Students utilizing a suburban school choice program in Boston have shown strong academic and behavioral outcomes for many years. New research digs into the promising data. fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/commentar…

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Derrell Bradford, the president of 50CAN, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss a new coalition called No More Lines that seeks to end residency requirements for public schools. Listen now. fordhaminstitute.org/national/resou…

Students need both surface-level and deeper learning, writes Laurence Holt. But because the latter is harder for schools to impart, it may simply be absent for several grades. Schools must fix this in the classroom, and tutoring, done right, may help. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

The case for curriculum is, in part, the case for making the classroom teacher’s job doable by the teachers we have, writes Robert Pondiscio—not, as Donald Rumsfeld might have put it, the teachers we wish we had or hope to have someday. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

.Michael Petrilli concludes his 8-part “doing educational equity right” series with a twist: a look at 3 ways that schools are doing educational equity wrong. Among them: by tying teachers’ hands without good reason.

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“Cross-partisanship” is two or more sides agreeing on the same policy outcome for disparate reasons. How much does this differ from bipartisanship, asks Checker Finn? And what does any distinction mean for education policymakers? fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

Last week, Daniel Buck asked conservative teachers to DM him to vent their frustrations. 200 responded to express not just frustration, but also hope, humor, fatalism. The upshot? We’ve made teaching impossible. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

“Cross-partisanship” is two or more sides agreeing on the same policy outcome for disparate reasons. How much does this differ from bipartisanship, asks Checker Finn? And what does any distinction mean for education policymakers? fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

Lengthy school closures were especially hard on high achievers, writes Brandon Wright. A World Bank report examining PISA scores contained this counterintuitive finding about learning losses in math. We don't know its causes, but do know some implications. edadvance.substack.com/p/school-closu…

Students utilizing a suburban school choice program in Boston have shown strong academic and behavioral outcomes for many years. New research digs into the promising data. fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/commentar…

Students need both surface-level and deeper learning, writes Laurence Holt. But because the latter is harder for schools to impart, it may simply be absent for several grades. Schools must fix this in the classroom, and tutoring, done right, may help. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

The case for curriculum is, in part, the case for making the classroom teacher’s job doable by the teachers we have, writes Robert Pondiscio—not, as Donald Rumsfeld might have put it, the teachers we wish we had or hope to have someday. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

.Michael Petrilli concludes his 8-part “doing educational equity right” series with a twist: a look at 3 ways that schools are doing educational equity wrong. Among them: by engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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What do TIMSS and PISA have in common? A recent study suggests there may be more than you think. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

A study looks at an effort to recruit and retain teachers. It finds that offering financially-strapped prospective teachers funds in the months before they would enter the classroom appears to increase the number of educators in the short- and mid-term. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

Conservatives, by all means, keep fighting for school choice—but don't forget to balance that drive with other values, writes Mike Petrilli, including fiscal responsibility and fairness. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…

Lengthy school closures were especially hard on high achievers, writes Brandon Wright. A World Bank report examining PISA scores contained this counterintuitive finding about learning losses in math. We don't know its causes, but do know some implications. edadvance.substack.com/p/school-closu…

Last week, Daniel Buck asked conservative teachers to DM him to vent their frustrations. 200 responded to express not just frustration, but also hope, humor, fatalism. The upshot? We’ve made teaching impossible. fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…