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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…Give,” features a young Black girl who became an activist after her friend is murdered by a police officer. In the course of his research on “primal beliefs,” Robert Pondiscio…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…137–65, https://doi.org/10.1162/ edfp_a_00207. 2. Michael A. Gottfried, “Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement,” Urban Education 54, no. 1 (2015): 3–34, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085915618709; Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes, “The Importance of…
May 12, 2025
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
Last week, I had the privilege of delivering keynote remarks at Marquette University Law School’s Lubar Center for a conference focused on redirecting K-12 education reform toward classroom teaching. Inspired…
March 28, 2025
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the…
March 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
…is now ranked 16th in the country for fourth-grade reading—up from 50th in 2019. In this webinar, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley will join AEI’s Robert Pondiscio and…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
Around the turn of the millennium, Florida was widely regarded as a pace-setter in education reform. Led by then-Governor Jeb Bush, the Sunshine State implemented an outcomes-driven agenda focused on prioritizing literacy, holding…
November 8, 2024
It’s Time for Conservatives to Reclaim Our Place in Ed Reform
As the results of the election came into focus Tuesday night, Chuck Todd made a keen observation on NBC: Republicans’ biggest gains among Hispanic voters came in Florida and Texas, states that…
October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
…Latino applicants? Is Yale using “holistic admissions” to circumvent the law and micro-manage the racial makeup of the student body? Are some selective colleges using Chief Justice Roberts’s “essay loophole”…
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
…Conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet wrote: “Pluralist society is free society exactly in proportion to its ability to protect as large a domain as possible that is governed by the informal,…
April 11, 2024
The “Case for Curriculum” Is about Reducing Teachers’ Workload
Last weekend, I gave a talk at the U.S. ResearchEd conference in Greenwich, Connecticut, on “The Case for Curriculum,” based on a paper I wrote for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which was published this week at The…