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Peter Meyer wrote a new blog post: Field Notes: My Piece of Kafka   16 minutes ago · View I was sorry not to make Education Next’s top 40 education books of the decade.  (The polls are still open; vote for three.)  That could be because I haven’t written it yet!  Details, details. If I were to write an education book, it would be called, Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry: Life on the School [...]

Education Next wrote a new blog post: Legal Beat: Should Courts Be Weighing In On the Math Wars?   1 hour, 30 minutes ago · View “In February 2010, for the first time, a state judge overturned a school district’s choice of a high-school math curriculum,” Josh Dunn writes in a new “legal beat” article posted on the Ed Next website. (The article, “ 2+2=Litigation,” will appear in the Fall 2010 issue of Ed Next.) As Josh explains in the article, the [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Grade Configuration Matters   1 hour, 32 minutes ago · View Jonah Rockoff talks with Education Next about his new study, which finds that when students move to a middle school, their academic achievement declines substantially relative to students who continue to attend a K-8 school. Listen to the Podcast For more on this topic, please see “ Stuck in the Middle ,” by Jonah E. Rockoff and Benjamin [...]

Joshua Dunn wrote a new blog post: 2+2=Litigation   1 hour, 33 minutes ago · View Podcast: Josh Dunn talks with Education Next . In February 2010, for the first time, a state judge overturned a school district’s choice of a high-school math curriculum. In May 2009, the Seattle school board in a 4–3 vote adopted the “Discovering” math curriculum. The Discovering series, which the Seattle district already used in elementary and middle [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Math Wars Have Their Day in Court   1 hour, 44 minutes ago · View Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about a state court ruling overturning a decision by the Seattle school board to adopt a progressive math curriculum.
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For more on this topic, please see “2+2=Litigation,” by Joshua Dunn, which appears in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next.

admin wrote a new blog post: Study Finds Students in K-8 Schools Do Better than Students in Stand-Alone Middle Schools   1 day ago · View Education Next News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Naush Boghossian          (818) 209-2787          Larson Communications Jonah E. Rockoff             (212) 854-9799          Columbia University Cambridge, MA — A new study that analyzes New York City public schools’ achievement data reveals that test scores of students who enter stand-alone middle schools experience significant drops in their math and English scores on standardized tests compared [...]

mwest wrote a new blog post: How Middle Schools Hurt Student Achievement   1 day, 4 hours ago · View Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on a new Education Next study showing that, at least in New York City, attending a standalone middle school rather than a K-8 school has a big negative impact on student achievement and attendance rates.  Recently I had the chance to interview the study’s lead author, Columbia Business School professor Jonah Rockoff.  Here are a [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Stuck in the Middle   1 day, 11 hours ago · View Podcast: Jonah Rockoff talks with Education Next . Middle school. The very words are enough to make many Americans shudder with memories of social anxiety, peer pressure, bad haircuts, and acne. But could middle schools also be bad for student learning? Could something as simple as changing the grade configuration of schools improve academic outcomes? That’s what some [...]

Paul wrote a new blog post: What do Americans think of the Nation’s Schools? How Widespread is the Support for Charter Schools?   2 days, 1 hour ago · View Education Next ( Ednext) and Phi Delta Kappan ( PDK) both released their annual polls last week. (Disclaimer:  I am among those responsible for the Ednext poll).   Many of the questions asked are very different in the two polls, so direct comparisons of their findings are limited to only a couple of questions. But when it comes to [...]

admin wrote a new blog post: Poll Finds Growing Support for Charter Schools   2 days, 1 hour ago · View Marty West and Paul Peterson discuss the 2010 Education Next-PEPG Survey. The survey finds a modest uptick in support for charter schools overall, but a large increase in support in the minority community. Parents who live near a charter school are more supportive of charters than the public at large (and know more about how charters [...]

Frederick Hess wrote a new blog post: The HFT Is All About Professional Growth… Not   2 days, 2 hours ago · View (This post also appears on Rick Hess Straight Up .) I’m always surprised at how often teacher unions claiming to be agents of professionalism reflexively slash at measures (like responsibility for results and differentiated pay) that are part and parcel of most professions. Even so, it’s not every day that you see a union savaging an effort [...]

Education Next wrote a new blog post: Which Are the Top Books of the Decade? Vote Now!   3 days ago · View The first issue of Education Next was published in February 2001. In honor of our 10th anniversary, we are launching a poll to determine the best books of the past decade, as identified by our readers.
To vote, please go to our Ed Next poll page.

Education Next wrote a new blog post: Ed Next Poll: Top Books of the Decade   3 days ago · View The first issue of Education Next was published in February 2001. In our inaugural issue, we described our goal as “giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas, and responsible arguments.”  Over the past ten years, much has changed in the world of education policy, and in particular the “war of ideas” today is very [...]

Mark Bauerlein wrote a new blog post: The New and Old of Digital Learning   3 days, 4 hours ago · View Did you know that students today “learn in at least four ways that are very different than pre-digital era students”?  Because of their facility with digital media and the Internet, young people have the capacity to think, inquire, explore, communicate, and participate in ways that make the Old Days—say, pre-1995—look downright backward. That’s the contention [...]