Month: January 2024

What We’re Watching: A 60-Second Commentary on the Democratic Presidential Candidates and Education Policy – by Education Next

Rick Hess takes a quick look at the education agendas of Democratic presidential candidates in this video produced by AEI. Joe Biden’s education agenda is the most liberal in presidential history, Hess says, but compared to other Democratic candidates, it looks centrist — even modest.   — Education Next Source: EducationNext...

Writing Under the Influence – by Christy Wolfe

The federal Charter Schools Program has played a critical role in increasing the number of charter schools across the country. Authorized in 1994, the Charter Schools Program provides operators with short-term funding to cover school startup costs, because schools cannot access per-pupil funding until students enroll. As of 2019, a school can receive up to $1.5 million over a ...

How Socrates Invented Social and Emotional Learning – by Robert Pondiscio

More than most fields and professions, education has a remarkably poor grasp of its own history. One of the reasons we are so susceptible to fads is because so few of us recognize that the Shiny New Thing is so often a recycled idea and a Ted Talk. (True story: I once witnessed a top editor of Edutopia stunned to learn that project-based learning was a one-hundred-year-old ped...

In the News: Private Schools Met With Rejection from Indiana State Board – by Education Next

In Indiana, three private schools with low grades from the state have been told that they can not accept new voucher students this fall. In a blog entry posted earlier this year, Mike Petrilli wrote about the misconception that voucher schools are unaccountable. That may have been the case decades ago, when vouchers first burst onto the scene in Milwaukee and Cleveland. Partici...