Month: July 2021

EdStat: A Study of 639 Charter School Applications in Four States Found That Applications That Included Plans to Hire a Management Organization Were 10 Percentage Points More Likely to Be Approved – by Education Next

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Standalone or single-site charter schools are essential to achieving a responsive mix of school options for families. Increasingly, however, single-site schools appear to suffer a higher burden of proof to justify their existence, relative to CMOs, and there might be “preferences” baked into the charter-authorizing process that keep standalone charter schools from getting appr...

EdNext Podcast: Teacher Education Reboot – An Expert Proposal – by Education Next

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Do teachers know enough about how students think and what motivates them? Daniel Willingham thinks that ed schools are not giving teachers enough useful information about how children learn. He laid out his argument in an Education Next article, “Unlocking the Science of How Kids Think.” In this episode, Dan Willingham speaks with Marty West about this problem with ...

Three Reflections on the NAEP 2017 Talkfest – by Frederick Hess

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Last week, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results were released. They mostly showed flat lines in reading and math, though scores for high-performing students were up a bit and those for low-performing students were down a bit. The results occasioned a lot of fanfare—some instructive, a lot bordering on the silly. Rather than add to the cacophony ab...

The Fix Is In

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In the News: Singapore Teens Top Global Education Ranking as US Lags – by Education Next

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The results are out from the 2015 Program International Student Assessment (or PISA), conducted every three years by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The United States ranked 25th, CNN reports, performing in line with the OECD average for science and reading but below average for math. Eric Hanushek explained “Why the U.S. Results on PISA ...