Month: September 2024

6 Tips From Personalized Learning Innovators Leading Change – by Julia Freeland Fisher

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Earlier this year, the Rhode Island-based Highlander Institute and the Clayton Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. More t...

Steven Brill Has Learned Nothing

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Steven Brill A couple weeks ago, Obama-era “school reform” superfan Steven Brill resurfaced. In an interview with The 74, the journalist popped up after a decade to blithely disown the dogma on the magic of teacher evaluation and charter schools that he’d once championed, in favor of current progressive dogma on the failings of school choice. Brill, auth...

The Education Exchange: School Choice and Blaine Amendments in Montana – by Education Next

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Richard Komer, a former Senior Litigation Attorney at the Institute for Justice, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, a case which could declare the Blaine Amendments in 38 state constitutions unconstitutional. Komer is defending plaintiffs, including Kendra Espinoza, who received a tax credit scholarship to attend a religious school. In ...

Good Teachers Hold the Key to Learning Loss Recovery

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The federal funding to help schools cope with the Covid-19 pandemic is winding down—and as it does, the drumbeat for a fresh infusion of federal dollars is growing louder. But before more money is spent, it’s time to ask what we got out of the last $190 billion of federal dollars. This money largely went directly to schools with few strings attached. T...