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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.
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 20 percent of a …
Sage on the Stage - Education Next
WebMay 13, 2011 · The TIMSS data comprise information on students in two grades in a number of countries, but we utilize only information on 8th-grade students in the United States. Our sample includes 6,310 students in 205 schools with 639 teachers (303 math teachers and 355 science teachers, of which 19 teach both subjects). In addition to test scores in math ...
The Bigger Picture of Charter School Results - Education Next
WebApr 18, 2022 · National Data and Analysis. We included essentially all school districts in the United States during the years 1995–2016. During this period, 608 of the nation’s approximately 12,000 districts had at least one charter school. Sixty-one percent of these districts have 10 percent or more charter enrollment, and 39 percent of these districts ...
Doing Educational Equity Right: Effective Teachers
WebMar 28, 2024 · Doing Educational Equity Right: Effective Teachers. This is the eighth in a series on doing educational equity right. See the introductory post, as well as ones on school finance, student discipline, advanced education, school closures, homework and grading. One of the ironclad beliefs among education reformers back in the day was the certainty ...
EdNext Poll - Education Next
WebEducation Next Annual Poll: Trends Through 2020. This graphic accompanies “Amid Pandemic, Support Soars for Online Learning, Parent Poll Shows: Results from the 2020 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion,” by Michael B. Henderson, David Houston, Paul E. Peterson, M. Danish Shakeel, and Martin R. West. By Education Next.
Teachers for America - Education Next
WebFeb 29, 2008 · In the provisions of No Child Left Behind, alternative licensure programs, and teacher pay plans, education reformers seek ways to improve the quality of the nation’s teaching workforce. One landmark effort to tackle this issue is Teach For America (TFA). The initiative famously launched by 22-year-old Wendy Kopp and a small cadre of allies ...
What I Learned Editing Education Next - Education Next
WebAug 30, 2023 · What I Learned Editing. Education Next. When I started as managing editor of Education Next in January 2019, the conventional wisdom was that education reform had run out of gas, or at least stalled out. Much of the Democratic Party, or at least many of its leading politicians, had backed away from previous cautious support for charter schools.
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.
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