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How to Improve Teaching After the Pandemic
It’s wholly possible for schools to figure out how to leverage staff more effectively; it’s just not the way teachers’ work has traditionally been organized.
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New Federal Money is Coming to Schools. There Are Other Options for Spending it Than Hiring Lots More Staff.
Try tutoring, time, technology, or other new ideas instead.
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Performance Pay for Principals Pushed Less-Effective Ones to Leave, a New Study Shows
Highly experienced principals tended to leave their jobs after North Carolina changed its compensation system.
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Let schools, not district offices, decide how to spend some federal aid
Pushing dollars directly to individual schools would increase transparency, public engagement
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Give a child a book, or teach her to read?
Decisions about using federal funding are best made at school level.
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The Government Is Paying Public School Parents Billions of Dollars to Keep Their Children Home
Family would lose $409 a month in Pandemic-EBT benefits by moving 3 children to in-person from remote
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With Federal Relief Dollars on the Way, Districts Face Big Decisions
Reduce class sizes, lengthen the school year, provide tutoring—or let principals decide?
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Will 2020 Nurture Transformation, or a Return to Normal?
To last in the long term, new processes have to show they're better than old ones
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A Biden Presidency Promises Tens of Billions More Dollars For K-12 Education. The Trick Is Making Sure It Buys Something Worthwhile.
Covid relief money, more Title I spending would top priority list if Democrats win
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End Seat-Time Funding and Strike A New Grand Bargain
Tie money to whether students are learning
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The Education Exchange: High School Grade Inflation “Really Dramatically Increased,” ACT Researcher Finds
"A potential unintended consequence of the test-optional movement"
Putting Teachers on the Ballot
Raises for teachers, fewer charters when educators join the school board
Choice Reconsidered
Rethink school choice to avoid either-or thinking and instead ask how expanding options might help meet the needs of students and families and empower educators.
Stanford Summer Math Camp Defense Doesn’t Add Up, Either
Flawed, non-causal research that the proposed California framework embraces
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
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The Education Exchange: High School Grade Inflation “Really Dramatically Increased,” ACT Researcher Finds
"A potential unintended consequence of the test-optional movement"
Putting Teachers on the Ballot
Raises for teachers, fewer charters when educators join the school board
Choice Reconsidered
Rethink school choice to avoid either-or thinking and instead ask how expanding options might help meet the needs of students and families and empower educators.
Stanford Summer Math Camp Defense Doesn’t Add Up, Either
Flawed, non-causal research that the proposed California framework embraces
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
