Common Core
The Education Exchange: Common Core Adoption Hurt Student Performance in Science, Social Studies, a New Study Finds
Standards for math and reading had negative spillover effects on other subjects
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The Education Exchange: Philanthropist of the Year Bill Oberndorf Explains State-Based Strategy for Expanding School Choice
Gains among frustrated minority parents: "choice allows them to take their kids where they want them to be."
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The Education Exchange: The Trouble With Critical Race Theory
"That we would teach our children in schools, in elementary schools to focus on their racial differences, I think, is a recipe for disaster," says author Jason Riley.
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The Education Exchange: Detroit School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti on How He Changed Three Quarters of the District’s Principals
"The board has to know that they're hiring a reformer," he says. "I think they wanted someone that was not afraid to implement change."
Courts and Law
The Education Exchange: Bishop of Charleston Joins Historically Black Colleges in Legal Challenge to South Carolina Ban on Pandemic Aid to Private Schools
NAACP sides with Pitchfork Ben Tillman: "so opposed to school choice, that they are willing to minimize the history of racism in South Carolina," a lawyer says.
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The Education Exchange: “The Only Way We’ll Have Economic Development in Some of the Developing Parts of the World Is To Improve the Schools”
Yidan Prize winner Eric Hanushek on human capital
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The Education Exchange: In Miami-Dade, 75 Percent of Students Are Enrolled in Choice Options
"Choice closer to where students live is the best type of high-quality choice," says Superintendent Carvalho
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The Education Exchange: Supreme Court to Weigh Whether Maine Can Exclude Religious Schools
"It's religious discrimination... and it's unconstitutional," says lawyer Michael Bindas, explaining the First Amendment issue in Carson v. Makin.
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The Education Exchange: Mask-Wearing Mandates Are Based on “Pathetic” Lack of Data, a Johns Hopkins Doctor Warns
"This recommendation for every three-year-old in America to wear a mask with such universality and vigor is disproportional to any science to support it," says Professor Marty Makary
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The Education Exchange: Results of the 2021 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion
Schools are less popular than police or the post office
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The ‘Success Sequence’ Can Help Schools Bridge Our Divides
Survey finds strong backing for teaching about value of degree, job, marriage, children—in that order.
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
Don’t Ruin College by Making It Free
Threats to quality and innovation outweigh benefit of increased access.
The Case for (Quality) Homework
Why it improves learning, and how parents can help
The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2021
The pandemic and race dominate the discussion—for a second year.
