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The Summer 2017 Issue of Education Next Is Here! – by Education Next

The Summer 2017 cover article helps parents make a seemingly life-altering decision for their child: to redshirt or not to redshirt. An analysis of the available research finds that redshirting your kindergartener, or holding them back a year to give them more time to develop physically, socially, or emotionally, can actually do more harm than good. This issue’s research ...

Behind the Headline: Most High School Seniors Aren’t College Or Career Ready by Education Next

On Top of the News Most High School Seniors Aren’t College Or Career Ready, Says ‘Nation’s Report Card’ NPR | 4/27/16 Behind the Headline Rethinking the High School Diploma Education Next | Winter 2015 The results from last year’s NAEP exam for 12th graders have just been released and NPR’s Anya Kamenetz takes a close look at the most import...

Educational Choice, Not School Choice, Making Moves in Florida – by Michael B. Horn

While Florida garners national attention as the site of tax credit scholarships captivating Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, a lesser-known example of choice in education in the state could be turning into a movement. Florida is one of the homes of “course access” or “course choice” legislation that allows public dollars to follow students to pay for an individual course of...

School, European Style

Educational Pluralism and Democracy by Ashley Rogers Berner Harvard Education Press, 2024, $35; 224 pages. As reviewed by Jonathan Zimmerman Once upon a time, schools in America were plural in structure. Taxpayers funded Protestant, Catholic, and nonsectarian schools. Then along…

Cultural Activity Matters – by Jay P. Greene

Some people have been puzzled as to why I’ve been studying how cultural activities, like visiting an art museum or seeing live theater, affect students. Why don’t I do what almost everyone else in our field does and just study how various interventions affect math and reading test scores? Well, I’ve been making the argument for a while now that there is remarkably little evide...

Trump Happened, Part Deux – by Frederick Hess

Back in November, in the wee hours of election night, I penned an Education Next column titled “Trump Happened.” I observed: Trump had no coattails, but the result is that a Republican president is going to take office with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress for the first time since 1928. Yep, 1928. What does this mean for education? For starters, the...

In the News: US Fertility Rate Falls to ‘All-Time Low,’ CDC Says – by Education Next

CNN reports on a new data brief from the National Center for Health Statistics showing that the general fertility rate for 2018 “fell to another all-time low.” In “The Baby Bust Goes To School” (Summer 2019), Education Next executive editor Michael J. Petrilli assessed what the ongoing decline may mean for public education and reform in the United States...