Do Piano Teachers Need to Know How to Play the Piano?
The Common Core standards will be a great challenge for America’s teachers. Our public schools are asking teachers to help students reach standards that are far above the standards that they have achieved themselves.
What Are the Right Schools of Experience for Teachers in New Schools?
As innovation increases in education in the years ahead, the way we prepare some teachers may need to change as well.
More Reasonable Responses to My WSJ Piece
There’s been a 50% increase in the teaching workforce, but we have not seen improved results. Some people try to explain this by blaming special education and English Language Learners, but they’re wrong.
Capturing the Dimensions of Effective Teaching
Student achievement gains, student surveys, and classroom observations
Student achievement gains, student surveys, and classroom observations
Can Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching?
Evidence of systematic growth in the effectiveness of midcareer teachers
Evidence of systematic growth in the effectiveness of midcareer teachers
The Opportunity to Create More Champion Teachers
Far from replacing our teachers, a blended-learning environment holds the potential of making the job more accessible for more individuals. It provides the opportunity to create more champions.
Behind the Headline: At Hallway, a Start-Up for High School Students By High School Students
On Top of the News At Hallway, a Start-Up for High School Students By High School Students Washington Post| September 6, 2012 Behind the Headline Game Changer Education Next| Fall 2012 A new education technology start-up called Hallway is being launched by students at an elite Virginia high school (TJ), reports Steven Overly in the [...]
Maintenance of Inefficiency
School district officials who have attempted to do more with less have been stymied by federal maintenance-of-effort requirements for special education.
No Shock as Peru’s One-to-One Laptops Miss Mark
All too often advocates for education technology have extolled its benefits without recognizing that technology alone will not transform education.
A New Type of Ed School
Linking candidate success to student success
Linking candidate success to student success
Teacher Evaluations Found to Improve Midcareer Effectiveness
When teachers in Cincinnati were evaluated rigorously, student performance on math tests improve
Worms for Dinner
Travel offers cultural enrichment for teachers
Travel offers cultural enrichment for teachers
Dithering and Delay in New Jersey Denies Students Important Schooling Options
States are right to be concerned about how to best regulate virtual charter schools, but blocking or delaying the option of full-time online schooling isn’t the right tact to take.
Gates Foundation Steps Up with Investments in Next-Generation Learning
It is exciting to see a foundation step up and take some risks to reinvent learning to create dramatically better and lower-cost learning experiences for all students.
What We’re Watching: Teacher of the Year Gets Laid Off
Sacramento’s teacher of the year just lost her job as result of budget cuts in a district that mandates layoffs according to seniority, not performance.
The 411 on Digital Learning
Here are our favorite Education Next articles and blog posts on digital learning.
What We’re Watching: A Blended Learning Catholic School
Seton Partners teamed up with a Catholic school in San Francisco to create blended learning classrooms. Here’s a look at the first year.
It Will Take Leadership to Transition to Digital Age in Education
What if we were to channel our inner Hanna-Barbera, and visualize what public education should look like in the digital age?
Confessions of a Former Luddite
Not so long ago, I doubted that computers, cell phones, and the internet would make any more difference in American education than television had.
How to Push for Reform without Alienating Teachers
For all of its victories, the school reform movement finds itself in a pickle. To succeed in creating world-class schools and raising student achievement, it needs teachers to feel motivated, empowered, and inspired. And yet, many teachers are down in the dumps.
Behind the Headline: Grand Test Auto
On Top of the News Grand Test Auto: The End of Testing Washington Monthly| May/June 2012 Behind the Headline Future Schools Education Next | Summer 2011 In a special issue of the Washington Monthly, Bill Tucker writes about “stealth assessment,” the use of formative assessments built into the learning process which allow teachers to keep [...]
Not All Teachers Are Made of Ticky-Tacky, Teaching Just the Same
The true import of the Chetty study
The true import of the Chetty study
Financially Sustainable Career Paths for Teachers
New career paths for teachers send a clear, sustainable message that schools value teaching excellence and their great teachers’ positive impact on students, peers, and their profession.
What We’re Watching: Is Teaching an Art or a Science?
Dan Willingham discusses the science of teaching, and considers whether and how basic science can inform teaching.
Why Steve Jobs Would Have Loved Digital Learning
In the wake of Steve Jobs’ passing, many wrote about the statements he made throughout his adult life about how to improve the U.S. education system. Some noted that for much of Jobs’s life, he had, ironically perhaps, been skeptical of the positive impact technology could make on education.
