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WEBEducation Exchange: The Blog. When districts use unanticipated revenue from their states sensibly, it helps student achievement. By Paul E. Peterson. Old School with Rick Hess. It’s a Rick v. Rick debate about whether we’ve entered a new era of schooling. By Frederick Hess. Education Next Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Google ...
To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them
WEBAug 29, 2023 — Suggested citation format: D’Orio, W. (2023). To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them: Collaborative methods for handling misconduct make their way to the classroom. Education Next, 23 (4), 50-55. For more, please see “ The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2023.”.
The Educational Value of Field Trips - Education Next
WEBSep 16, 2013 — Jay P. Greene joined EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the benefits of field trips, including how seeing live theater is a more enriching experience to students, on the EdNext podcast. The school field trip has a long history in American public education. For decades, students have piled into yellow buses to visit a variety of ...
How Schools and Teachers Can Get Better at Cultural Competence
WEBAug 6, 2020 — The opportunity is now for districts to address the reality of bias, stereotypes, and cultural differences for cultural competency. While Covid-19 and preparing for another school closure is necessary, so is the importance of cultural competency. If districts forfeit the opportunity to address injustice, the damage could be catastrophic.
Has Inclusion Gone Too Far? - Education Next
WEBJul 24, 2018 — Allison F. Gilmour. The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 percent or more of their school day in regular classrooms, alongside their non-disabled peers (see Figure 1).
Busting the Myths About Year-Round School Calendars
WEBOct 25, 2022 — Myth #2: The main goal of year-round calendars is to help students learn. Most public conversation about balanced calendars assumes that they are designed to help students learn. In fact, over the past 50 years, a major reason districts have adopted balanced calendars is to address overcrowding and save money.
The Lucy Calkins Project - Education Next
WEBMay 17, 2007 — That educator is Lucy McCormick Calkins, the visionary founding director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Begun in 1981, the think tank and teacher training institute has since trained hundreds of thousands of educators across the country. Calkins is one of the original architects of the “workshop” approach to teaching ...
In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most - Education Next
WEBFeb 3, 2016 — This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.”The full series will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next.. Fifty years after the release of “Equality of Educational Opportunity”—widely known as the Coleman Report—much of what James Coleman and ...
What I Learned in 23 Years Ranking America’s Most Challenging …
WEBMar 10, 2021 — Jay Mathews. Signature charter school in Evansville, Indiana was number one on the 2020 Challenge Index. When I invented the annual Challenge Index rankings of American high schools 23 years ago, I considered them just a stunt to publicize a book I had written. My book, about why the most admired schools made so few demands on average and below ...
How to Empower Every Student to Talk in Class—and Why It Matters
WEBDec 21, 2021 — Plan 2-3 “discourse moves” to engage all students in the discourse; encourage students to talk to each other rather than the teacher. These moves might include things like wait time, a quiet pause while students synthesize their thoughts and prepare to speak; batch call, where a teacher calls …