Month: December 2023

Behind the Headline: White House launches $100M competition to expand tuition-free community college by Education Next

On Top of the News White House launches $100M competition to expand tuition-free community college Washington Post | 4/25/16 Behind the Headline Should Community College Be Free? Education Next | Winter 2016 Vice President Biden will announce today that the White House will award $100 million in grants to expand workforce training programs at community colleges. The programs wi...

The Secret Source of Lost Learning and Educator Burnout – by Frederick Hess

About a week ago, the Washington Post published a stinging essay on the problems with excessive paperwork in medicine. A study of 7,000 physicians found that half showed symptoms of burnout, with surveys consistently showing that doctors who spend too little time on meaningful activities are much more likely to burn out—and to go part time, leave their practice, or simply leav...

What We’re Watching: Education 20/20 – William J. Bennett – by Education Next

William J. Bennett will speak at the final event in the Fordham-Hoover Education 20/20 speaker series on June 13, 2019 at noon in D.C. Bennett argues that conservatives must rally behind a unified vision of comprehensive content and curriculum reform, and that states must take the lead in making such a vision real. Bennett served as U.S. Secretary of Education and Chairman of ...

Hard Lessons in Education Reform: The 1,000 Flowers Question – by Frederick Hess

In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, I distinguish between “big R” and “little r” school reform. My point is that reformers can get so enamored with enacting grand, proper-noun “solutions” that they shortchange the stuff that actually delivers for real kids in real classrooms. I say this not to encourage some kind of anarchistic rejection of policy change, but to highlight...

The Education Exchange: Students in Large Urban Districts Making Gains – by Education Next

Students attending school in big cities made significant gains on NAEP in the years between 2003 and 2013 but those trend lines have flattened in recent years. Paul Peterson talks with Kristin Blagg, a research associate in the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute, about what the data show, and about which districts made the greatest gains. In “Makin...

Teacher-Student Race Matching: Where The Research Is Heading – by Anna J. Egalite

A new report by Seth Gershenson sparks fresh ideas about new directions for the literature on student-teacher matching along demographic characteristics. While previous work has shown teacher-student race/ethnicity matching has a detectable impact on test scores, academic perceptions and attitudes, attendance and suspensions, gifted and talented referrals, and educational atta...