Month: February 2021

Condition Covid Aid on Opening Schools

By admin on February 3, 2021 Uncategorized abc

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Why We Need State-by-State NAEP Scores for 12th Graders – by Chester E. Finn, Jr.

By admin on February 2, 2021 Uncategorized abc

The single best thing that could happen to American education in the next few years would be for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to begin regularly reporting state-by-state results at the twelfth grade level. That this isn’t happening today is a lamentable omission, albeit one with multiple causes. But it’s fixable. All it requires is determination by th...

Now What? – by Michael J. Petrilli

By admin on February 2, 2021 Uncategorized abc

Like most of you I am in shock and more than a little worried. I can’t pretend to be a neutral policy analyst today; I made my deep concerns known about a Donald Trump presidency, and they haven’t gone away. His thin-skinned temperament, his bullying tendencies, his scapegoating of Mexican-Americans and Muslim-Americans, his support from White Nationalists and Vladimir Putin, h...

Statewide Assessments in 2021

By admin on February 2, 2021 Uncategorized abc

/* custom css */ .tdi_2_d4e{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_f64{ vertical-align: baseline; } The Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to test students in math and reading annually in grades 3–8 and once in high school, based on the premise that such testing provides a cruc...

Assessment Data Can Help Us Build Back Better

By admin on February 2, 2021 Uncategorized abc

/* custom css */ .tdi_10_4fd{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_12_ddd{ vertical-align: baseline; } The Biden administration is committed to “building back better” in support of families. One part of building back must be assessing the challenges created…

Focus on Instruction and Intervention, Not Testing, in 2021

By admin on February 2, 2021 Uncategorized abc

/* custom css */ .tdi_18_455{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_20_900{ vertical-align: baseline; } Teachers and parents have struggled to keep chil-dren on course over the past year, but the extended school closures have clearly taken their toll…

Snap Judgment – by Joshua Dunn

By admin on February 1, 2021 Uncategorized abc

To what extent does the First Amendment apply to students’ off-campus communications on the Internet? Do schools have the authority to punish students for offensive messages they send via social media? Four years ago, Martha Derthick and I argued that the U.S. Supreme Court would eventually be drawn into the debate over off-campus cyber-speech (see “Digital Discipline,” legal ...

The Education Exchange: More School Districts Moving to Remote-Only, Study Finds

By admin on February 1, 2021 Uncategorized abc

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EdNext Podcast: Charter Schools in the Real Wild West – by Education Next

By admin on February 1, 2021 Uncategorized abc

In many western states, charter schools operate with little regulation or oversight. Matt Ladner joins Marty West on the podcast to defend this approach to charter school policy. Ladner, a senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute, is the author of “In Defense of Education’s ‘Wild West.’” The EdNext Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Sou...

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