On Tuesday, April 26 at 9 am, Brookings is hosting an event looking at charter schools in the U.S., what they are doing well, what they need to do better, and what their future holds. Among the panelists are Howard…
Month: November 2023
Does Stereotype Threat Deteriorate Academic Performance of High School Students With Learning Disabilities? The Buffering Role of Psychological Disengagement
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. Source: Journal of learning disabilities
The Bad Lesson of Good Grades
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Straight Up Conversation: Emily Krone Phillips on Chicago’s ‘Freshman OnTrack’ – by Frederick Hess
Emily Krone Phillips is the author of the new book The Make-or-Break Year, which chronicles how Chicago Public Schools used the metric Freshman OnTrack to boost graduation rates. Now at the Spencer Foundation, she was previously at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where the Freshman OnTrack research originated. I recently talked with Emily about dropouts...
A Noble, Flawed Effort
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The Brown decision of 1954 is celebrated as an educational equality victory, but the path of desegregating schools has been rocky and remains unfinished.
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In the News: Sanders Chooses Teachers Unions Over Black Voters – by Education Next
Last week, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for more regulations on existing charter schools and a moratorium on federal funding for new ones.
In the Wall Street Journal, Jason L. Riley notes that this stance is likely to cost Sanders support among black voters, who strongly favor charter schools and school vouchers.
Riley writes
Mr. Sanders’s claim notwithstanding...
The Charter-School Movement Just Keeps On Keepin’ On
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Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can’t miss the signs of charter-school momentum. New charter-school facility projects dot the landscape. Harmony Publ...
Two Tweaks for ESSA Accountability Rule – by Michael J. Petrilli
Editor’s note: This post reproduces a letter sent to Secretary of Education John King on July 29.
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I am writing to suggest two very specific changes to the proposed rule that your department published on May 31, 2016, regarding the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and its provisions for school-level accountability.
1. For the “a...
The Education Exchange: How The Last Frontier is First in Charter-Student Performance
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Shuttering Schools in Chicago – by Paul E. Peterson
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
by Eve L. Ewing
University of Chicago Press, 2018, $22.50; 240 pages.
As reviewed by Paul E. Peterson
Closing schools is as American as the 19th-century homesteading land rush. Indeed, it’s the flip side of desperate sprints for land, silver, or gold. When people race for distant treasure, they leave...