Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Juvenile justice schools are intended to be places of rehabilitation, but we lack even basic data about how many students are enrolled there, let alone how those students are doing. Plus, as Hailly Korman, Max Marchitello, and Alexander Brand show in this new deck, the data we do have suggests those students lack access to …
Here’s a new analysis by Kelly Robson and Julie Squire on charter school facilities in Idaho. Currently, about 6,000 Idaho students are on waitlists for charter schools. And the state is expected to add nearly 22,000 new prek-12 students by fall 2022. The charter sector can help ensure these students have access to a high-quality …
This week we’re sharing some of the insights we’ve gained through our work at EdNavigator, helping families with schools in New Orleans over the past year. Here’s what we’ve covered so far: Insight #1: A little help goes a long way. Insight #2: Families are overwhelmed with confusing information. Insight #3: Summer is a massive …
Everyone wants to know what’s up with the Loveless take on Common Core and there is even a bit of panic. I guess it shows my perspective on all this but I didn’t even think the Common Core analysis was the most noteworthy part of this year’s Brookings report. Seemed mostly obvious and given the …
Ed Note – All week Eric Hanushek and Diane Ravitch have discussed and debated the pros and cons of more assertive policies to deselect the lowest-performing teachers. Hanushek started on Monday, Ravitch responded on Tuesday, again Hanushek on Wednesday, and here is Ravitch with the final installment today. Many thanks to both of them for …
Ed Note – This week Eric Hanushek and Diane Ravitch debate the pros and cons of more concerted efforts to remove the lowest-performing teachers in schools. Hanushek starts the discussion today, Ravitch responds tomorrow, and additional responses Wednesday and Thursday as well. By Eric Hanushek, Stanford University Almost everybody concerned with educational policy agrees on …
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By James Merriman Tennyson has his Ulysses say at one point, “I am become a name,” signaling his ascent from mere mortal to legend. Something like that is happening to good old Finland, now a land of educational legend thanks to its stellar standing in international achievement comparisons. Except it has become a talking point. …
by Michael Regnier A candid Julie Greenberg: “Teacher prep value-added models aren’t even at stage 1.0.” Matt Di Carlo cares about civility more than he cares about children. Is the Harlem Children’s Zone a “little Finland”? First in a series. (Disc: HCZ’s Geoffrey Canada is a Charter Center board member.) A paper from Jobs for …
The Economist takes a look at schools. The analysis overlooks just how much the debate about internal comparisons is alive with correlation – causation fallacies and cherry-picking of data and evidence but it’s hard to argue with the point that the education debate is shifting to a more empirical footing – that’s a big story …
Arne Duncan tells The Times that he’s starting to think about a big package of No Child Left Behind waivers (called “plan B”) because Congress isn’t acting. Ignore the overheated rhetoric neither the lack of action on NCLB or the waivers on the horizon are a big surprise. Two distinct issues here though: Turf and …
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