It is widely accepted that protecting civil rights is a cornerstone of the federal role in American education. But exactly how and how far the federal government should go about carrying out that responsibility – well, that’s another story. At the center of those debates is the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. In this week’s episode, Marty West talks with...

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The 2017 Brown Center Report (BCR) on American Education was released last week, and one of the report’s studies focuses on out-of-school suspensions. For the past several years, state education leaders in California have encouraged schools to reduce these exclusionary punishments. A major reason for doing so is that racial disparities associated with suspensions are glaring: ...

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In a recent Ed Next article, Mike Petrilli wrote about Eureka Math, a free online math curriculum library that has become surprisingly popular with teachers across the country. A new study by Rand looks more closely at how and why teachers are using the math curriculum and an associated reading curriculum, which are both now promoted under the name EngageNY. Liana Loewus of Ed ...

On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 8:30 am, Sen. Lamar Alexander will deliver a keynote address about the Every Student Succeeds Act at AEI. His speech will be followed by a discussion of what the new law will mean for states, families and students. Panelists include Charlie Barone, Mike Casserly, Max Eden, Rick Hess, Alyson Klein, and Gerard Robinson. To watch the event live, cl...

There are two ways to read “Investigating Causal Effects of Arts Education Experiences,” which reports on a first-of-its-kind arts education experiment from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The first is with a measure of relief. The authors, Daniel H. Bowen of Texas A&M, and the University of Missouri’s Brian Kisida, claim measurable academic, social,...

Since the 2001 passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, test-based accountability has been an organizing principle—perhaps the organizing principle—of efforts to improve American schools. But lately, accountability has been under fire from many critics, including Common Core opponents and those calling for more multifaceted measures of teacher and school performance. And yet th...