This article describes the ways in which a class of 7- and 8-year-old children used writing to communicate. Using Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics as a theoretical frame, I examine what functions these messages served, how functions varied from child to…
Month: January 2023
Comparing the Effects of Analysis-of-Practice and Content-Based Professional Development on Teacher and Student Outcomes in Science
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Gifted and Talented Programs Don’t Cause School Segregation
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A Common Core Curriculum Quandary – by Michael J. Petrilli
Eureka Math Director Jill Diniz teaches a demonstration lesson on exponential decay to grade 9 students from Lafayette Parish School System.
One of the most ambitious educational improvement projects in recent years was the adoption of new, more rigorous college- and career-ready academic standards by more than 40 U.S. states. Though the Common Core label has suffered greatly f...
Will ChatGPT Unflip the Classroom?
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The classroom was first flipped by the advent of the printing press five centuries ago, when it became possible for students to absorb content at home. The Lyons Danse macabre at the Pri...
The Education Exchange: A Simple and Complete Solution to the Pandemic Learning Loss Problem
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Exchange Replay: A Survey of Teachers by Teachers – by Education Next
Today we bring you a replay of one of the most popular episodes of The Education Exchange from 2018.
How do teachers feel about the changes taking place in American education? In this episode, Evan Stone, the co-founder and CEO of Educators for Excellence, joined Paul E. Peterson to discuss his organization’s survey, “Voices from the Classroom: A Survey of America’...
Universities Gone Innovating – by Michael B. Horn
Simmons College in Boston made headlines last week with the news that two online graduate degree programs it launched less than five years ago are on track to generate more tuition revenue than its 30 other graduate programs combined and nearly as much as its undergraduate offerings.
The programs, in nursing and social work, are powered by 2U and provide another showcase of ju...
The Spring 2017 Issue of Education Next is Here! – by Education Next
The Spring 2017 issue, which is now live on our website, features the first-ever analyses of the views of nationally representative samples of parents that compares perceptions of charter, private and district schools. The first study finds that charter parents are considerably more satisfied with their schools than are district-school parents, though private-school parents are...
In the News: Could the L.A. School Board’s Balance of Power Tip Pro-Charter? – by Education Next
Voters go to the polls today in L.A. to choose three school board members. As Howard Blume notes in the Los Angeles Times, the school board has traditionally leaned anti-charter, but supporters of charter schools have a good chance to win a majority of seats on the board.
Sarah Favot analyzes the election for The 74 here.
In an article in the Fall 2016 issue of Education Next, ...