22+ hour, 50+ min ago  (1747+ words) In the small town of Walden, in a high mountain park in northcentral Colorado, Superintendent Amy Ward knows her families. She knows that 64 percent of children in Jackson County live below the poverty line. She knows which ones go home…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1300+ words) The College Board has phased in a new scoring system that has inflated student results on nine of the most frequently taken AP exams. The share of students receiving the top score of 5 on these exams has jumped by an…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (850+ words) For a time, that's exactly what he did. He lectured and led discussions. His U. S. Government students arrived in his classroom with enough background knowledge to handle challenging readings. At the end of every unit, they produced five-paragraph essays that required them…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (346+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (304+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (201+ words) What is disparate impact analysis? What are the main criticisms? Additionally, the decision read into the Civil Rights Act an idea that had never been there before. When it was passed by Congress and signed by the president, discrimination meant…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (475+ words) This is entirely false. AP Exam questions are not easier than in the past, nor are they harder. The exams themselves have not changed. Well-established equating processes ensure the difficulty of AP Exams remains consistent from year to year. So…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1779+ words) And yet a look inside K3 classrooms reveals surprising variation in exactly how these letters and sounds are taught. Along with the many research-based methods in use, there's another practice taking hold, and at great cost to students: over-teaching. "You do…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (866+ words) Paul Banksley sounded furious. I'd never heard the iconic vacuum salesman-turned-22nd Century Skills impresario like this. The avid TED Talker and founder of Tomorrows Are for Tomorrow is, after all, famed for his relentless good cheer. "I'm being harassed by…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (284+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...