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EdNext Podcast: An Optimist’s Guide to American Public Education
"Every school has some teacher who really gets kids excited," says Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews
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EdNext Podcast: Segregation and Racial Gaps in Special Education—New Evidence from Florida
"It's rational to be worried about the stigma associated with a disability diagnosis for students who do not in fact have disabilities. ...But there's also reason to think that it's a really big problem to not give student services who really need them."
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EdNext Podcast: Daniel Willingham on Making Education Research Relevant
The problem with "business as usual" control groups
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EdNext Podcast: Keep Cameras on in Classrooms, Even after the Pandemic Ends
Like televising courtroom proceedings or putting body-cams on police officers, it adds transparency.
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EdNext Podcast: On State Standardized Testing, Flexibility Is Key
Avoid: "welcome back to school and get ready for the test tomorrow."
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EdNext Podcast: Derrell Bradford on How a Nationwide Teacher Strike Has Closed In-Person Public Schools
"Catholic schools have figured this out, parochial schools have figured this out. It's amazing what masks and market pressure can do."
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EdNext Podcast: How Remote Learning Changes Snow-Day Decisionmaking
"Think about snow hours or snow afternoons or snow breaks...Call this 'sleducation.'"
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EdNext Podcast: Parents Use Litigation as a Lever to Open Schools
Kentucky's governor shuts a Christian school while leaving strip clubs, college basketball open
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EdNext Podcast: Projections of Pandemic Learning Loss Were Too Pessimistic, a New Study Suggests
The largest and most comprehensive analysis to date of actual, rather than projected, pandemic learning loss finds math suffered more than reading.