If this era is to become a Golden Age of Educational Practice, we need successful, evidence-based practices—to the extent that they actually exist—to spread far and wide. Many ideas for how to get educators to use such practices are inherently top-down or “supply side” approaches—build tools or products or school models on top of the evidence base, and then market them to scho...

This post originally appeared on EdSurge In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. It’s an observation that has won attention and admirers such as New York Times columnist David Brooks. But what has been left unsaid is how our curr...

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/* custom css */ .tdi_2_360{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_535{ vertical-align: baseline; } In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms, enthusiasms, and fads that permeate education. In a field with more than its share...

Parents often rely on school shopping websites to find out more about schools they are considering for their children.  A new study looks at how the content and layout of these websites influence how parents judge schools. Ira Nichols-Barrer, a Senior Researcher at Mathematica and one of the authors of the study, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss his findings....

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On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, at noon, Politico and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health will host a forum on key health and education policies that are likely to be enacted by the new Congress. EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West will join Bob Blendon, Sheila Burke and Richard Frank as participants in the live webcast. — Education Next Source: EducationNext...

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Nathan Glazer died last week at his home in Cambridge, Mass. at the age of 95. In the obituary that ran in the Washington Post, Harrison Smith described him as an urban sociologist and scholar of ethnicity, race and education whose intellectual odyssey took him from the socialist left to the neoconservative right to a label-defying position near the political center. He continu...

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