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By Michael B. Horn, Daniel Curtis. Public Opinion. The Year in Public Opinion on U.S. K–12 Education Policy. A review of surveys finds Americans want schools to refocus on teaching and learning. By David M. Houston. Higher Education. It’s Still Hard to Earn Admission to America’s Top Colleges . . . and Getting Harder.
Breaking Down School Budgets - Education Next
Aug 16, 2009 — The following sections provide examples of spending-on-service findings from the three districts studied. Results. Figure 1 shows the range of per-pupil costs in District 1: electives came at a cost of $512 per pupil versus $328 per math class, $434 per English class, and $564 per class in a foreign language.
In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most - Education Next
Feb 3, 2016 — This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.”The full series will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next.. Fifty years after the release of “Equality of Educational Opportunity”—widely known as the Coleman Report—much of what James Coleman and ...
Don’t Ruin College by Making It Free - Education Next
Mar 9, 2020 — The 2020 Democratic primary has changed the debate on higher education in the United States. When Senator Bernie Sanders first proposed making public college free during his 2016 campaign, most commentators, myself included, dismissed the idea as radical and unrealistic, along with his candidacy. Just four years later, Sanders is a serious ...
Has Inclusion Gone Too Far? - Education Next
Jul 24, 2018 — Allison F. Gilmour. The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 percent or more of their school day in regular classrooms, alongside their non-disabled peers (see Figure 1).
The Flipped Classroom - Education Next
Oct 4, 2011 — The Flipped Classroom. Four years ago, in the shadow of Colorado’s Pike’s Peak, veteran Woodland Park High School chemistry teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams stumbled onto an idea. Struggling to find the time to reteach lessons for absent students, they plunked down $50, bought software that allowed them to record and annotate ...
Time to Pull the Plug on Traditional Grading? - Education Next
Jul 5, 2022 — Generally, grading attempts to distill students’ performance on what education researcher Thomas R. Guskey calls a “hodgepodge” of measures—quizzes, tests, homework, conduct, participation, extra credit, and more—rather than gauging actual student learning. The process is inconsistent at best, inequitable at worst, critics argue.
by JAY P. GREENE, BRIAN KISIDA, and DANIEL H. BOWEN. Enriching field trips contribute. to the development of students. into young men and women. who possess more knowledge. ical-thinking skills, and ex. ibit increased historical empathy.The decision to …
Ability Grouping, Tracking, and How Schools Work
Apr 8, 2013 — Ability grouping is the practice of dividing classes into small instructional groups, especially for teaching reading. According to data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the frequency of ability grouping’s use in fourth grade reading instruction rose about two and a half times, from 28 percent in 1998 to 71 ...
SAT Scores, 1985-2016 - Education Next
Mar 23, 2020 — Median SAT Scores, 1985-2016 (“Twin” results) Note: Liberal Arts Colleges listed in red. Scroll for full results. Median SAT Score of Incoming Freshmen. Then (Fall of 1985) Now (Fall of 2016) 1520. University of Chicago.