The Top 10 Education Next Blog Entries of 2017

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Every year we publish a list of the most popular entries on the Education Next blog as determined by readership. The list spans topics from federal education policy to teacher evaluation and includes contributions from scholars at national think tanks and universities, researchers, consultants, and policy experts. Here they are:

1.		The $7 Billion School Improvement Grant Program: Greatest Failure in the History of the U.S. Department of Education? By Andy Smarick 01/20/2017
2.		A Rorschach Test for Bias in Education Scholarship By Frederick Hess 02/14/2017
3.		Top Education Policy People and Organizations on Social Media 2017 By Michael J. Petrilli 08/31/2017
4.		One More Time Now: Why Lowering Class Sizes Backfires By Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel 03/21/2017
5.		Chronic Absenteeism: An Old Problem in Search of New Answers By Brian A. Jacob and Kelly Lovett 07/31/2017
6.		What Teens Want From Their Schools By Amber M. Northern and Michael J. Petrilli 07/10/2017
7.		The Don’t Do It Depository By Morgan S. Polikoff 07/27/2017
8.		Why the Proficiency-Versus-Growth Debate Matters for Assessing School Performance By Matthew M. Chingos 01/19/2017
9.		Why Do Private School Teachers Have Such High Turnover Rates? By Kirsten Schmitz 04/20/2017
10.		Do Principals Really Think All Teachers are Effective? By Jason A. Grissom 07/06/2017