Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Over at The 74 we’re living blogging the DNC this week (you can also see RNC blogging from last week). Here’s my take on the Dem strategy, the Dem ticket on ed, and why ed doesn’t really matter to the outcome. Last week I took a look at the longer term ed game on the …
Marguerite Roza and Paul Hill say the conversation about school productivity is an essential one.
King of all higher education media Kevin Carey has a new article out on technology and higher ed productivity. And if that’s not exciting enough, you can meet the great man himself at this event on technology and college costs on December 2nd in Washington. More background here.
Last week my colleagues Alex Spurrier and Marisa Mission launched the first edition of a new Bellwether newsletter focused on AI. I’m crossposting the first one in its entirety and hope you will subscribe to get future ones by signing up here. – AR June 2024 ISSUE #1By Alex Spurrier and Marisa Mission We’re sharing …
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I haven’t written a lot about AI here at Eduwonk. And where I have it’s more questions than answers. That’s where we are on the tech right now. And I haven’t done that thing where I have AI write the post and that’s the big reveal. AI did not write this. My colleagues Amy Chen …
The United States Secretary of Education tweeted this the other day: To get right to it: That’s wrong. More importantly it’s also counterproductive if we want to pay teachers more (or get people to take education policy seriously or be able to take a serious stand on using evidence or….you get the idea). We do …
Why are NAEP scores doing the opposite of what the Rolling Stones would want…going up up up. NAEP is going down or flat. People have different takes. Yesterday we heard from Sandy Kress about accountability, today school finance expert Marguerite Roza takes a look at the question of money. NAEP scores are down. Funding is …
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Alex Spurrier’s op-ed on school choice in Louisville includes this zinger: “For too long, low-income families in Louisville have had to settle for what other people think is best for their children, while the affluent can vote with their feet and their pocketbooks.” Jennifer Schiess on how school performance frameworks can be designed for system …
Carrie Hahnel has a new piece up at TeacherPensions.org looking at California Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal to spend $850 million to “buy down” school district contribution rates. Hahnel finds that districts with fewer low-income, English learner, and foster youth students will receive more of a benefit, mainly because those districts can afford to pay their …
Bellwether was named one of Washington’s Best Places To Work by Washingtonian. Was at a school today that uses Summit but as they were telling me about the various tools they use they made a point of distancing themselves from that one…So, the Times story seems to have accomplished what advocates hoped. What’s ironic, of …