Month: May 2020

Missing Al Shanker – by Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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Three recent experiences have served to remind me how much I miss—and how much the country and the cause of better education were diminished by the loss of—the late Albert Shanker, who passed away in 1997. While writing our new book on charter schooling, Bruno Manno and Brandon Wright and I were urged by our expert editor at Harvard Education Press to recall the origins of thi...

Learn abc for Fast Learners. Letters of the English Alphabet. The English Alphabets for Kids.

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Learn abc for Fast Learners. Letters of the English Alphabet. The English Alphabets for Kids. This is one of the supplementary material we use to teach our kids to master their alphabet. This is the area where we need to…

About That ‘White Supremacist’ Bedsheet Which Greeted Betsy DeVos’ Speech at Harvard – by Frederick Hess

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If you pay even a little attention to education policy, you’ve probably seen it: that oversized “WHITE SUPREMACIST” banner-on-a-bedsheet that was unmissable in photos of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ recent speech at Harvard. The photo ran yet again just the other day, accompanying an EdWeek story about the challenges DeVos has encountered in...

Has Eva Moskowitz Gone Too Far on Parent Accountability? – by Robert Pondiscio

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Leveraging the power of parent engagement is one of the under-appreciated ways in which Eva Moskowitz and her New York City-based network of Success Academy charter schools has significantly improved upon the work of pioneering “no excuses” charter schools. Many high-performing charters talk about parents as partners in their children’s education. Success Academy mandates it, m...

Should We Limit “Screen Time” in School? – by Daniel Scoggin

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A truism of school reform has long been the promise that technology, properly applied, will fuel dramatic improvement in teaching and learning. When tech-enabled schools or online learning programs haven’t delivered the hoped-for results, some have dismissed these shortcomings as implementation problems—or evidence that we haven’t yet deployed the right tools or the most effect...