Month: February 2020
The Mixed Blessings of Education Technology – by Chester E. Finn, Jr.
In the News: Could the Dip Be a Blip? – by Education Next
“We’re in This Together”: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Elementary School PTOs
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Scholarship on the links between families and schools encompasses contradictory notions about social capital and its relation to inequality. One view holds that schools can narrow inequality by generating dense relationships among families,…
A Model for Assessment in Play-Based Kindergarten Education
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Kindergarten teachers face the challenge of integrating contemporary assessment practices with play-based pedagogy. The current study addresses this challenge by presenting a kindergarten assessment framework rooted in theory and current classroom practices, based…
Talking HBO and School Reform – by Frederick Hess
The Mismeasure of “Enforcement” – by R. Shep Melnick
Catherine Lhamon is the chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently released a 600+ page report on how thirteen federal agencies are enforcing civil rights laws. Like the Commission’s many previous reports,…