Charter schools have long fought to get their fair share of per pupil funding. Parker Baxter joins Marty West to discuss how two states have passed breakthrough laws mandating that charters have equitable access to local funds.
Parker Baxter, scholar in residence at the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs, is co-author, with Todd Ely and Paul Teske, of “...
Month: December 2020
In the News: Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help – by Education Next
Online courses offer many benefits to high achievers who are extremely motivated but would otherwise lack access to advanced coursework, Sue Dynarski explains in the New York Times. However, she writes,
In high schools and colleges, there is mounting evidence that the growth of online education is hurting a critical group: the less proficient students who are precisely those mo...
When Cultivating Expertise, Here’s How Technology Can Help – by Frederick Hess
I’ve been talking about the nature of expertise and the roles working and long-term memory play in making us “expert.” For more on all of this, see Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age by the brilliant Bror Saxberg and yours truly.
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Practice is what cements learning into long-term memory. Traditionally, teachers juggling 25 students have trouble integrating lo...
Reading identities across language contexts: The role of language of text and talk for multilingual learners
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Reading identities are the ways that a child constructs the self as a reader across contexts and time. This study examines the impact of language contexts on the reading identities of multilingual…
Judith T Lysaker, Before words: wordless picture books and the development of reading in young children
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Source: Early Childhood literacy
What We’re Watching: Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act – Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency – by Education Next
The Higher Ed Act is due for reauthorization and there is broad agreement that the federal financial aid system needs to be fixed.
At a hearing on student debt held last week by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Ed Next executive editor Matt Chingos (who also serves as director of education policy at the Urban Institute) suggested some changes to the ...
Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavioral Executive Functioning for Students With Dyslexia
Journal of Learning Disabilities, Ahead of Print. Research exploring behavioral ratings of executive functioning (EF) for children and adolescents with dyslexia is scarce, which limits researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents from understanding and best supporting these students at home and/or…
Charters and the Common Good – by Sarah A. Cordes
Eva Moskowitz, founder of the Success Academy charter school network, speaks at a rally for space for new Success charter schools in New York City.
Charter schools represent a small share of the national education market: just 6.2 percent of all public schools and 4.6 percent of all students. But their rapid growth over the past two decades has captured an outsized measure of ...
Cristo Rey Schools Build Social Capital for Students — and Financial Stability for Schools – by Stephen V. Coffin
Cristo Rey Schools are often discussed in the context of other innovations that could save Catholic schooling from decline. For at Cristo Rey high schools, students are able to pay up to 70 percent of their own tuition at a high-quality Catholic school by working one full day per week at a job in a professional setting arranged by their school. While the financial benefits of ...
The Education Exchange: Is America More Divided than Ever? – by Education Next
Morris Fiorina, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of “Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate,” joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his new book, which aims to correct the widespread assumption that Americans today are more polarized than ever.
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