Education Next

The New York Times science section has a cover article reporting about how school districts are dealing with complaints about the supposed health risks of wireless networks. The Summer 2019 issue of Education Next tackled this same issue with an article by Kenneth Foster that we published online in April. It concluded: “need we worry about the health risks of environmental exposure to radio frequency energy? The evidence we have accumulated so far would suggest not.”

National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program recently reported on how Florida’s “mandatory retention” program, requiring that third graders who can’t read repeat the grade, has spread to a total of 19 states. Education Next has covered this issue over the years in a series of articles and blog posts, including “Getting Ahead by Staying Behind: An evaluation of Florida’s program to end social promotion,” by Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters.