Month: January 2026

Behind the Headline: Teachers Are Warned About Criticizing New York State Tests by Education Next

By admin on Uncategorized
On Top of the News Teachers Are Warned About Criticizing New York State Tests The New York Times | 3/24/2016 Behind the Headline Public Supports Testing, Opposes Opt-Out, Opposes Federal Intervention Education Next | 7/28/2015 In New York City, where state testing begins next week, the Department of Education is warning teachers and principals not to encourage parents to opt th...

Magnitude Comparisons, Number Knowledge and Calculation in VeryPreterm Children and Children With Specific Learning Disability: A Cross-Population Study Using Eye-Tracking

By admin on Uncategorized

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. Difficulties in mathematics have been described in very preterm children, but their origins are not well understood and may differ from other populations with specific learning disability. Very preterm children, children with learning…

In the News: Can These New Colleges Help Solve Higher Education’s Equity Problem? – by Education Next

By admin on Uncategorized
In EdSurge, Allison Dulin Salisbury describes a new type of college, sometimes called a hybrid college, that aims to help low-income students earn college degrees. Loosely defined as affordable programs with strong learning and career outcomes, hybrid colleges often share three design principles: intensive wrap-around student support that directly meets student needs; digital ...

The Culture War on Repeat

By admin on Uncategorized
Before Moms for Liberty, before Christopher Rufo, before Nikole Hannah-Jones, there was “Man: A Course of Study”. Usually shortened to its acronym, MACOS was an elementary and middle school social studies curriculum developed by a team of Harvard-based researchers, funded by the National Science Foundation, and implemented in a handful of school distric...

The Finlandization of New Orleans

By admin on Uncategorized
/* custom css */ .tdi_2_aea{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_a55{ vertical-align: baseline; } Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education By Douglas N. Harris University of Chicago Press, 2020, $60 cloth, $20 paperba...

Reading’s Thin Line Between Difficult and Boring

By admin on Uncategorized
Parents at Deal Middle School in Northwest Washington D.C. were recently shocked to learn that their 8th-grade students would no longer read full-length books. School leaders at the wealthiest public middle school in the nation’s capital told parents that reading short passages will better prepare students for high school. The rationale for this change ...

Behind the Headline: edTPA Teaching Exam’s Ties to Effectiveness Mixed, Study Finds by Education Next

By admin on Uncategorized
On Top of the News edTPA Teaching Exam’s Ties to Effectiveness Mixed, Study Finds Teacher Beat | 5/19/16 Behind the Headline In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most Education Next | Spring 2016 A new study looks at the predictive validity of the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a new performance-based test that is being used as a teacher licensing exam in some sta...