Sloane Stephens beat Venus Williams yesterday to make it to the finals of the U.S. Open. When Stephens, now 24, was 16, she and two other tennis players spoke with Education Next about what it was like to attend a…
Month: March 2020
Sal Khan on Teaching 40 Million Kids at Home – by Frederick Hess
Sal Khan is the founder of Khan Academy, a nonprofit that provides free, online-learning tools that are used by more than 30 million kids, educators, and parents. Andrew Plepler is global head of environment, social, and governance at Bank of America—longtime partner of Khan Academy. Last week, as schools closed, Bank of America bankrolled Khan Academy’s push to create da...
Disrupted – by Thomas Toch
The reforms of the past decade have transformed public education in D.C. from a traditional, single-delivery model to a competitive, performance-based educational ecosystem—provid- ing a promising new example of urban public education. When the District of Columbia’s city councilors handed…
In the News: Sixth Grade Is Tough; It Helps To Be ‘Top Dog’ – by Education Next
On NPR, Anya Kamenetz reports on a study that finds that sixth graders who attend K-8 schools do better than sixth graders who attend middle schools.
Middle schoolers report higher rates of bullying and fights than students in any other grade span, and their academic performance also tends to dip. But things could be a little better — if we just got rid of middle schools, accor...
The Education Exchange: Coronavirus Threatens Teacher Pensions – by Education Next
The director of the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research at Saint Louis University, Michael Podgursky, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss what long-term economic effects are likely to result from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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(Re)Thinking children as fully (in)human and literacies as otherwise through (re)etymologizing intervene and inequality
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 13-43, March 2020. Source: Early Childhood literacy
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Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 162-163, March 2020. Source: Early Childhood literacy
Literacy and language as material practices: Re-thinking social inequality in young children’s literacies
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 3-12, March 2020. Source: Early Childhood literacy
Tuning into ‘fleshy’ frequencies: A posthuman mapping of affect, sound and de/colonized literacies with/in a primary classroom
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 134-157, March 2020. Source: Early Childhood literacy
How to Earn Public Support for Charter Schools – by Michael Magee
The education world continues to digest the headline finding from the 2017 EdNext Poll: a dozen-percentage-point one-year decline in support for charter schools, with similar drops among Republicans and Democrats. Those supporting the creation of charter schools still outnumber proponents by a 39%-36% margin, but the gap has narrowed dramatically.
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