Holt argued that when it comes to measuring the student-learning outcomes of various ed-tech programs, the results often only apply to the 5 percent of students who “used the program as intended. The ...

On a Friday morning in early March, about 100 students at Washington Leadership Academy (WLA), a public charter secondary high school in the District of Columbia, gathered in the assembly hall for a ...

In his recent Education Next article, Paul Peterson claims that Advanced Placement (AP) Exams are being “dumbed down.” He even goes so far as to state that College Board has “admitted” the exam ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

“All the things.” “All the crazy things.” “Too much leeway and free-for-all.” That’s how educators in Idaho, Maryland, and New Jersey describe technology use in their schools—and that’s just regarding ...

Scaling choice in the Sunshine State is found to be at least 11 times more cost effective in improving public school student performance than simply spending more Nearly 15 years ago, I stepped into a ...

For many years, education researchers have puzzled over a common phenomenon known as the “fadeout effect”—that is, that the benefits of education interventions, such as early childhood enrichment ...

The disruptive technology of our age will change many things. What schools teach kids should not be one of them. Frederick Hess What does AI mean for what schools should teach? The mantra of our age ...

Brandeis University, located outside Boston, has endured its share of financial hardship recently that has resulted in staff cuts, the resignation of its president, and the need to draw money from its ...

Standardized tests form the bedrock of school accountability systems and are a primary source of information for the public and policymakers alike. Over the past two decades, these tests also have ...

Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated ...

The debate over critical race theory in K–12 schools took center stage in 2021 during the Virginia gubernatorial election. Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin heavily criticized CRT during his ...