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Commentary
8.12.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The vast majority of parents want schools to teach children social and emotional skills

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Michael J. Petrilli

The biggest takeaway of our new report, "How to Sell SEL," is that most moms and dads want their children to acquire social and emotional skills and think that schools have a role in making that happen, even as they recognize the key role that they and other family members play. Read more.

Commentary
8.12.2021
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Can changing our eduspeak help with post-pandemic schooling?

Dale Chu

The radio show Marketplace recently ran a piece asking, “Can changing home appraisal language help close the wealth gap?” The story examined structural racism in the housing market, specifically the wealth gap that persists as a result of Black and Hispanic families having t

Commentary
8.12.2021

What we're reading this week: August 12, 2021

The Education Gadfly

The data from North Carolina schools shows that in-person learning is more effective—and can be safe with masking and vaccination, regardless of community infection rates.

Report
8.11.2021
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

How to Sell SEL: Parents and the Politics of Social-Emotional Learning

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

This report examines parents’ opinions on SEL and pitfalls in communicating about it. It finds overwhelming support for the essence of SEL and its place in schools, but differences by political party and challenges in getting the terminology right.

Commentary
8.5.2021
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

“Public education sucks” is a weak argument for school choice

Robert Pondiscio

I’ve long believed the best argument for school choice is to turn up the lights on what is possible when there’s room for a wide variety of schools, curricula, and cultures. Call it the When Harry Met Sally model.

Commentary
8.5.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Groundhog Day for school discipline

David Griffith, Ph.D.

On June 4, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights asked for information that would help it “support schools in addressing disparities and eliminating discrimination in school discipline and fostering positive and inclusive school climates,” suggesting that something resembling the Obama-era discipline guidance may be reinstated in the near future.

Commentary
8.5.2021
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The case for partisan school board elections

Aaron Churchill

This November, Americans will cast their votes in thousands of local school board races. The stakes couldn’t be higher. These governing bodies will decide how public schools handle hot-button issues like masking requirements and critical race theory.

Commentary
8.5.2021
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Busting the belief gap via regular student assessment

Jeff Murray

At its simplest, the belief gap is the gulf between what students can accomplish and what others—particularly teachers—believe they can achieve. It is especially pernicious when beliefs around academic competency are fueled by extraneous information such as socioeconomic status, race, or gender.

Commentary
8.5.2021
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Five ideas for recruiting and retaining more Black and Hispanic teachers

William Rost

Because of how Covid-19 has devastated the U.S. education system, many see this time as a unique opportunity to galvanize state and local education systems to enact large-scale changes. Bellwether Education Partners believes that one such transformation should be how state and local education agencies recruit and retain Black and Hispanic teachers.

Commentary
8.5.2021

What we're reading this week: August 5, 2021

There’s a broad “coalition of the pissed-off” rising in many cities that’s recalling school board members for pursuing political agendas instead of student needs. It’s likely to shape this election cycle.

Commentary
8.3.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Charter Schools, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

Districts are failing special-needs students. School choice is helping.

Ginny Gentles

Public schools have long failed to serve adequately students with disabilities, but school closures, disastrous for the millions of children with special needs, may finally encourage a critical mass of parents to do something about it.

Commentary
8.3.2021
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Remote instruction is to blame for plummeting test scores

Nat Malkus

Texas recently became the first state to release state test score data since the pandemic hit.

Commentary
7.29.2021
Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice

Biden’s anticompetitive moves on charters and choice

Dale Chu

Earlier this month, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order encouraging federal agencies to undertake a series of initiatives aimed at increasing competition in the U.S. economy. But there’s a mismatch between his approach to competition in the private sector and his support for monopoly when it comes to public education.

Commentary
7.29.2021
Accountability & Testing, Evidence-Based Learning, Governance

2.7 cheers for the NAEP Reading Framework

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Gadfly habitues have seen me grump, criticize, lament and recently brighten over the protract

Commentary
7.29.2021
Charter Schools, Teachers & School Leaders

Charter school teachers are teachers, too

Henry Seton

I was excited to meet a fellow high school teacher at a neighborhood potluck, but when she found out I worked at a charter school, she immediately said, “I don’t support charter schools.”

Commentary
7.29.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

How do suspensions affect classroom learning?

Jeremy Smith

A recent study in the journal Education Finance and Policy uses quarterly achievement and discipline data on nearly 16,000 seventh through eleventh grade students in an inner-ring suburban California school district to estimate the effect of suspensions on the English language arts and math achievement of non-suspended classmates.

Commentary
7.29.2021

What we're reading this week: July 29, 2021

The Education Gadfly

Americans used to flock to California to find opportunity, but now residents are leaving the state. It must reform its education system, especially by empowering parents and expanding choice for disadvantaged students, to keep the California Dream alive.

Commentary
7.22.2021
Charter Schools, Advanced Education, Teachers & School Leaders

Boston is punishing its Asian American community for its educational success

Brandon L. Wright

Boston just approved sweeping changes to the process by which students are admitted to its three highly-sought exam schools. The idea was to free up more seats for disadvantaged children, some of whom have long been underrepresented at the institutions. Yet in one important aspect, the plan may do exactly the opposite: It’s likely to significantly reduce the number of seats that go to low-income Asian American students.