Asians on Education: What Poverty?
All this talk in education about poverty being the major reason for poor academic achievement and performance got me thinking: Is it really just poverty? No doubt it plays an important role....
View ArticleThe Privatization of Public Education
The New York Times‘ article recently listed the educational background of the major players in the current ed reform movement. David Guggenheim, producer and director of the widely acclaimed and...
View ArticleTunnel Vision Reform
Education researcher Esther Quintero lucidly dissected the inherently illogical foundations of current reform efforts in the Shanker Blog, entitled The Un-American Foundations of Our Education Debate....
View ArticleFinally Getting School Reform Right
The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) has presented a new paper that appears to understand what is needed to improve American education, titled Standing on the Shoulder of Giants: An...
View ArticleToward a Holistic Approach to Education
Despite continued pessimism about the state of American public education, there is reason for hope. Why? Within the past year or so, there appears to be a small but noticeable shift in public discourse...
View ArticleRichard Rothstein: How To Fix Our Schools
Richard Rothstein, research associate at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), has written a lucid article on How to Fix Our Schools, which I have reprinted in its entirety below. Essentially, he...
View ArticleThe Long-term Impact of Early Childhood Education on Student Outcomes
Does going to a high-quality early education program help young disadvantaged children do significantly better at the age of 28? That is the question Reynolds, Temple, Ou, Arteaga, & White sought...
View ArticleThe Most Valid and Reliable Teacher Assessment (Hint: It’s Not VA)
What’s the point of performance-based teacher evaluations? A few years ago, one of my former graduate professors casually suggested, “Let the children grade the teachers. It’s just as reliable as any...
View ArticleA Divided Public: 2012 PDK Poll on Public Education
Uncertainty and disagreement characterized a large portion of the general public’s attitudes toward education issues, according to the recent 2012 Phi Delta Kappan’s annual Gallup poll. Among the major...
View ArticleThe Impact of Demographics on 21st Century Education
This article was originally published in Society (May/June 2013, Vol. 50, Issue 3). The final publication is available at link.springer.com The National Academy of Sciences’ (2007) report, Rising Above...
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