The devastating picture presented by the National Assessment of Educational Progress has occasioned a lot of discussion about what it’ll take to overcome two years of pandemic disruption, which followed a decade of stagnant academic achievement. Well, Joel Rose, the CEO and co-founder of New Classrooms, argues that the most…

Linda Darling-Hammond — the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, and routinely at the top of the leader board in the annual RHSU Edu-Scholar rankings — has been awarded the 2022 Yidan Prize for Education Research. The $3.9…

Yesterday’s midterms will have a profound effect on what happens in Washington and dozens of state capitals over the next two years, with big implications for schools and schooling. To make sense of the results, I thought I’d reach out to my old friend Andy Rotherham, co-founder of Bellwether, author…

In a polarized time, everything tends to become political and reflexively stupid. Combating that requires a lot of things. A big one is reliable, respected facts. …

As a guy who taught high school civics back in the last century, I have some admittedly old-fashioned notions about civics instruction. …

Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements and seek to identify common ground on some of the thorniest questions in education. I thought readers might enjoy…

“The nation’s report card” was released today, reporting the 2022 results for reading and math in grades 4 and 8. While I could ramble on about the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ latest outcome, I was far more interested in hearing what Marty West made of them. Academic dean for…

Michael Horn is an interesting guy. I first met him maybe 15 years ago, after he co-authored the intriguing Disrupting Class. Since that time, he’s become a prominent voice on educational technology and school reform. He’s the co-founder and fellow of the Clayton Christensen Institute, an adjunct lecturer at the…

With students shaken by more than two years of pandemic-related disruption, schools are scrambling to reconnect with students, get learning back on track, address social and emotional needs, and much more. A thread running through all this, of course, is the need for more time to instruct, support, and engage…