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...
Month: July 2021
Addressing the mismatch through culturally responsive literacy instruction
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Source: Early Childhood literacy
Recognizing and leveraging the bilingual meaning-making potential of young people aged six to eight years old in one Australian classroom
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Ahead of Print. Source: Early Childhood literacy
“When Choice Really Works, It Lifts Up Everyone”
EdNext Podcast: Teacher Education Reboot – An Expert Proposal – by Education Next
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 ...
A Robust and Timely Discussion of a New Kind of Homeschooling
Three Reflections on the NAEP 2017 Talkfest – by Frederick Hess
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
Repressive Legalism: How Postsecondary Administrators’ Responses to On-Campus Hate Speech Undermine a Focus on Inclusion
American Educational Research Journal, Ahead of Print. Guided by legal, sociolegal, and higher education concepts, we use an embedded case study of university administrators at a public institution to examine how they negotiate and institutionalize principles of freedom of expression…
In the News: Singapore Teens Top Global Education Ranking as US Lags – by Education Next
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 ...