Month: October 2020
What We’re Watching: Online Course on Using PISA to Drive Progress by Education Next
EdPolicy Leaders Online has launched a new online course that will take a close look at PISA data and explore how the data can be used to improve education policymaking in the U.S. As Andreas Schleicher of OECD explains Tracking trends…
Santa’s 2017 Naughty and Nice List for Education – by Frederick Hess
Are Donations Bigger in Texas? Analyzing the Impact of a Policy to Match Donations to Texas’ Emerging Research Universities
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. We examine the impact of the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP), a state policy that offers matching funds to incentivize private-sector donations to certain public universities. We use a national dataset and employ…
Biden’s Regulatory Agenda on Education
Should Non-Cognitive Skills Be Included in School Accountability Systems? by Martin R. West
Black Lives Matter: Storying, Identities, and Counternarratives
Journal of Literacy Research, Ahead of Print. In this academic counternarrative, we examine how Black students and adults get positioned by, and come to resist, discourses that favor dominant linguistic and cultural practices. We ask, How do Black youth and…
Relationship Building in a Black Space: Partnering in Solidarity
Journal of Literacy Research, Ahead of Print. Given the persistence of anti-Blackness, the author demonstrates what can happen when Blackness takes precedence over anti-Blackness in an 11th-grade English classroom. This study uses critical autoethnography to explore a collaborative approach to…
A Biden Presidency Promises Tens of Billions More Dollars For K-12 Education. The Trick Is Making Sure It Buys Something Worthwhile.
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Remote or In-Person Reopening Decisions Are Linked to Trump 2016 Vote Share, Catholic School Presence, a New Study Finds
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