Published Articles & Media
San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment
Course enrollments are a means to an end—student learning—not an end unto themselves.
Racial Disparities in School Suspensions
Future efforts at discipline reform must reflect fundamental fairness while also ensuring orderly schools and welcoming learning environments.
The Strange Case of the Disappearing NAEP
Why has NAEP abandoned its foundational assessment and embarked on a new agenda?
The NAEP Proficiency Myth
NAEP proficient is not synonymous with grade level. It is a standard set much higher than that.
Common Core’s Major Political Challenges for the Remainder of 2016
Common Core is now several years into implementation. Supporters have had a difficult time persuading skeptics that any positive results have occurred. The best evidence has been mixed on that question.
Has Common Core Influenced Instruction?
Advocates of the Common Core hope that the standards will eventually produce long term positive effects as educators learn how to use them. That’s a reasonable hypothesis. But it should now be apparent that a counter-hypothesis has equal standing: any positive effect of adopting Common Core may have already occurred.
No, the Sky is Not Falling: Interpreting the Latest SAT Scores
The SAT is not designed to measure national achievement; the score losses from 2014 were miniscule; and most of the declines are probably the result of demographic changes in the SAT population.
CNN’s Misleading Story on Homework
CNN's story relies on the results of one study that is limited in what it can tell us, but CNN even gets its main findings wrong.
