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Commentary
6.5.2020
Teachers & School Leaders

Teachers, consider superintendency. You could transform even more student lives.

Tran Le

As protests against racism and police brutality erupt across the nation—during a worldwide pandemic, no less—Americans are coming to face the harsh reality that life as they previously knew it is no more. Until there’s a vaccine, the “normal” that was pre-Covid-19 can never be again, and the “normal” that was pre-George Floyd must never be again.

Commentary
6.4.2020

Where justice, education, and faith intersect

Stephanie Saroki de Garcia

My heart has been grieving this week. The murder of George Floyd—and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and more—was evil. I lament their horrific killings. May Jesus keep and hold each of them and their loved ones during this time of great suffering.

Commentary
6.3.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

With his remarks on the murder of George Floyd, Joe Biden showed us how to teach empathy and American history

Michael J. Petrilli

America’s schools could learn a lot about how to handle two hot-button issues from Joe Biden’s comments in response to George Floyd’s horrific murder: how to model and cultivate empathy for our fellow citizens, and how to teach an inclusive version of history. He carved a middle path between right and left that is anything but the mushy middle.

Commentary
6.3.2020
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Scrapping admissions tests won’t cure what ails education

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

On May 21, driven by exquisitely progressive intentions, the regents of the University of California made the worst policy decision in the recent history of American higher education: to eliminate SAT and ACT admissions testing for in-state applicants to all nine of their undergraduate campuses, which comprise one of the country’s biggest and historically most prestigious state systems.

Commentary
6.3.2020
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

The different ways charter and district schools are doing distance learning

The pandemic forced schools across the country to close and institute some form of remote learning, but their methods varied widely. To see just how much, analysts at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center on Reinventing Public Education have been examining how different public school districts and charter school networks have responded.

Commentary
5.28.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

What AP teachers taught us about learning continuity during coronavirus

Stefanie Sanford

The sudden shift to remote learning this spring demanded that schools innovate and adapt with incredible speed. The entire education world is trying to serve millions of suddenly home-bound students, and there’s simply no precedent for a challenge on that scale.

Commentary
5.27.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Half-Time High School may be just what students need

Michael J. Petrilli

The shutdown of America’s high schools has deprived millions of students of rites we previously took for granted. Coursework can be transferred online to some degree, but no virtual environment can replace football games, choir concerts, musicals, and so much more that’s part of the American high school experience.

Commentary
5.27.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Growth trends in social and emotional learning

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

In early 2019, the Aspen Institute released the findings of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. The report concluded that non-academic factors—such as managing emotions, goal setting, empathy, interpersonal relationships, self-regulation, and more—were vital ingredients to boosting academic achievement for all students.

Commentary
5.26.2020
School Finance, Governance

Four reasons Republicans should support aid for state and local governments

Michael J. Petrilli, Chad L. Aldis

Conservatives are right to be leery of bailing out profligate state and local governments, especially for needs that bear little relationship to—and pre-date—the virus crisis and its economic consequences. A well-crafted bill would base the amount of funding for state and local governments upon an estimate of the actual costs and losses incurred as result of the pandemic. It cannot be a blank check to fund every item on a state’s wish list. But telling states to “make hard decisions” is not going to cut it.

Commentary
5.22.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Seven steps to sending elementary kids back to school and parents back to work

Michael J. Petrilli

All over the country, states, districts, and task forces of every sort are wrestling with the question of how to safely reopen schools. This scenario planning is daunting, as schools must navigate a minefield of health, safety, legal, and instructional issues, and do so blindfolded by our ever-changing yet imperfect understanding of the virus itself.

Commentary
5.22.2020

Parents' demands for safe school reopenings

Keri Rodrigues

When the National Parents Union (NPU) met for the first time in New Orleans in January, things were just a little different. We knew we had a fight on our hands, but we never imagined what the next few months would bring.

Commentary
5.20.2020
Evidence-Based Learning, Career & Technical Education

What you make depends on where you live, not just whether you went to college

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

The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout has yielded yet another cautionary tale about the perils of entering the workforce with nothing but a high school diploma. But that doesn’t mean that everyone needs a four-year college degree, or that we should build our high schools around that singular mission. In many American cities, workers with associate degrees earn middle-class wages.

Commentary
5.20.2020
Governance

The coronavirus campaign: How the VP contenders stack up on ed reform

Dale Chu

With everything going on in the world, one can be forgiven for forgetting that we’re in the midst of an election year. But in 167 days, Americans will decide whether to give President Trump four more years. Joe Biden has essentially locked up the Democratic nomination, so the next big question is whom he will tap to be his running mate.

Commentary
5.20.2020
Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

On distance learning, Success Academy once again leads the way

Robert Pondiscio

In the summer of 2013, After New York’s adoption of new, more rigorous testing benchmarks under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, student test scores plummeted around the state, wiping out years of paper gains.

Report
5.19.2020
Career & Technical Education

What You Make Depends on Where You Live: College Earnings Across States and Metropolitan Areas

John V. Winters, Ph.D.

Yes, what you make depends on what you know and what credentials you carry. But it also depends on where you live. That's what we find in our new report by John V. Winters. The first-of-its-kind analysis compares mean earnings for full-time workers with different levels of education in all 50 states and D.C., over 100 metro areas, and rural America. Read it to learn more.

Commentary
5.19.2020

NEW REPORT: What You Make Depends on Where You Live: College Earnings across States and Metropolitan Areas

The Education Gadfly

Yes, what you make depends on what you know and what credentials you carry. But it also depends on where you live. That's what we find in our new report by John V. Winters. The first-of-its-kind analysis compares mean earnings for full-time workers with different levels of education in all 50 states and D.C., over 100 metro areas, and rural America. Read it to learn more.

Commentary
5.18.2020
Evidence-Based Learning

School discipline reform: A deep dive into the research

Tran Le

In January, we had the pleasure of featuring Matthew Steinberg, associate professor of education policy at George Mason University, on the Education Gadfly Show podcast. This episode was the second installment of our Research Deep Dive series, and our big topic of the day was school discipline reform.

Commentary
5.13.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A conservative agenda for school board members

Michael J. Petrilli, Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Those best positioned to push back against much of the nonsense that courses through our schools are school board members. And those interested in effecting positive change should adopt a three-part agenda: let our schools refocus on preparing children for informed citizenship; restore character, virtue, and morality to the head of the education table; and build an education system that confers dignity, respect, and opportunity upon every youngster.

Commentary
5.13.2020
Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders

Geography: The unloved stepchild of American education

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Many urgent challenges await the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and its governing board (NAGB) in the coming months, including whether the scheduled biennial testing of reading and math in grades four and eight is feasible during the 2020–21 school year.

Commentary
5.13.2020
Teachers & School Leaders

It took a teacher to make a decent movie about a teacher

Robert Pondiscio

Few vocations have suffered more in the hands of Hollywood mythmakers than teaching. This is curious. Schools offer a familiar and fertile setting, and teaching is inspiring, aspirational work. There is rich potential for drama in student backstories or in a good teacher’s ability to change a child’s life trajectory.