Five Big Ideas from the Equity Project Research Roundtable
It was like being in a seminar led by a world-class professor—only in this case there were 28 professors, among the top scholars in educational equity. Faculty from Brown, Georgetown, and Stanford...
View ArticleWhen Good Intentions Meet Social Realities
Last month Dale Russakoff wrote a fascinating article in The New Yorker about school reform in Newark, New Jersey. It is a saga of what can happen when educational reformers, with the best of...
View ArticleWhat About ‘The Fifth’ Who Won’t Graduate from High School?
This year, for the first time in the U.S., high school graduation rates may top 80 percent—good news, right? But another change in 2014 could pose employment and mobility obstacles for the other 20...
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Measuring Up in Mathematics: What’s the Right Measure?
Last month, new reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) presented two views of performance among 12th graders. The first, released May 7, shows a sharp contrast in the...
View ArticleThe Uncertain Promise of Classroom Observations
This is the first of two blog posts about two new studies from AIR researchers and collaborators on the use of classroom observations for teacher evaluation. Anyone who has spent time looking in on a...
View ArticleClassroom Observations: Rating the Raters
This is the second of two blog posts about two new studies from AIR researchers and collaborators on the use of classroom observations for teacher evaluation. Most press coverage about new teacher...
View ArticleThe “Sink or Swim” Reality: Learning From Turnaround Principal Preparation
With Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s announcement of the Excellent Educators for All initiative earlier this month, putting excellent principals at the helm of high-need schools remains critical....
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Proficient in One State May Not Mean Proficient in Another (Never Mind the...
As public debate over the use of Common Core standards in U.S. schools gathers steam, parents and policymakers need to know more about current proficiency standards for reading, mathematics, and...
View ArticleParent Engagement Is the Real Key to Meaningful School Satisfaction
A recent Gallup poll asked parents if they were satisfied with the education their children were receiving. Seventy-five percent were “completely or somewhat satisfied.” That’s up eight percentage...
View ArticleForging the Fragile Teaching Link
Education reforms, an unstoppable phenomenon of the elementary and secondary education world, invariably come with strengths and weaknesses. Too often, those strengths are undermined and weaknesses...
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