A Half Century of Student Progress Nationwide - Education Next
WEBAug 9, 2022 · Contrary to what you may have heard, average student achievement has been increasing for half a century. Across 7 million tests taken by U.S. students born between 1954 and 2007, math scores have grown by 95 percent of a standard deviation, or nearly four years’ worth of learning. Reading scores have grown by …
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.
Take Away Their Cellphones - Education Next
WEBAug 2, 2022 · Take Away Their Cellphones. So we can rewire schools for belonging and achievement. Doug Lemov. After successive school years disrupted by shutdowns, isolation, and mass experiments in remote teaching, educators returned to school in Fall 2021 to find that our classrooms and students had changed. In …
The Costs of Cutting School Spending - Education Next
WEBAug 4, 2020 · On average, a $1,000 reduction in per-pupil spending reduces average test scores in math and reading by 3.9 percent of a standard deviation and increases the score gap between black and white students by roughly 6 percent. A $1,000 reduction also lowers the college-going rate by about 2.6 percent.
What We Know About Career and Technical Education in High …
WEBOct 10, 2017 · What We Know About Career and Technical Education in High School. Brian A. Jacob. Career and technical education (CTE) has traditionally played an important role in U.S. secondary schools. The first federal law providing funding for vocational education was passed in 1917, even before education was compulsory in every state.
The Grade-Level Expectations Trap - Education Next
WEBMay 12, 2020 · In a 2012 study conducted by ACT, researchers tracked math test results from tens of thousands of students to calculate their math skills and relative chances of reaching grade-level expectations in the 8th and 12th grades. Students below grade level in math in 4th grade had just a 46 percent chance of …
Charter Schools Go to College - Education Next
WEBJun 29, 2021 · The price: $595 per year, per high school. With this expanded transparency, a growing number of institutions are beginning to cooperate and form explicit partnerships with charter schools and networks. KIPP has agreements with 97 institutions to recruit, support, and share data about its students.
Why Most Teachers Get a Bad Deal on Pensions - Education Next
WEBMay 16, 2017 · Why Most Teachers Get a Bad Deal on Pensions. Chad Aldeman. Kelly Robson. States and school districts spend more than $50 billion each year on teacher pensions, the keystone in teacher compensation packages. In theory, they provide a generous and secure pot of gold at the end of a teacher’s career, which serves as an incentive to stay on the job.
Education and Economic Growth - Education Next
WEBFeb 29, 2008 · Education and Economic Growth. Even before and certainly ever since the 1983 release of A Nation at Risk by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, national economic competitiveness has been offered as a primary reason for pushing school reform. The commission warned, “If only to keep and improve on the slim competitive edge we ...
Computer Science for All? - Education Next
WEBJun 22, 2021 · New York City committed to making the subject available at every K–12 school by 2025. New rules such as these helped drive about 186,000 students to take Advanced Placement computer-science tests in 2020, nine times more than in 2010. A 2020 report from code.org found that 47 percent of the …
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