Governance and Leadership
President Obama’s Real Message
The President’s real message on education reform will be delivered early next year, when Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes the first round of Race to the Top grants.
Governance and Leadership
Trench Warfare on the Board of Ed
I was the infamous “rogue” board member, the person that school board associations give seminars about.
Governance and Leadership
When It Comes to Charter Schools, What Do Americans Really Care About?
A look at the latest Ednext poll convinces me that the charter school movement needs to do one and only one thing to succeed—prove that charters can be effective in the classroom.
Governance and Leadership
Principals and Teachers Unaware That Courts Defer to Schools When It Comes to Discipline
Courts have given school authorities broad powers over student discipline. So why do students...
Governance and Leadership
A Modest, and Perhaps Naïve, Proposal
Yesterday the Board of Education for the city of Los Angeles voted to allow private operators to run up to one third of the district’s public schools.
Governance and Leadership
Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.
More than anyone else who comes to mind in American public life, Edward M. Kennedy ascended from reprobate to icon, from an object of criticism, even ridicule, to statesman.
Governance and Leadership
What Is to Be Done (by the U.S. Department of Education)?
As the education blogosphere turns its attention from Secretary Duncan’s Race to the Top fund to his Investing in Innovation fund, economist Eric Hanushek offers his take on what federal education policy can and cannot accomplish.
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State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
To Teach Better Writing, Don’t Ban Artificial Intelligence. Instead, Embrace it.
By inviting ChatGPT into the classroom instead of locking it out, schools can push students toward independent thinking in a way that doesn’t signal mistrust.
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The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
To Teach Better Writing, Don’t Ban Artificial Intelligence. Instead, Embrace it.
By inviting ChatGPT into the classroom instead of locking it out, schools can push students toward independent thinking in a way that doesn’t signal mistrust.
How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
Can schools narrow the gap?
Take Away Their Cellphones
… So we can rewire schools for belonging and achievement
Don’t Ruin College by Making It Free
Threats to quality and innovation outweigh benefit of increased access.
