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Formative Assessments that Fulfill Their Promises
Learning from four ways a quickwrite can go wrong
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Can Computer Coding Be Used to Teach Values? This Scholar Thinks So
The difference between "playpens" and "playgrounds"
Courts and Law
Suits Challenging Book “Banning” May Be Better Politics than Law
School boards can’t suppress ideas they dislike but do have “broad discretion”
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Why It’s So Tough to Get the Data Educators Want
“Data gaps” bedevil early childhood, school spending, postsecondary outcomes, and tutoring interventions.
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San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment
Course enrollments are a means to an end—student learning—not an end unto themselves.
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Surprise Advice from Two Left-Liberals: Give Up on Schools as Solution to Inequality
Conservatives might want to pay attention, too
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The Education of Bernie Nussbaum
“Everything I have today I owe…to the New York City public schools.”
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Work Instead of School: A Better Approach for Our Lowest-Performing Students?
A compromise between dropping out and staying in school would allow teenagers to move forward into the world of work, while remaining connected to the school system.