountable. —Conor Williams “Tennessee goes all in on tutoring with $200m statewide program.” —The 74 Jeers

Commentary
12.2.2021

What we're reading this week: December 2, 2021

The Education Gadfly

“GOP resistance to preschool plan could imperil key Biden proposal in many states.” —Washington Post Two studies find that California’s education funding formula isn’t meeting its goal of improving achievement for underperforming student groups.

Commentary
11.24.2021

What we're reading this week: November 24, 2021

Though surveys showed that many teachers considered leaving the classroom in recent years, and some predicted nationwide teacher shortages, the data show that teachers are sticking it out. —FiveThirtyEight “Can public money go to religious schools?

Commentary
11.18.2021
Teachers & School Leaders

Teacher mental health days demonstrate districts’ priorities—and it’s not the students

Dale Chu

America’s children are way behind because of the pandemic. And knowing this, parents and guardians have been justifiably expecting schools to rise to the occasion this fall. Instead, districts across the country have been shuttering this month following a wave of unexpected staff shortages. This is unequivocally a bad thing, but one that may have a silver lining: It helps increase momentum for school choice.

Commentary
11.18.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

What is virtue and why does it matter?

Jennifer Frey

Contemporary education has become too technocratic and divorced from virtue. This is a disservice to students because it robs them of what a classical education provides: the tools students need to succeed, not just academically and professionally, but in the deep and abiding sense of being able to flourish as free and good human beings.

Commentary
11.18.2021

What we're reading this week: November 18, 2021

The Education Gadfly

Education reporting needs to cast off the scarcity mindset and misleading headlines about school finance. —Chad Aldeman Religious groups are lobbying to change Biden’s childcare bill, as it might disqualify faith-based care providers from accessing funds.

Commentary
11.12.2021
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Communicating the “learning” in social-emotional learning

Sheldon Berman, Linda Darling-Hammond

Editor’s post: This post was originally published on November 8, 2021, by the Learning Policy Institute as part of its “Educating the Whole Child“ blog series.

Commentary
11.11.2021

Now it’s the GOP’s turn to mess up the critical race theory issue

Michael J. Petrilli

Last week’s elections were a turning point in the fraught debate over how race and racism are taught in America’s schools. Democrats failed a major test in contending that CRT is absent from our public schools, rather than listening to parents’ concerns. Yet they may take hope from Republicans already messing up this issue in the form of blatant overreach.

Commentary
11.11.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

How media coverage of critical race theory misses the point

Robert Pondiscio

It is not a controversial statement to say that the debate over critical race theory in schools has shed more heat than light. This is not surprising. When a relatively obscure and arcane academic field suddenly becomes a high-profile political football, hotly debated on cable news shoutfests, it is almost certainly because it has been reduced to bumper-sticker simplicity.

Commentary
11.11.2021
Accountability & Testing, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Would eliminating college admissions tests really make education more equitable?

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

When the University of California began phasing-out college admissions test scores as part of a recent legal settlement, the rationale was “equity.” Lawyers for the students who brought the lawsuit said that “SAT and ACT scores are largely a proxy for a student’s socioeconomic background and race,” rather than measures of ac

Commentary
11.11.2021

What we're reading this week: November 11, 2021

The Education Gadfly

“Education finance guru Marguerite Roza on how schools can best spend Covid aid.” —Education Week With recent elections elevating the voice of suburban parents and the conversation on critical race theory, what will the future of education p

Commentary
11.4.2021
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

2021 election recap: How four key school board races shook out

Dale Chu

While the gubernatorial upset in Virginia drew the brightest spotlight, Tuesday’s election featured an unusual surge in the number of school board candidates vying for thousands of seats all over the country. Four races were especially noteworthy, both for the charged political rancor leading up to November 2, as well as the potentially broader implications from the results.