A few years ago, we started to re-imagine reading instruction, but the thought of writing a…
Month: August 2021
Hong Kong Teachers Union Decides to Shut Down
The president of the Professional Teachers’ Union, Fung Wai Wah, called the decision to shut down…
Donald Kagan on a Liberal Education
News from Yale of the death, at age 89, of Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of…
Funding Research that Is Useful and Used
In 2022, the Institute of Education Sciences will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. The Institute’s mission is…
No Excuses, Revisited
Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School by Joanne W. Golann Princeton…
Doing nothing on climate change is not an option.
In the face of so much devastation being wrought by decades of inaction, we cannot sit…
Make Transparency the Pandemic’s Educational Legacy
Third-grade teacher Cara Denison manages students in person and remotely, simultaneously, at Rogers International School in…
The Education Exchange: Pandemic Learning Loss Leaves Children Five Months Behind in Math, Four Months Behind in Reading—and that May Understate the Damage
A Senior Knowledge Expert at McKinsey & Company, Emma Dorn, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss…
Free Pre-K for Every Working Family.
I want you to imagine an America in which every working family is guaranteed free pre-K…
A Sharp Critique of Standards-Based Reform
Beyond Standards: The Fragmentation of Education Governance and the Promise of Curriculum Reform by Morgan Polikoff…