Obama’s NCLB Waivers: Are they necessary or illegal?
Education Next talks with Martha Derthick and Andy Rotherham
Education Next talks with Martha Derthick and Andy Rotherham
Unions and the Public Interest
Is collective bargaining for teachers good for students?
Is collective bargaining for teachers good for students?
Academic Value of Non-Academics
The case for keeping extracurriculars
The case for keeping extracurriculars
If Nothing Ever Changes, Then the Teaching Profession Will Never Change
When I heard that President Obama had proposed for $30 billion dollars to be directed toward teachers, I got excited at what this money could do to help develop quality evaluation systems or create innovative pay structures to encourage talented teachers to stay in the classroom.
The Flipped Classroom
Online instruction at home frees class time for learning
Online instruction at home frees class time for learning
Ed Next Book Club: Peg Tyre’s The Good School
Podcast: Mike Petrilli talks with Peg Tyre about her new book, which offers advice to parents concerned about school quality.
The New Superintendent of Schools for New Orleans
A conversation with John White
A conversation with John White
Getting At-Risk Teens to Graduation
Blended learning offers a second chance
Blended learning offers a second chance
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Photos: Additional images of Performance Learning Centers (PLCs) in Hampton and Richmond, Virginia.
The Bruce Randolph Rorschach Test
Poor Bruce Randolph School. First, President Obama praises the school. Then Diane Ravitch cited the school as an example of “statistical legerdemain.” And now, Paul Tough uses Randolph as an example of excuse-making and says students “deserve better.” Who’s right?
Cautionary Tale
Authors recount NCLB’s tortured history
Review of Schoolhouse of Cards by Eugene Hickok and Collision Course by Paul Manna
High Schoolers in College
Dual enrollment programs offer something for everyone
Dual enrollment programs offer something for everyone
Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness
Can classroom observations identify practices that raise achievement?
Can classroom observations identify practices that raise achievement?
Assessing New York’s Commissioner of Education
With Steiner’s sudden resignation, will the state continue its Race to the Top?
With Steiner’s sudden resignation, will the state continue its Race to the Top?
Catholic Ethos, Public Education
How the Christian Brothers came to start two charter schools in Chicago
How the Christian Brothers came to start two charter schools in Chicago
New Schools in New Orleans
School reform both exhilarated and imperiled by success
School reform both exhilarated and imperiled by success
Does Whole-School Performance Pay Improve Student Learning?
Evidence from the New York City schools
Evidence from the New York City schools
Pyrrhic Victories?
The following essay is part of a forum, written in honor of Education Next’s 10th anniversary, in which the editors assessed the school reform movement’s victories and challenges to see just how successful reform efforts have been. For the other side of the debate, please see A Battle Begun, Not Won by Paul E. Peterson, [...]
The Middle School Mess
If you love bungee jumping, you’re the middle school type
If you love bungee jumping, you’re the middle school type
Teaching Math to the Talented
Which countries—and states—are producing high-achieving students?
Which countries—and states—are producing high-achieving students?
High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do
Remarkably little has been written about the state of citizenship education in our schools. Pollsters/analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett have delivered an invaluable service in their new study “High Schools, Civics, and Citizenship: What Social Studies Teachers Think and Do.”
Stuck in the Middle
How and why middle schools harm student achievement
How and why middle schools harm student achievement
Accountability Comes to Physical Education
Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.
Advocating for Arts in the Classroom
Academic discipline or instrument of personal change?
Academic discipline or instrument of personal change?
EdNext Poll Shows Civil Rights Groups Out of Touch on Charters
Support for charters among the public at large has remained relatively stable since 2008. Among African Americans, however, support has increased from 42 percent to 64 percent. Meanwhile, Hispanic support for charters has increased from 37 percent to 47 percent. It is puzzling, then, that a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations last week issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration’s current emphasis on chartering as a strategy to turn around low-performing schools.
