On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, starting at 9:30 am, AEI will host an event on education savings accounts (ESAs). As the event page notes, ESAs give families almost unfettered control over the public funds allocated for their child’s education. AEI and…
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Education Exchange Replay: How to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism – by Education Next
On Aug. 12, 2019, Todd Rogers, Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, sat down with Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new study that looks to curb chronic absenteeism through randomized experiments.
Rogers and Carly Robinson wrote the article “How to Tackle Student Absenteeism” for Education Next. Rogers and Avi Feller wrote the paper “Reducing...
Where Did Charter Schools Come From? by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Next month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the enactment of America’s first charter school law, which Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson signed on June 4, 1991. This statute birthed a sector that has become not just a source of new schools for kids who need them, but also a structural reform of public education’s governance and delivery systems. It’s as close as K–12 schooli...
Carter’s Winning 1976 Platform for Education Backed “Parental Freedom in Choosing”
The education policy legacy for which President Jimmy Carter, who died yesterday at age 100, is best known is almost certainly the creation of the federal Department of Education. Congress created that department in 1979 after a push by Carter to fulfill a campaign promise to the National Education Association, which had helped to get him elected.
Less well known, but ...
Education Exchange Replay: U.S. Schools Have More Special Education Teachers Than Ever
In this replay episode of the Education Exchange, Chad Aldeman, the founder of Read Not Guess, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the shortage of special education teachers in the United States.
“Where are All the Special Educators? Schools employ more special education teachers than ever. So why is there a shortage?” is available now from Ed...
Test Score Gains Predict Long-Term Outcomes, So We Shouldn’t Be Too Shy About Using Them by Education Next
Editor’s note: This post is the sixth and final entry in an ongoing discussion between Fordham’s Michael Petrilli and the University of Arkansas’s Jay Greene that seeks to answer this question: Are math and reading test results strong enough indicators of school quality that regulators can rely on them to determine which schools should be closed and which shou...
Demystifying simultaneous triliteracy development: One child’s emergent writing practices across three scripts focusing on letter recognition, directionality and name writing
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Source: Early Childhood literacy
Online reading comprehension with Dr. Julie Coiro
Dr. Baker interviews "Dr. Julie Coiro":http://www.uri.edu/hss/education/faculty/coiro.html about the skills middle-school students need to effectively read online. Source: voice of Literacy
Regulators Need To Use Test Scores With Great Care by Jay P. Greene
Editor’s note: This post is the fifth in an ongoing discussion between Fordham’s Michael Petrilli and the University of Arkansas’s Jay Greene that seeks to answer this question: Are math and reading test results strong enough indicators of school quality that regulators can rely on them to determine which schools should be closed and which should be expanded—e...
The Don’t Do It Depository – by Morgan S. Polikoff
We have known for quite a while that schools engage in all manner of tricks to improve their performance under accountability systems. These behaviors range from the innocuous—teaching the content in state standards—to the likely harmful—outright cheating.
A new study last week provided more evidence of the unintended consequences of another gaming behavior—reassigning teacher...