American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Source: American Educational Reasearch Journal
Month: August 2025
Space and practices: Engagement of children under 3 with tablets and televisions in homes in Spain, Sweden and England
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Young children’s engagements with digital technologies form part of their emergent everyday literacy practices. The study reported here derives from the pan-European study ‘A Day in the Digital Lives of Children aged…
Should State Universities Downplay the SAT? – by Jack Buckley
Many private colleges and some public institutions no longer require prospective students to submit their scores on standardized tests such as the SAT and the ACT. Now the coronavirus pandemic is hastening that trend, as additional institutions announced this spring…
Standardized Tests Can Serve as a Neutral Yardstick – by Jack Buckley
Although many postsecondary students in the United States attend local or regional nonselective institutions, the selective-college admissions process nevertheless captures the imagination of the media and policymakers year in and year out. One frequently returning story has centered on the growing number of institutions changing their policies on the use of standardized testin...
Test Optional Offers Benefits but It’s Not Enough – by Dominique Baker
A growing number of colleges and universities—including state systems of higher education such as the University of California and Indiana University—are weighing the role of standardized-test scores in the admissions process, typically citing concerns that the tests disadvantage low-income students and students of color and that the scores add little beyond high-school grades ...
A Rosy Vision for the Public Schools – by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Addicted to Reform:
A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education
by John Merrow
The New Press, 2017, $25.95; 320 pages.
As reviewed by Chester E. Finn Jr.
Don’t be misled by the provocative title and subtitle, which might lead one to expect in these pages a back-to-the-future, Diane Ravitch–like defense of the education status quo—and which likely account for the book’s fawnin...
The Education Exchange: A Federal Right to a Basic Minimum Education? – by Education Next
The co-leader of the Eversheds Sutherland Business and Commercial Litigation team, Rocco E. Testani, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a recent decision from the Sixth Circuit in the Gary B. v. Whitmer case. The court ruled that “substandard outcomes” in Detroit’s public schools violated a Constitutional right to a basic education for students, going against d...
Public Schools Don’t Have a Monopoly on Creating Good Citizens – by Robert Pondiscio
In an essay in the new issue of The Atlantic, titled “Americans Have Given Up on Public Schools. That’s a Mistake,” Erika Christakis frets over the “dystopian narrative” that she says dominates conversations about public schools, which she insists are “nothing close to the cesspools portrayed by political hyperbole.” Her complaint refers not only to the disdain for public educ...
What AI Revealed About a Top Math Program
America’s students continue to struggle in mathematics. The reasons are multifarious and sometimes elusive, but our recent research suggests the difficulties may have less to do with the math itself and more to do with language.
Using a new AI-based platform we built as students (and now deploy at our startup ed-tech company M7E AI) that examines math c...
Comparison of Reading Growth Among Students With Severe Reading Deficits Who Received Intervention to Typically Achieving Students and Students Receiving Special Education
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. This study compared the reading growth of students with and without learning disabilities, and students with and without reading deficits in response to tier 2 reading interventions within a response-to-intervention framework. Participants were…