Month: November 2019
Is Disruptive Innovation Driving K-12 Privatization? – by Thomas Arnett
In the News: House Committee Considers Education Spending Bill That Trims Trump’s Cuts, Drops Funding for Private Choice – by Education Next
The role of peer relationships and interactions in preschool bilingual children's responses to picture books
In spite of the emphasis on the importance of social contexts in children’s literacy development, there is still a startling scarcity of studies examining the role of peer relationships in preschool bilinguals’ literary practices. This qualitative case study investigates how…
ESSA’s Eerie Parallels to Soviet Legislation – by Frederick Hess
Elementary English Learner Classroom Composition and Academic Achievement: The Role of Classroom-Level Segregation, Number of English Proficiency Levels, and Opportunity to Learn
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Using mixed methods, we investigated (a) the association of the extent of English learner (EL) classroom-level segregation (proportion EL) and number of EL English proficiency levels with elementary EL academic achievement, using 2…
In the News: Yearlong Residencies for Teachers are the Hot New Thing in Teacher Prep. But Do They Work? – by Education Next
Apprenticeship Programs in a Changing Economic World – by Eric A. Hanushek
Dancing literacy: Expanding childrens and teachers literacy repertoires through embodied knowing
This paper explores dance as literacy. Specifically, it examines qualitative case study research findings and student examples from a dance artist-in-residence that explored curricular content using dance as its primary mode of enquiry and expression. Throughout the residency, students constructed…