The Top 10 Education Next Blog Entries of 2017

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

Congratulations to all of our authors!

— Education Next

P.S. You can find the Top 10 Education Next blog entries of 2016 here, 2015 here, 2014 here and 2013 here.

P.P.S. You can find the Top 20 Education Next articles of 2017 here.

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