Forging 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...
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...
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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 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....
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 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...
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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 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...
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 ArticleFive 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 ArticleOpening the Doors to Opportunity for All
Nearly a century ago, John Dewey reflected on the nature of change in his book Human Nature and Conduct: We may desire abolition of war, industrial justice, and greater opportunity for all. But no...
View ArticleResearch and the Public Prekindergarten Debate
Early learning has few detractors, but publicly supported prekindergarten has many. Among those concerned are early care and education providers themselves. Private-for-profit and nonprofit centers,...
View ArticleNAEP Puzzle: Why Does Academic Progress “Hit The Wall” in High School?
On May 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Education released the results of the most recent assessment of the reading and math skills of America’s high school seniors. Depressing reading. The bottom line...
View ArticleResearch and the Public Pre-K Debate
Early learning has few detractors, but publicly supported pre-kindergarten has many. Among the worried are early care and education providers themselves. Private-for-profit and non-profit centers,...
View Article‘Some College, No Degree’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
Earlier this month the Lumina Foundation’s annual Stronger Nation report noted that in 2013 the number of Americans aged 25 to 64 with “some college, no degree” rose about one-quarter of one percent to...
View ArticleNAEP Puzzle: Why Does Academic Progress “Hit The Wall” in High School?
On May 7, the Department of Education released the results of the most recent assessment of the reading and math skills of America’s high school seniors. Depressing reading. The bottom line is that...
View ArticleSupporting Teachers as They Grow From Good to Great
How do good teachers transform into great ones? What are the experiences, supports, and motivators that drive good teachers into continually evolving, seeking out meaningful learning experiences, and...
View ArticleMoving Schools from Toxic to Transformative
“We are real people living real lives . . .” “We’re not dangerous . . .“ “All we want is for people to see us . . .” Morehouse, a historically black, all male college in Atlanta, provided a...
View ArticleCAP/AIR Event Pushes for More Comprehensive Policies to Improve Equity in...
Twelve years after federal policy first tried to chip away at the problem of unequal access to teacher quality through No Child Left Behind, the field continues to grapple with this complex issue....
View ArticleMy Brother’s Keeper: The Urgency of Now
President Obama is calling his new initiative to help every young man of color get on the path to success, “My Brother’s Keeper.” The reference is to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. After Cain...
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