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EdNext Podcast: How Districts Can Make Smart Ed-Tech Purchases – by Education Next

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Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates, visits the podcast to give some insider tips on how school districts can get the most out of education technology and avoid paying too much for it. Read his full article, “How to Avoid Getting Ripped Off by Ed-Tech Vendors.” The EdNext Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Soundcloud, Stitcher and here every ...

EdNext Podcast: The Grade-Level Expectations Trap and the Post-Coronavirus Reopening – by Education Next

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The co-founder and chief executive officer at New Classrooms, Joel Rose, joins Education Next Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss Rose’s new article “The Grade-Level Expectations Trap: How lockstep math lessons leave students behind”—and its implications for the post-coronavirus return to school. “We shouldn’t kid ourselves into thinking that bef...

Test Optional Offers Benefits but It’s Not Enough – by Dominique Baker

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A growing number of colleges and universities—including state systems of higher education such as the University of California and Indiana University—are weighing the role of standardized-test scores in the admissions process, typically citing concerns that the tests disadvantage low-income students and students of color and that the scores add little beyond high-school grades ...

A Rosy Vision for the Public Schools – by Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education by John Merrow The New Press, 2017, $25.95; 320 pages. As reviewed by Chester E. Finn Jr. Don’t be misled by the provocative title and subtitle, which might lead one to expect in these pages a back-to-the-future, Diane Ravitch–like defense of the education status quo—and which likely account for the book’s fawnin...

The Education Exchange: A Federal Right to a Basic Minimum Education? – by Education Next

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The co-leader of the Eversheds Sutherland Business and Commercial Litigation team, Rocco E. Testani, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a recent decision from the Sixth Circuit in the Gary B. v. Whitmer case. The court ruled that “substandard outcomes” in Detroit’s public schools violated a Constitutional right to a basic education for students, going against d...