What We’re Watching: NCLB Sanctions and Student Achievement
AEI hosted a forum on No Child Left Behind, focusing on the role sanctions play in improving student achievement
What We’re Watching: How to Solve the Teacher-Pension Problem
On Thursday, Fordham hosted No Way Out? How to Solve the Teacher-Pension Problem.
What We’re Watching: Core Knowledge Curriculum in Action
The Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum, being piloted in elementary schools in New York City, gives students a broad base of background knowledge in addition to decoding skills.
What We’re Watching: Pilot Episode of EdReform News
The pilot episode of EdReform News, produced by DFER-IL, looks at the impact of school choice for African American families.
What We’re Watching: New Schools Panel on Games and MOOCs
Panel on the role that educational games and MOOCs can play in improving education and increasing student options.
What We’re Watching: Vouchers and College Attendance
Eric Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson discuss a new study of how vouchers increase the likelihood of college attendance.
What We’re Watching: Common Core Debate: Three on Three
On Choice Media, six education policy experts debated the merits of the Common Core.
What We’re Watching: TED Talks Education
PBS will be broadcasting an hour’s worth of TED talks about education on Tuesday, May 7 at 10 pm.
What We’re Watching: A Nation At Risk: 30 Years Later
Fordham and AEI created a video to recall the impact of A Nation at Risk and to reflect on what lies ahead.
What We’re Watching: Hanushek and Peterson on Teacher Salaries
Eric Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson discuss the importance of aligning teacher salaries with effectiveness.
What We’re Watching: Are the Common Core Standards the Path to a Better Educated America?
Education Next
David Steiner and Mark Bauerlein discuss whether and how the Common Core standards for English language arts will transform learning across the country.
What We’re Watching: Online Teacher Training at USC
The MAT@USC program combines interactive, web-based classes with an in-person practicum in the student’s own community.
What We’re Watching: When Spelling a Word Just Isn’t Enough
The National Spelling Bee is adding a new challenge: children will now be required to define words as well as spell them.
What We’re Watching: Blended Learning in Practice
This recent Education Sector panel focused on the possibilities and challenges of blended learning.
What We’re Watching: Getting Top Talent into the Nation’s Schools
The Center for American Progress recently hosted a discussion on strategies for getting the best people to become teachers and principals.
What We’re Watching: How Important Are School Districts?
Michelle Rhee, Russ Whitehurst, and Matthew Chingos discuss whether school districts can be levers for change to boost student achievement at a forum at Brookings.
What We’re Watching: Assessing the President’s Preschool Plan
Sara Mead and Russ Whitehurst assess President Obama’s preschool plan at a panel at the Fordham Institute.
What We’re Watching: Is Tracking and Ability Grouping Making a Comeback?
Tom Loveless discusses a recent Brown Center study on the resurgence of ability grouping.
What We’re Watching: Separate but Not Equal in New York City
Mike Petrilli appeared on Independent Sources to discuss whether New York City’s gifted and talented programs increase racial segregation.
What We’re Watching: Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Fordham has released this teaser for a new book, Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform.
What We’re Watching: Eric A. Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson on the State of the Union 2013
Eric A. Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson talk about President Obama’s State of the Union address in a discussion at the Hoover Institution.
What We’re Watching: Education – America’s Challenge
James Roldan won second place in C-SPAN’s student documentary competition with his video Education: America’s Challenge.
What We’re Watching: Build a School in the Cloud
Sugata Mitra’s TED talk on how to use cloud technology to build a learning lab for students in India.
What We’re Watching: StudentsFirst’s 2013 State Policy Report Card
Eric Smith, Tom Luna, Ulrich Boser and Rick Hess discuss the grades given to the 50 states by StudentsFirst in its state policy report card.
What We’re Watching: Paying Teachers More, Within Budget
How extending the reach of excellent teachers can help teachers and kids.
