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April 9, 2024
…and school system leaders be willing to take it on? Join AEI Senior Fellow Robert Pondiscio, StandardsWork’s Barbara Davidson, TNTP’s Kristen McQuillan, Orlando Riddick of the Houston Independent School District,…
March 14, 2024
In a dispatch over the weekend, the New York Times took note of the rise of “super strict schools in England,” marked by “strict routines and detentions,” silent corridors, and “zero-tolerance” policies for even…
March 7, 2024
In 2002, I became a fifth-grade teacher at the lowest-performing public school in the South Bronx, New York City’s lowest-performing school district. A mere 16 percent of PS 277 students…
January 19, 2024
Since A Nation at Risk, Education Reform Efforts Have Mostly Stopped at the Classroom Door Executive Summary Decades of education reform have left policymakers, educators, and students alike fatigued and unimpressed….
October 6, 2023
…to fare better? I can think of few who can speak more thoughtfully on this topic than Robert Enlow, the CEO and president of EdChoice (launched in 1995 as the…
September 22, 2023
I’ve come to bury Lucy Calkins, not to praise her. Columbia University’s Teachers College announced this month what once seemed unthinkable: It’s “dissolving” its relationship with Calkins, sending the controversial literacy…
September 18, 2023
A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the…
September 18, 2023
…requires that Congress speak clearly before a department secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy,” said Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion. Despite the defeat, Biden has doubled…
August 24, 2023
An unmistakable fault line is emerging between much of public education and many of those it serves, particularly parents, on transgender issues. Put bluntly, a strong majority of Americans—57 percent…
July 13, 2023
…of both houses of Congress. As Chief Justice Roberts articulated in the majority opinion in the case, “Our precedent—old and new—requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department Secretary can unilaterally alter…