When David Tyack became my advisor in 1972, there was only a four-year age difference between us. I had chosen to pursue a doctorate in the history of education on the cusp of middle age, already married and with two preteen daughters. Over the next decade, as I completed my degree, my professional relationship with Tyack morphed into a friendship. We eventually team-taught an...
Month: September 2022
Students Need to Learn Good Habits, Even When They Don’t Seem Logical
Making School Performance Data Work for Families – by Paige Kowalski
With a swipe of our smart phone we can find the shortest route to a destination, track our heart rate, or choose a restaurant. But ask a parent to find some basic information about their child’s school and odds are they can’t. Without easily accessible information about the quality of local schools, families are left to make critical decisions about their child’s educati...
With Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, Parents and Teachers Can Focus on Changing Policies Closer to Home – by Michael J. Petrilli
The major charge against Betsy DeVos—and certainly the one that the writers at “Saturday Night Live” recently ran with—was that she doesn’t know enough about “school” to be Secretary of Education. She hasn’t been a teacher, a principal, or a superintendent. She doesn’t know how to pick a curriculum, evaluate an instructor, or write an Individual Education Plan for students with...
Writing With Wearables? Young Children’s Intra-Active Authoring and the Sounds of Emplaced Invention
Journal of Literacy Research, Ahead of Print. Source: Journal of Literacy
Why Are Fewer People Becoming Teachers?
An Open Letter to My Ed School Dean – by Robert Pondiscio
Last month, Emily Hanford of American Public Media filed a withering indictment of reading instruction in U.S. schools. Her radio documentary, “Hard Words,” exposed how much “decades of scientific research” have taught us about reading—and how little of it has reached classroom practice via teacher training. Her conclusion was simple and unsparing: R...
Mission is Everything
EdNext Podcast: An Arts Educator Wins the Global Teacher Prize – by Education Next
Earlier this year, the Global Teacher Prize was awarded to Andria Zafirakou, an arts educator at an inner city secondary school in London.
Zafirakou joins Marty West to talk about how she uses the arts to inspire the students in her school and and her plan to use the $1 million prize to launch a charity supporting arts education in the UK.
The EdNext Podcast is available on App...