American Educational Research Journal, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 3-4, February 2020. Source: American Educational Reasearch Journal
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Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice – by Robin J. Lake
Many respected national groups have recently set their sights on school choice as the new battlefront for disability rights. They are anywhere from open to highly skeptical to adamantly opposed to charter schools and private school choice, often aligning with teachers unions to try to block new proposals or to re-regulate existing policies.
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What My French School Taught Me About Expectations
Cour de Lorraine in Mulhouse, France, where the author attended school through 3rd grade
I grew up in a small, traditionalist corner of France called Alsace. The old schoolhouse I attended as a student hadn’t changed much since my grandparents’ generation. Our desks still had holes that once held inkpots.
The French classroom of my youth, though austere,...
America’s Semiquincentennial: A Year to Celebrate Patriotism and the Arts
President Donald Trump has scheduled a “grand” semiquincentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 as part of his executive order calling for “an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles.”
Worthy of salutation are not only the astonishing events of the y...
In the News: Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track – by Education Next
Dana Goldstein looks at efforts to retool and expand vocational education, now called career and technical education, in West Virginia in a front-page story for the New York Times.
Long one of the poorest states, it is now leading the way in turning vocational education from a Plan B for underachieving students into what policy makers hope will be a fuel source for the state’s...
Four Things You Need to Know About Education Policymaking – by Frederick Hess
The media has fostered a funhouse-mirror sense of education policy. Over the past few weeks, I taught my “Practice of Education Policy” course at Harvard’s Ed School and then co-hosted the AEI-Fordham Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS) program with my…
Magnet Schools—The Wild West of Public School Admissions?
“I probably shouldn’t be telling you this.”
I was on a Zoom call with a national leader in the magnet school movement, someone who frequently serves as a consultant to districts working to establish or overhaul a magnet program. I had asked her about the enrollment practices at a magnet school she had founded in a large Southern school district.
“If the...
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Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Source: Early Childhood literacy
The Power of Performance Pay
Natasha Boone, a 3rd-grade reading teacher, high fives a student at Titche Elementary School in Dallas in 2019. Boone was one of 400 teachers who participated in Dallas ISD’s successful ACE program to turn around the district’s lowest-performing schools.
Teacher evaluation reform dominated education policy throughout the 2010s when new performance-based...