A few weeks back, before my recent break from RHSU, I ran a “confession” about personalized learning, penned by Amplify CEO Larry Berger. Larry’s funny, fascinating piece provoked a ton of reaction. One of the many who reached out in response is Joel Rose, CEO of New Classrooms, who shared a pithy, thoughtful response that seemingly spoke for many who took La...

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The results of the TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) were released on Tuesday. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2017/2017002_timss_2015_results.pdf The performance of U.S. fourth graders was stagnant, but eighth grade students showed some improvement in math and science over the past four years, Emma Brown reports in the Washington Post. (On the NAEP exam, the...

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The 2017 EdNext poll reported a steep drop in support for charter schools, with only 39 percent of the public supporting their formation—a drastic change from 2016, when 51 percent of the public supported charters. After the poll results were released, however, Frederick Hess and Amy Cummings at the American Enterprise Institute wondered if this dip could have been “a statisti...

When the National Assessment of Education Progress results are released on Tuesday, reporters, educators, and policy wonks will have a lot to digest. Over the past several weeks, I’ve examined recent trends at the national, state, and local levels. First let me review the highlights, then identify seven stories to watch when the new data go live. • After big increases in the la...

About a dozen big cities are at this moment trying to hire new school superintendents, Lauren Camera notes in U.S. News, Los Angeles, Washington, Houston, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Seattle are just a handful of the big cities looking to fill one of the most important jobs on their payroll – that of the school superintendent. Also on the hunt: Columbus, Ohio; Newark, New Jer...

In an op-ed in the New York Daily News, RiShawn Biddle and Jeremy Lott argue for a new approach to boosting the number of high-quality teachers in our schools: “right-to-teach” laws. They write States artificially limit teacher supply by making aspiring educators get degrees in education that have little to do with improving the chances of children succeeding in co...