The education world continues to digest the headline finding from the 2017 EdNext Poll: a dozen-percentage-point one-year decline in support for charter schools, with similar drops among Republicans and Democrats. Those supporting the creation of charter schools still outnumber proponents by a 39%-36% margin, but the gap has narrowed dramatically. @connortd via Twenty20 For cha...

The New York Times ran an interminable front-page piece on Sunday raising doubts about the ethics and propriety of teachers who promote commercial products, especially those from big tech firms like Apple and Google, for use by other teachers and their schools. The example that reporter Natasha Singer focused on—”one of the tech-savviest teachers in the United States̶...

Students from South Bronx Community Charter High School join community leaders in the Future of the City March against police brutality in December 2017. In June 2019, Steven Wilson, then CEO of the high-performing Brooklyn charter school network Ascend, wrote a blog post entitled “The promise of intellectual joy.” After making the case for universal, ch...

Robert Pondiscio joins EdNext editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the curriculum-driven reform efforts led by the Louisiana Department of Education. Robert is the author of a new article, “Louisiana Threads the Needle on Ed Reform: Launching a coherent curriculum in a local-control state.” The EdNext Podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, Soundcloud, Stitche...

Do computers help or hinder classroom learning in college? Step into any college lecture and you’ll find a sea of students with laptops and tablets open, typing as the professor speaks. With their enhanced ability to transcribe content and look up concepts on the fly, are students learning more from lecture than they were in the days of paper and pen? A growing body of evidenc...

Let’s assume that nobody is going to end up taking state assessments or end-of-course exams this spring. One way or another, everyone will be waived from those federal obligations and their state-imposed counterparts, mainly at the high-school level. The College Board and ACT are striving to improvise, reschedule, and reformat their volitional tests, such as AP and SAT, and so...