Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Source: Early Childhood literacy
Month: January 2025
In the News: A Strategy Backfires, Increasing Teen Births – by Education Next
Reducing teen pregnancy is one of the major social policy success stories in the United States, notes Zoe Greenberg in the New York Times. In the past 25 years, the teen birth rate declined by 61 percent nationwide, she reports.
But oddly enough, one popular program used by schools to discourage teen pregnancy may not be effective.
Greenberg writes
For more than two decades, e...
Behind the Headlines: Are Religious Charter Schools Constitutional?
Last week, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments in a case on the constitutionality of religious charter schools. That very topic was featured in a panel discussion at a conference last fall hosted by the Program…
What about the Non-Graybill Students? – by Ira Stoll
Raph Graybill. One of the biggest chuckles I had over the holiday break was while reading the New York Times news article previewing the U.S. Supreme Court case Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. The case is about a Montana…
Is There Still a Connection Between Public and Private Morality?
Pete Hegseth’s one-vote Senate confirmation as Secretary of Defense highlights yet again the question of the connection between private morality and public service.
Once upon a time, the answer was clear. George Washington, our founding president, chopped down a cherry tree, but he did not tell a lie about it. Young “Honest Abe,” our greatest president,...
Florida Teachers Seeking Pay Boost Have a Big Opportunity – by Frederick Hess
The Rev. Al Sharpton, front center, leads protestors as they march during the Florida Education Association’s “Take on Tallahassee” rally at the Old Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla.
Florida’s teachers marched on Tallahassee this week. As Fed Ingram, president of the Florida Education Association, energetically declared in the Miami Herald, “The teacher...
Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Open Door—and Federal Wallet—for Religious Charter Schools
The Supreme Court agreed last Friday afternoon to hear a landmark religious charter schools case out of Oklahoma, and it’s a much bigger deal than you might imagine.
Many of the headlines refer to whether states “can” or “may” allow religious charter schools. But that’s not the question at all; not a single state has enacted legislation allowing religio...
Writing and Revision Strategies of Students With and Without Dyslexia
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. Previous work suggests that written text produced by university students with dyslexia is scored lower than that produced by their peers. The present study used a digital writing tablet to examine the writing…
The End of the Bush-Obama Regulatory Approach to School Reform by Paul E. Peterson
At the turn of the 21st century, the United States was trying to come to grips with a serious education crisis. The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a half-century effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had made little headway. Many people expected action from the federal government.
George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the century’s first t...
High School Students Get a Jump on College
Sulakshana Thanvanthri (center), an engineering and physical science instructor at Springfield Technical Community College, assists high school students Koji Nunez, Jay Lindell, and Rusmariel Alcantara during physics lab. All three students are gaining college experience at STCC while enrolled at nearby Veritas Prep Charter High School.
Rusmariel Alcanta...