A student at the Sainte-Croix elementary school works as half of her writing desk is marked with a tape to ensure that safe distance is kepton May 15, 2020, in Hannut, Belgium. A consensus is growing among health officials that American schools, virtually all of which closed their doors this March, will be able to reopen in the fall. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National ...

After runs in New York and Chicago, the Hamilton Education Program is now in Los Angeles, where over 7,800 high school students will get the opportunity to see the touring production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit, according to an article in Variety by Rebecca Rubin. The students, who prepare to see the performance by studying American history using a special curric...

The debate about the pros and cons of “No Excuses” schools—charter schools that offer rigid curriculums and strict behavioral rules to promote academic success—is polarized. Supporters cite quantitative research comparing admissions lottery winners and losers to argue that No Excuses schools have been saviors for high poverty students and students of color, promoting upward so...

On Top of the News On the anniversary of Brown v. Board, new evidence that U.S. schools are resegregating The Washington Post | 5/17/16 Behind the Headline Desegregation Since the Coleman Report Education Next | Spring 2016 A new report released by the Government Accountability Office finds that poor, minority students are increasingly isolated from their white, affluent peers ...

It’s 6:29pm on a chilly Thursday evening, and a line of cars is parked outside a cheery blue Victorian house. One by one, car doors open and a pack of 3rd-grade boys emerges, skipping and whooping their way to the front door. No one wants to be late for book club. On this night, they’re eager to discuss a short graphic novel in the Lunch Lady series, this time involving a demon...

It feels more than a little tone-deaf to say this right now, given the dumpster fire that is the current state of our national affairs, but education reform is having a pretty good year. That’s certainly not what many of us predicted twelve months ago. We worried that Donald Trump’s support for charter schools and school choice would make those issues toxic on the left; growin...

In this video, Dan Willingham explains why reading comprehension tests don’t actually test reading comprehension. This presentation was made at the 2017 Educator Summit hosted by Relay GSE and Character Lab. More videos from the event are available here. — Education Next Source: EducationNext...

Just in time for the start of the school year, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has returned to an old and familiar claim: Public school teachers are underpaid, and the pay gap is widening. The claim is perhaps too old and too familiar. EPI’s new report, authored by Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel, is a repeat of its 2008 report, and as such, it ignores the important ...