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Month: August 2022
Low Scorers Were Declining and Higher Scorers Improving, Even Before the Pandemic, Federal Test Data Show
Positioning Adolescents in Literacy Teaching and Learning
Journal of Literacy Research, Ahead of Print. Source: Journal of Literacy
School Superintendents Head for the Exits
From Cat Videos and Cooking Tips to the History of the Punic Wars – by Michael J. Petrilli
I don’t mean to brag, but my 10-year-old son knows all about Admiral Yi Sun-sin, a 16th-century naval commander who successfully fended off several Japanese invasions of the Korean peninsula. That’s not because I’m some sort of Korean history expert or parenting genius, and it’s not because he studied it in school. It’s because I’m such a pushover when it comes to screen time ...
The Education Exchange: Test Results from Spring 2022 Show “Cause for Hope,” Especially for Youngest Students, a New Report Finds
EdNext Podcast: Health Benefits for Retired Teachers Strain State Budgets – by Education Next
In many school districts, teachers receive generous health care benefits even after they retire, but states and school districts have not been putting aside sufficient funds to pay for those promises.
Chad Aldeman joins EdNext editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss his article, “Health Care for Life: Will teachers’ post-retirement benefits break the bank?”
The...
Structural Validity of the WISC-IV for Students With Learning Disabilities
The structural validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) was evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis for a clinical sample of 1,537 students diagnosed with specific learning disabilities (SLD) by school psychologists in two large southwestern school districts.…
Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning While Evidence and Resources Are Underdeveloped – by John F. Pane
Innovators are exploring new designs for the primary and secondary education system under umbrella of personalized learning. The overarching set of practices being explored in the space is quite broad, but there is not consensus on a precise definition of personalized learning or on which component practices are essential. Practitioners and policymakers seeking to implement pe...
Lessons for State-Level Reformers in the ESSA Era – by Frederick Hess
Last week, while most of Washington’s attention was elsewhere, I was preoccupied with the release of Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned (my new book, edited with Mike McShane). It was an excuse for a bit of Bush-Obama edupalooza, what with the essay, the event, and the video. During all of this, one question came up repeatedly: How much of what we’ve learned...