/* custom css */ .tdi_10_4fd{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_12_ddd{ vertical-align: baseline; } The Biden administration is committed to “building back better” in support of families. One part of building back must be assessing the challenges created…
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Focus on Instruction and Intervention, Not Testing, in 2021
/* custom css */ .tdi_18_455{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_20_900{ vertical-align: baseline; } Teachers and parents have struggled to keep chil-dren on course over the past year, but the extended school closures have clearly taken their toll…
The Solution Nikole Hannah-Jones Didn’t Take
“Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?” Najya asked her mother, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times reporter and creator of the bestselling book and television series The 1619 Project. Najya was enrolled in the Urban Assembly Unison School, a low-performing New York City middle school. “You know what I am talking ...
Snap Judgment – by Joshua Dunn
To what extent does the First Amendment apply to students’ off-campus communications on the Internet?
Do schools have the authority to punish students for offensive messages they send via social media? Four years ago, Martha Derthick and I argued that the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually be drawn into the debate over off-campus cyber-speech (see “Digital Discipline,” legal ...
How Viral Education Policies Have Extended the Pandemic’s Impact
High school students in Viveiro in Galicia, Spain, sit for the Selectivity or University Entrance Examinations on July 7, 2020—an exception granted to a mandated nationwide shutdown to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented disruption to schooling worldwide, causing learning losses that students in many places have...
The Education Exchange: More School Districts Moving to Remote-Only, Study Finds
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EdNext Podcast: Charter Schools in the Real Wild West – by Education Next
In many western states, charter schools operate with little regulation or oversight. Matt Ladner joins Marty West on the podcast to defend this approach to charter school policy.
Ladner, a senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute, is the author of “In Defense of Education’s ‘Wild West.’”
The EdNext Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Sou...
How Would a Blue Wave in the Midterms Impact Education?
Midterm elections are often tough for the party that controls the White House. That’s especially true for Republicans this year, with inflation up and Trump’s poll numbers way down. Signs of a potential blue wave are evident in the generic ballot and projections for key races. Five weeks from Election Day, betting markets predict that Democrats will cla...
Straight Up Conversation: Build UP Founder Mark Martin – by Frederick Hess
Mark Martin recently launched Build Urban Prosperity in Birmingham, Alabama. Build UP is a workforce development model. It seeks to provide low-income youth with career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships coupled with appropriate academic coursework. Mark has spent more than 15 years as an educator, co-founding New Orleans’ Langston Hughes Academy charter school and...
In the News: Inside the $28,000-a-year private school where children of tech workers learn to become the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk – by Education Next
BASIS runs 25 charter schools, and there are always a few BASIS charter schools listed among the top public schools in the U.S. These are free public schools with no admissions requirements. They admit students by lottery. But in addition to the public charter schools there are a small handful of private BASIS schools that charge $25,000 or more in tuition.
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