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On Wednesday, November 7 at 9:30 am, AEI will host a panel discussion looking at how the results of the election will affect federal and state education policies. Panelists include: Jason D. Delisle, AEI; Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, Third Way; Frederick M. Hess, AEI; Alyson Klein, Education Week; and Aaliyah Samuel, National Governors Association. Nat Malkus of AEI will moderate ...

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It’s a common mantra of education reformers: money does not explain why so many at-risk students in our country lack educational opportunity. But recent research calls this claim into question. In reviewing two school funding studies in the New York Times, Kevin Carey endorses their conclusions: money really does matter in education. The authors of these studies, who thoughtful...

Imagine how it might feel to be an educator at a school deemed “failing,” despite raising students’ performance dramatically. Unfortunately, that’s a reality for some of the nation’s most dedicated educators, especially those serving in historically marginalized communities. That’s because many states and districts evaluate schools on the basis of how many st...

I noted a few weeks back that education scholarship marginalizes itself when it so often seems to treat the more conservative half of the nation with casual contempt. In response, some professorial friends asked if the partisanship and bias I think I see isn’t just a product of my imagination. It’s a legitimate question. On that point, I think the following conference invitatio...

At the height of the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court a few weeks ago, a California math teacher took to Twitter, as many of us are wont to do, to vent. “I’m a teacher, and I don’t know what I’m going to say to my students if Kavanaugh gets confirmed,” fumed Nicholas Ponticello. “Do I tell them that this country doesn&#...

While many parents worry that their children are assigned too much homework, studies show that American students do very little homework, on average.  Janine Bempechat, clinical professor of human development at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, the author of a new article, “The Case for (Quality) Homework.” talks with Marty ...