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.
Making Education Innovation Come to Life
Having taken an extended vacation the past few weeks, I returned to the United States to see that the pace of innovation in education is continuing at a breakneck pace
Choosing Blindly
How can we tolerate ignorance on something that is as critical to student learning as instructional materials?
Teaching the Teachers
Achievement Network offers support for data-driven instruction
Achievement Network offers support for data-driven instruction
Dumbing Down the GPA: It’s the Unsophisticated Bright Kid who Suffers
It is not the under-achieving students in urban centers who perpetuate the ongoing crisis in American education. They are simply doing their best to survive the challenges of family, neighborhood and circumstance. The threats come from the mindless educational potentates who have captured control of the best public schools in the country.
Implications for Policy Are Not So Clear
Commentary on “Great Teaching:Measuring its effects on students’ future earnings” By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff have carried out a remarkable study, but I suspect it will be misinterpreted. The main contribution of their research is quantifying the importance of teaching. Specifically, the authors [...]
Profound Implications for State Policy
If we are truly serious about improving student learning, we must think anew about teacher recruitment, placement, evaluation, professional development, retention, and separation.
More Evidence Would Be Welcome
Commentary on “Great Teaching:Measuring its effects on students’ future earnings” By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high-value-added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer-term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, [...]
Low-Performing Teachers Have High Costs
Chetty et al.’s evidence shows that bad teachers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income and productivity each year that they remain in the classroom. These costs are large enough that failing to address them is simply inexcusable.
Great Teaching
Measuring its effects on students' future earnings
Measuring its effects on students’ future earnings
When Education Reform Gets Personal
Confessions of a policy-wonk father
Confessions of a policy-wonk father
Do Schools Begin Too Early?
The effect of start times on student achievement
The effect of start times on student achievement
What We’re Watching: The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger
NPR’s Tiny Desk Kitchen series looks at the surprising ingredients that go into a hamburger served in a school cafeteria.
What We’re Watching: Education Reform for the Digital Era
John Chubb, Bryan Hassel, Mark Bauerlein, Eleanor Laurans, and Mike Petrilli discuss whether digital learning is education’s latest fad or its future at a Fordham Institute event held last week.
What We’re Watching: Education Reform for the Digital Era
On Thursday, April 19 from 9:00-10:30 am we’ll be watching a live webcast of the Fordham Institute’s webinar event on digital learning.
