Training for high-tech: In Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tyner Academy students (from left) Jada Beckett and Takayla Sanford work on building circuits, while “mechatronics” teacher Bryan Robinson instructs Brookeana Willams and Noemy Marberry about soldering. For millions of students at American colleges,…
Month: March 2025
Did Trump Abolish the Department of Education with the Stroke of a Pen?
President Donald Trump, shown with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, signed the executive order to close the Department of Education on March 20. Section 2 of the order states, “The Secretary of Education shall . . . take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local com...
The Education Exchange: Reckoning with the Failures of the Covid Era
The Education Exchange · Ep. 386 – March 31, 2025 – Reckoning with the Failures of the Covid Era
Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Macedo’s new book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us, co-...
The Education Exchange: Should Muslim Students Be Allowed to Form Afterschool Religious Clubs? – by Education Next
Paul is joined by EdNext editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss findings from the new EdNext poll on school reform, which measured public support for the rights of Muslim students and of evangelical students to form afterschool religious clubs.
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The Education Exchange: The Gap Between High School Graduation and College Preparedness – by Education Next
A distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Macke Raymond (pictured), joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Raymond’s new paper that looks into rising high school graduation rates, and the gap between those high-school graduation requirements and the entry requirements for state universities.
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The paper, “The Diploma Dilemma,...
Choosing a Curriculum: A Critical Act – by David Steiner
An education system without an effective instructional core is like a car without a working engine: It can’t fulfill its function. No matter how much energy and money we spend working on systemic issues – school choice, funding, assessments, accountability, and the like – not one of these policies educates children. That is done only through curriculum and teachers: the materia...
Using Video-Based Instruction via Augmented Reality to Teach Mathematics to Middle School Students With Learning Disabilities
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of video-based mathematics instruction for seven middle school students with specific learning disability (SLD), using an augmented reality-based training package. The dependent variable…
In the News: The Oldest Kids in the Class May Get an Edge in College Admissions – by Education Next
A new study evaluates whether students who are the oldest in their class have an advantage over their younger peers.
As described by Ben Leubsdorf of the Wall Street Journal
A recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by [Chris] Karbownik and three co-authors—University of Toronto economist Elizabeth Dhuey, Northwestern economist David Figlio and University of F...
To Change Educational Practice, Try Building a New System by Michael J. Petrilli
A few weeks ago, I argued that policy change is not the only path to education reform, floated five other approaches for improving educational practice, and promised to flesh them out in future posts. Here’s my attempt at the first of those five strategies: “Build a new system via charter schools, education savings accounts, or similar mechanisms” as an alternative to today’s t...
In the News: #XQBigReveal on Facebook at 3 pm – by Education Next
Today at 3 pm on Facebook, XQ will announce the winners of its Super Schools competition to rethink high school.
Among those tweeting in advance about the announcement were @YoYo_Ma @ArneDuncan and @MCHammer
You can learn more about the Super Schools project here.
For an in-depth look at an earlier school design competition, you can read Jeff Mirel’s feature story about N...