Seattle Schools Community Forum: Juneau and HCC Grouping

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Juneau and HCC Grouping

Juneau and HCC Grouping

A thoughtful reader sent me a couple of links around the issue of grouping for highly capable students.

I first want to say - as I have said all along - if the district wants to return all HCC kids to their attendance area schools, that's fine.  As long as they do/understand several things:

• This will NOT work without extensive professional development for all teachers and principals. 
• That means money and resources.  Nearly every school would need some kind of area in the building with resources that teachers could read from and examine in order to do the differentiation that is needed. What money do they have for this work?
• I can almost guarantee they will need to bring back "Walk to Math."  Again, money and space.
• The district would have to make crystal-clear to all teachers and principals - you WILL do this work, no exceptions.  Because this is a legal obligation and no extra worksheet or reading an higher-level book will do to meet that obligation. I have absolutely no doubt that if the district does not carry out this new way of services for HCC with fidelity, that they will get sued (and the parent will win).
• From the district's own way of thinking, there is likely to be at least two self-contained cohorts, one north and one south, for the true outliers in HCC.  Question is, what will be the standards to be in CONTINUE READING: Seattle Schools Community Forum: Juneau and HCC Grouping

Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

Please join us in welcoming celebrated author and education historian, Diane Ravitch, to West Virginia!

Diane will speak about her new book, Slaying Goliath, and will help us celebrate the two-year anniversary of the 2018 teacher and service personnel strike.

The event will take place in Geary Auditorium at the University of Charleston. You don't want to miss this!

Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

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Diane Ravitch Red for Ed Celebration

My Kids' School Is a Hellhole, Why in Hell Am I Expected to Send Them Anyway? - Philly's 7th Ward

My Kids' School Is a Hellhole, Why in Hell Am I Expected to Send Them Anyway? - Philly's 7th Ward

MY KIDS’ SCHOOL IS A HELLHOLE, WHY IN HELL AM I EXPECTED TO SEND THEM ANYWAY?

It seems that every day there is a new article highlighting the environmental disgrace of Philadelphia’s aging public schools. Lead in the drinking water is reminiscent of Flint but rather unbelievable in the city that was essentially a 19th century leader in water sanitation. 

On the surface, aging infrastructure is the culprit. The drinking water is clean however it travels through lead pipes so contaminated water comes out of the faucet. The Philadelphia Water Department stands by its water quality so the onerous task is on our city, state, and school district to address what is perceived to be an insurmountable task of upgrading plumbing fixtures, particularly given the lead paint, asbestos, and mold remediation that is needed in schools throughout the district. 

While the efforts of the Green Futures Health Schools committee fostered the 2016-17 installation of “hydration stations” in SDP schools, partly to comply with the National School Lunch program protocols; this has clearly, and inexplicably, not been extended to charters occupying SDP buildings. 

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, the environmental movement ushered in legislation about water quality, toxics, and other pollutants in the 1970s. While these protections are currently being unraveled for the sake of profit; the hazards to human health remain. 

Marginalized people in the developing world contend with a range of exposures in their daily life – be it water quality, chemicals, or treatable CONTINUE READING: My Kids' School Is a Hellhole, Why in Hell Am I Expected to Send Them Anyway? - Philly's 7th Ward

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Restorative Justice: Like Most Education Measure, It Needs Resources to Succeed

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Restorative Justice: Like Most Education Measure, It Needs Resources to Succeed

Restorative Justice: Like Most Education Measure, It Needs Resources to Succeed

There's this phrase - "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" - that I see used quite often when speaking of public education initiatives especially in defense of charter schools.  And then, districts, states, the feds plunge on into initiatives, apparently hoping it will all turn out well (see Race to the Top, remember that one?).

This issue, restorative justice, is a very good example. "We've got to do something" -  because student discipline is so skewed towards two groups of students - Special Education students and Black students is the cry from many in leadership.  But the work, the actual work, falls to those in the trenches.

There is an excellent, first-person narrative on this topic from Education Week by a veteran teacher, Allison Fried, on this subject.

If You Won't Do Restorative Justice Right, Don't Do It
My former school tried its best at restorative justice. But we needed more than good intentions 

Last fall, I was physically attacked by a student while helping another teacher in their classroom. This was my fourth documented assault at my middle school, and I gave my two-month notice shortly thereafter. Teachers cannot teach, and students cannot learn, in an unsafe school.

Limiting suspension-worthy offenses and passing around a stuffed animal are no substitute for a well-run restorative justice program. Our toolbox was empty. I never had a restorative conversation with the student who physically attacked me. 

The Research

A 2018 study by Matthew Steinberg of the University of Pennsylvania and Johanna Lacoe at Mathematica Policy Research highlights several crucial CONTINUE READING: Seattle Schools Community Forum: Restorative Justice: Like Most Education Measure, It Needs Resources to Succeed

Learning Through Friendship: One Man’s Story (Part 5) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Learning Through Friendship: One Man’s Story (Part 5) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Learning Through Friendship: One Man’s Story (Part 5)

June 2017 Reunion

We had planned to have a reunion in October 2015 in Palo Alto but Yus took a bad fall and I had a pinched nerve and could not walk. We canceled. In mid-2016, Yus, Dave, Sam, and I began talking about setting another reunion date. I traveled to Pittsburgh in December and spent five days with Yus and Nancy, had dinner with Sam and Hannah, and attended a Sunday morning book club discussion of a new graphic novel. Yus and I talked a lot about a possible reunion in Palo Alto in the spring.

Those discussions continued after I returned home but became more than talk when Yus’s son Bruce volunteered to go with Yus and Sam on the trip to help his Dad negotiate the walking in airports and around my home. Had Bruce not decided to join his Dad, the reunion would not have occurred.

And that brings me to another AK reunion of octogenarians taking place in Palo Alto in June 2017.  

And what a four days and nights it was! The time we were together consisted of long conversations around meals at home and in restaurants (my daughter Janice joined us one evening), taking walks in the neighborhood and at a nearby park, sitting on the patio sunning ourselves as we conversed and in the living room in one-on-one discussions about family, friends, politics, and life in general as AKers. Bruce, the youngest of all of us, walked with us and joined in these discussions. Once a day, Yus, Sam , and I would use my phone to do FaceTime with Dave in LA to see one another and talk.

Talk about losses from both age and disease in what we can physically do—one of us is on a walker, another has a pacemaker, another uses a cane—and dealing with the emotions accompanying such losses wove in and out of our CONTINUE READING: Learning Through Friendship: One Man’s Story (Part 5) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Randi Weingarten and the UTLA Sanders endorsement. – Fred Klonsky

Randi Weingarten and the UTLA Sanders endorsement. – Fred Klonsky

RANDI WEINGARTEN AND THE UTLA SANDERS ENDORSEMENT

One of the many disasters related to the Hillary Clinton run for president – aside from the eventual election of Donald Trump – was the undemocratic way her early endorsement by the two national teacher unions, the NEA and the AFT, was forced down the throats of rank and file union members.

The endorsements of Hillary by the NEA and the AFT were made early in the primary campaign when Bernie Sanders was Hillary’s only opponent.

They were no-strings endorsements. Nothing was demanded from Hillary in return, even though Sanders’ record on education issues like charter schools was much stronger than Clinton’s.

The main argument made by the union leadership was her electability.

The eventual result demonstrated the fallacy of the electability argument. Electability continues to be used by union leaders as we saw in the early endorsement of Cook County Democratic Party Chairman Toni Preckwinkle for Chicago Mayor by the CTU. Preckwinkle was eventually soundly defeated by Mayor Lori Lighfoot six months ago.

Electable or not, the electabilty argument is used to conceal the undemocratic CONTINUE READING: Randi Weingarten and the UTLA Sanders endorsement. – Fred Klonsky

White Billionaires Cannot Buy the Charter School Debate | gadflyonthewallblog

White Billionaires Cannot Buy the Charter School Debate | gadflyonthewallblog

White Billionaires Cannot Buy the Charter School Debate

Betsy DeVos is not woke.

Bill Gates has not been to the mountaintop.

Nor is the Walton Family Foundation concerned with promoting civil rights.

So when white billionaires pour cash to charter school lobbying groups – as the Walton’s did Thursday for charter school protestors at an Elizabeth Warren rally – it isn’t exactly convincing.

Speaking at the historically black college Clark Atlanta University, Warren, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2020, was interrupted by audience members chanting charter school slogans.

She eventually met with the protestors after the rally.

Strangely enough, Warren hasn’t suggested any policy position that would adversely affect the charter schools from which the protestors hail.

Along with Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Warren has a progressive charter school platform calling for increased transparency and an end to federal funding of charters, which are paid for with CONTINUE READING: White Billionaires Cannot Buy the Charter School Debate | gadflyonthewallblog

Bill Gates Pulls Back on His K12 Ed Experimentation | deutsch29

Bill Gates Pulls Back on His K12 Ed Experimentation | deutsch29

Bill Gates Pulls Back on His K12 Ed Experimentation

Billionaire Bill Gates likes to experiment with American K12 education.

He bankrolled the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and pushed “small schools,” and spent millions on measuring teachers using student test scores.

Regarding the failure of Gates-funded education tampering, the January 15, 2019, Fair Observer notes the reality of billionaire removal from any consequences related to its purchased folly:

Because of its wealth, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has no need to apologize for its past mistakes or to feel concerned about its next round of mistakes. The article in The Washington Post sums up the foundation’s historical failures. After so many disappointing results, accompanied by the foundation’s roundly expressed indifference to the negative effects on teachers and learners or on the coherence of public educational policy, we may legitimately ask: Why does it persist in its folly?

Why persist?

Because wealth thinks it knows. Because education entities (both traditional and market-based) continue to take Gates money. Because there exists no mechanism for billionaires to be fined twice the amount of the comprehensive cost of their arrogance-initiated foolishness.

Gates sees its education efforts as (ahem) successful, though there is no confetti-laced celebration here. The message is more muted, though it is certainly no CONTINUE READING: Bill Gates Pulls Back on His K12 Ed Experimentation | deutsch29

i-Ready Sells 50-Years-Old Education Failure | tultican

i-Ready Sells 50-Years-Old Education Failure | tultican

i-Ready Sells 50-Years-Old Education Failure

By Thomas Ultican 11/23/2019

i-Ready sells digital math and English lessons to school districts. It provides diagnostic testing which recommends interventions for struggling students that it then provides. i-Ready’s pedagogy embraces competency based education (CBE) a theory promoted by the US Department of Education and blended learning theory also financially supported by the federal government. CBE is the latest name for an education theory that failed in both the 1970’s and 1990’s. Blended learning theory is an experiment with almost no research supporting it but lots of research pointing to its health risks. Students dislike i-Ready.

June 2018, I wrote “i-Ready Magnificent Marketing Terrible Teaching.” It received decent traffic for the first four days, but strangely the traffic never slowed. This year, it is my most accessed article averaging over 700 hits per month.

Curriculum Associates and Bad Education Philosophy

The Massachusetts based company Curriculum Associates (CA) distributes i-Ready and its related testing services. When founded in 1969, it was providing worksheets in support of Mastery Learning curriculum which is similar to today’s CBE. They are the same failed theories delivered by different mediums. CBE and Mastery Learning theory also go by many other names including outcome based education; performance based education; standards based education; high performance learning; transformational education and break-the-mold schools, among others.

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom and his collaborators developed what almost all teachers in America know as “Bloom’s Taxonomy.” The taxonomy was originally conceived as a method for identifying the learning objectives that test questions CONTINUE READING: i-Ready Sells 50-Years-Old Education Failure | tultican

My Breakfast with Ambassador Sondland | The Merrow Report

My Breakfast with Ambassador Sondland | The Merrow Report

My Breakfast with Ambassador Sondland

That didn’t happen. I wanted to get you to open the link.  Now I hope you will click on this link: https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-address-at-adls-2019-never-is-now-summit-on-anti-semitism

It’s just 24 minutes long, but its message about the unchecked power of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google and ‘The Silicon Six’ is critical. Moreover, he tells us what can be done.

By  the way, since this speech, Mark Zuckerberg has had a private meal with Donald Trump!

Thanks..

John

My Breakfast with Ambassador Sondland | The Merrow Report

School Integration is More Than Counting Kids by Race … | Ed In The Apple

School Integration is More Than Counting Kids by Race … | Ed In The Apple

School Integration is More Than Counting Kids by Race …

The 14th Amendment, on its face, appears to remove all barriers to equality under the law for all Americans, emphasize all.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

 For almost a hundred years the constitutionally guaranteed rights of Afro-Americans were abrogated at the highest levels. Supreme Court decision after decision shredded the guarantees of the 14th Amendment (See Lawrence Goldstone, Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 2011). In Plessy v Ferguson (1896) the court held,

“The object of the [14th] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.”

 For decades as established by the stare decsis, (precedent), “separate but equal” was the law of the land.

Finally, in 1954 the Court reversed Plessy in a unanimous decision,

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom CONTINUE READING: School Integration is More Than Counting Kids by Race … | Ed In The Apple

The NewDeal for Education: Familiar Common Core and Data Driven Reformers Shifting Education to a Workforce Pipeline. – Missouri Education Watchdog

The NewDeal for Education: Familiar Common Core and Data Driven Reformers Shifting Education to a Workforce Pipeline. – Missouri Education Watchdog

The NewDeal for Education: Familiar Common Core and Data Driven Reformers Shifting Education to a Workforce Pipeline

Before the roll-out of Common Core, 10 organizations got together in 2005 and created a “nonprofit” whose mission was about collecting and  standardizing children’s data. That organization, The Data Quality Campaign, was and is funded by Bill Gates. One of the Data Quality Campaign’s founding partners was the Alliance for Excellent Education, All4Ed.

All4Ed today announced their partnership in the NewDeal for Education with a network of partners including HP, Gates, Markle, Jobs for the Future, Aspen Institute, Joyce Foundation, Third Way,  Center for American Progress, and “180 carefully-selected state and local officials below the level of Governor, from 47 states”.  What’s this NewDeal about?  Well, read it for yourself, but we see:  School-to-Work pipeline, Workforce pathways, Workforce databadges,  Social Impact Investment and shifting education from children learning knowledge to children being trained to fill the economic needs of a global workforce.  It echoes Betsy DeVos and the Swiss workforce model that she signed us up for.  You should ask your state and local officials what the NewDeal means for your school.

Here’s an excerpt from the November 22, 2019 NewDeal for Education announcement.

All4Ed announces Partnership in NewDeal for Education

“On Thursday, the NewDEAL Forum and All4Ed launched a joint effort to develop and implement a state and local policy agenda to prepare students for college and careers. The NewDEAL Forum Education Policy Group will leverage the expertise of public and non-profit leaders to identify effective solutions to graduate more students on-track for success in the workplace. The NewDEAL is a network of 181 pro-growth, progressive state and local officeholders below the level of the Governor in 47 states. The NewDEAL Forum supports these rising leaders by  CONTINUE READING: The NewDeal for Education: Familiar Common Core and Data Driven Reformers Shifting Education to a Workforce Pipeline. – Missouri Education Watchdog

NYC Public School Parents: Has the city learned its lesson about not holding early voting in schools, and are their assurances enough? The PTA at PS 116 says no.

NYC Public School Parents: Has the city learned its lesson about not holding early voting in schools, and are their assurances enough? The PTA at PS 116 says no.

Has the city learned its lesson about not holding early voting in schools, and are their assurances enough? The PTA at PS 116 says no.

As discussed on this blog earlier, 33 public schools were selected as early voting centers this fall in NYC, out of a total of 61 voting sites- though there were none selected in Queens and only one public school in the entire rest of the state.  One problem is that state election law allows other buildings to opt out from being a poll site, but does not give public schools the same authority.

Another problem was the fact that for some reason, the city proposed 168 schools out of a total of 222 potential sites to the Board of Elections earlier this year.

Putting early voting sites in schools caused serious security concerns as well as the loss of lunchrooms, auditoriums and gyms in many schools for a full school week. According to Brigid Bergin of Gothamist, there will be four elections in New York City next year.  If early voting continues to be held in schools, this would cause a total of 20 days in which these conditions would prevail, including during one week when schools are required to administer the state tests.

Because of the widespread criticisms of many parents and concerns expressed by principals about the risks and disruption caused by early voting in schools, the Mayor has apparently learned a lesson, and now city officials say that they will make an effort to see that no school is an early voting venue in the future, according to Gothamist/WNYC:

““We’ve heard from parents, we’ve heard from principals and we think there is a better way,” Ayirini Fonseca-Sabune, the city’s Chief Democracy Officer....If you look at the borough of Queens, no schools were used for early voting... We see cultural institutions, we see community centers, we see CUNY. Those are the institutions that should be used for early voting,” she added.

But this is not good enough for many parents, including those at PS 116.  Though they support early voting in general, their children suffered through the first round of early voting this year, and they want schools legally barred from being identified as early voting sites altogether.

Below is the testimony of Erica Rand Silverman, the PTA president of PS 116, given at a joint Assembly/Senate hearing on early voting on November 20. If you'd like to learn more and/or join the campaign to end early voting in NYC public schools, you can email their PTA at ps116ptamembership@gmail.com

NYC Public School Parents: Has the city learned its lesson about not holding early voting in schools, and are their assurances enough? The PTA at PS 116 says no.

Thoughts on #Red for Ed | Live Long and Prosper

Thoughts on #Red for Ed | Live Long and Prosper

Thoughts on #Red for Ed

RED FOR ED RALLY IN INDIANAPOLIS – NOW WHAT?

Thousands of teachers, parents, and public education advocates rally in Indianapolis
November 19, 2019 

How many of the 15,000 – 20,000 Indiana teachers, ESPs, parents, and supporters of public education who rallied at the Capitol on Nov. 19, and the additional thousands who “wore Red for Ed” in their local communities, will fall back into the pattern of voting for the supermajority candidates who brought public school teachers, and public schools…

• the loss of seniority and lessening the value of experience or advanced degrees on salary schedules

• declining salaries (when adjusted for inflation)

• the loss of the right to collective bargain things like class size, prep time, and supervision

• the loss of due process

• the overuse and misuse of standardized testing

• the diversion of public education funds to charter and voucher schools

• teacher evaluations and school grades based on test scores

• and, beginning in 2020, Governor-appointed majority (8 out of 10) on the state school board as well as a Governor-appointed state superintendent of public instruction.

THIS STATE REALLY HATES PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

The current make-up of the state government is blatantly disrespectful of public CONTINUE READING: Thoughts on #Red for Ed | Live Long and Prosper

THIS WEEK Education Research Report

Education Research Report

THIS WEEK 

Education Research Report

New College Scorecard contains program-level debt and earnings data, more inclusive graduation rates

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 13h

Thanks to a groundbreaking redesign of the College Scorecard, students can now find customized, accessible, and relevant data on potential debt and earnings based on fields of study (including for 2-year programs, 4-year degrees, certificate programs, and some graduate programs), graduation rates, and even apprenticeships. For the first time ever, students will now have access to information on t

Skipping breakfast linked to lower grades

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 16h

Students who rarely ate breakfast on school days achieved lower grades than those who ate breakfast frequently, according to a new study. Researchers, from the University of Leeds, have for the first time demonstrated a link between eating breakfast and GCSE performance for secondary school students in the UK. Adding together all of a student's exam results, they found that students who said they

NOV 21

New What Works Clearinghouse Report: Passport Reading JourneysTM

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d

The What Works Clearinghouse recently reviewed the research on Passport Reading Journeys TM and its impact on adolescent readers. The results are summarized in an intervention report released today . Passport Reading Journeys TM is a supplemental literacy curriculum designed to help improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, word study, and writing skills among struggling readers in grades 6–12.

Most Teachers Access Academic Research, But Few Use It to Inform Practice

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d

More than nine in 10 educators access academic research about education, but just 16% use it to inform classroom practice, according to new research by the nonprofit Jefferson Education Exchange. Based on surveys of educators from all 50 states and the District of Columbia , the research also found that a majority of teachers have opinions about what education-related topics should be studied, an

Estimating Individual Guidance Counselors' Effects on Educational Attainment

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d

Guidance counselors are a common school resource for students navigating complicated and consequential education choices. I provide the first causal estimates of individual counselors’ effects on high schoolers, using quasi-random counselor assignment policies in Massachusetts. This study find that counselors vary substantially in their effectiveness at increasing students’ high school graduation

K-12 Engineering Education

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

State education leaders are making strides in their efforts to incorporate technology and engineering into K-12 science standards and instruction. A new Policy Brief analyzes results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in Technology and Engineering Literacy and the questionnaires that accompany it. The brief also explores state policies and practices that can continue boosting st

NOV 20

Student Outcomes in Middle Schools Participating in the Presidential Youth Fitness Program

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Obesity and lack of physical activity among children and adolescents are public health problems in the United States. This Presidential Youth Fitness Program (PYFP) evaluation measured program implementation in 13 middle schools and its effect on physical education practices, student fitness knowledge, and student physical activity and fitness levels. PYFP, a free program with the potential to po

Student Outcomes in a Sample of Middle Schools Participating in the Presidential Youth Fitness Program

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Obesity and lack of physical activity among children and adolescents are public health problems in the United States. This Presidential Youth Fitness Program (PYFP) evaluation measured program implementation in 13 middle schools and its effect on physical education practices, student fitness knowledge, and student physical activity and fitness levels. PYFP, a free program with the potential to po

Nutrition Education in US Schools

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Download the research brief pdf icon [PDF - 1 MB] on Opportunities for Nutrition Education in Schools . Schools play an important role in helping students establish healthy eating behaviors, by providing: Nutritious and appealing foods and beverages. Consistent and accurate messages about good nutrition. Ways to learn about and practice healthy eating. 1 Nutrition education is a vital part of a c

Making Time for School Lunch

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Download the research brief pdf icon [PDF - 463 KB] on . The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 external icon required changes to the nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program external icon and School Breakfast Program external icon . 1 As a result, schools are serving more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, as well as reducing the sodium content of the meals. 2–4 However,

America's Reading Crisis

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Strong reading skills propel us to achieve success in school and advance through postsecondary education, get a job and keep it, increase our level of earnings, and more. Conversely, difficulty with basic reading skills and comprehension can throw one obstacle after another in our path. In fact, research shows that a lack of literacy proficiency can have compounding negative impacts on future lif

The value of higher education is tied to its relevance in their work and lives

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Complete report What do Americans value in their education? We haven’t really known, because too often the consumers of higher education have been absent from the conversation. So the Strada Education Network partnered with Gallup to ask more than 340,000 individuals about their experiences with education and work after high school. The Education Consumer Value Equation gives them a voice in what

Building an education-to-employment system centered on adult learners

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d

Complete report As the future of work continues to evolve, more adults will face career transitions that demand the acquisition and demonstration of new skills, creating cycles of learning and earning throughout life. Despite the rapid changes in work, the pathways to employment through education and hiring have not made as significant or important a leap. Traditional pathways to employment were

13 reports an online growth mindset program administered to 9th grade students.

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

The Mindset Scholars Network has announced that initial findings are now available for the 13 studies funded through the National Study of Learning Mindsets Early Career Fellowship. The fellowship is a project of the Mindset Scholars Network and the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center , with funding from the Bezos Family Foundation . While many of these studies are ongoing, e

Give Schools an Honest Grade, Say School Superintendents

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

Give schools an honest grade. That's the message to school critics from school superintendents who recently published an infographic urging the public to take a closer look at the real story about school performance. Giving Schools an Honest Grade It's tempting to believe that schools were once better and that students used to learn more. But the data tell a different story, say leaders of the Na

NOV 19

Barriers high schools face when implementing, enforcing concussion laws

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

All 50 U.S. states enacted concussion laws between 2009-2014 to mitigate the consequences of concussion. While details of the laws vary from state to state, all state laws address three main factors: concussion education; removal from play after suspected concussion; and return-to-play requirements. A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy in the Abigail W

Boredom is on the rise for adolescents, especially girls

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

"I'm so bored!" It's a typical complaint by teens in every era, but one that's growing more common for U.S. adolescents, especially girls. New research at Washington State University has found that boredom is rising year after year for teens in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades, with greater increases for girls than boys. "We were surprised to see that boredom is increasing at a more rapid pace for girl

Improving the predictive power of standardized test scores

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

IMAGE: The dynamic measurement model estimates future learning potential by fitting a curve to test scores over time. These test scores make up a learning curve, which often looks like a... view more Credit: Robert Ewing, ASU A standout essay, high grade point average and stellar standardized test scores are sometimes not enough for college admissions. The ongoing college admission scandal unders

Bullying Online or by Text, Bullying Components, and Student Perceptions of School Discipline in 2016–17.

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

In school year 2016–17, more students reported being bullied about their appearance and race when being bullied with both power imbalance and repetition (39 percent and 11 percent, respectively) than when being bullied with either power imbalance or repetition but not both (30 percent and 6 percent, respectively); female students reported being bullied online or by text at a rate three times that

Call to Loosen School Advertising Restrictions Overlooks Real Costs to Students

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

The Empire Center recently released a brief making the persuasive legal case that current policy and legal guidance from state education officials in New York severely restricts the ability of school districts to allow any form of commercial advertising. Because of this, the brief argues, it is more difficult than it should be for these districts to raise revenues from advertising, sponsorships,

NOV 18

Recruit to Reject? Harvard and African American Applicants

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

Over the past 20 years, elite colleges in the US have seen dramatic increases in applications. Using detailed data on Harvard University that was unsealed as part of the SFFA v. Harvard lawsuit this study shows that Harvard encourages applications from many students who effectively have no chance of being admitted, and that this is particularly true for African Americans. African American applica

NOV 15

Recent trends in adult literacy in the United States

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 7d

Between 2012/14 and 2017, the average scores for U.S. adults with less than a high school education increased in literacy, while, for adults with a high school education, they decreased in both literacy and numeracy. The National Center 

Education Research Report