Education Next

"Concentrated in New York’s poorest communities, scores of high-performing charter schools enroll the neighborhood’s children. They are Black and Latino and, in the main, from low-income families." bit.ly/4ACPDb3

"The authors do a skillful job of explaining why TQM and its heirs have yielded uneven results, and how they depend on things like the clarity of goals, the predictability of workflows, and the precise measurement of outcomes." bit.ly/4jq6Kqp

ICYMI: The Great Youth Sports Heist Comes for the East Potomac Golf Course. Trump’s push to transform an affordable public venue into a “World Class Championship Golf Course” shows how we’ve stolen sports from kids. bit.ly/4ii4QWm

"How well do institutional leaders learn from the lessons of the past? If school districts are the institutions in question, the answer is: not well at all." bit.ly/4iGqVOJ

"States want to track scholarship money—Is it equitable? How much is going to public schools?—and had hoped they could require SGOs to report on it. The draft regs make it clear they can’t." bit.ly/4sytqaj

“Maybe he started the war to distract people from the new ballroom he’s building to replace the East Wing of the White House,” said a girl who took a break from doodling. “He loves construction projects.” bit.ly/4zZziMq

Clint Bolick, the 44th Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, joins the Education Exchange to discuss the St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy case before the U.S. Supreme Court bit.ly/3W6qVjD

What kinds of research should earn the focus of IES? Kenneth Shores and Amber M. Northern debate in the latest EdNext forum. bit.ly/4Acuy6g

The Midterm “Blue-nami” Is Good for the Country but Bad for Ed Reform: Democratic victories portend tough fights ahead over school choice and more. bit.ly/4sEA1A0

Lessons from the First Great Enrollment Decline: School systems must learn how to thrive without constant growth. bit.ly/4iGqVOJ

"Initial estimates from advocates are that homeschoolers and microschoolers in 22 states should be eligible to participate." bit.ly/4i5Oj9f

"However, the set of causal factors in play is actually much more complex, and a close look at testing data reveals that pandemic learning declines are not highly correlated with closure length." bit.ly/4yrJgG6

"To better understand and address the challenges of academic freedom and campus free speech, additional surveys of students and faculty are needed." bit.ly/4ykZ1hL

"This research indicates that AI substantially harms learning for half of all students, what the researchers call the 'Generative AI penalty,' and provides no discernible benefit to the other half." bit.ly/4rLyCaJ

"I have long believed that the school—more than the classroom or system—is the unit of change in reform and that school culture is a critical driver of improvement." bit.ly/4z8MAX0

"If Treasury tries to narrow the scope for public schools, there’d be good reason to ignore it, because the law gives public and private schools the same standing." bit.ly/4sytqaj

"Over the last ten years, Colorado has compiled an impressive losing streak before the Supreme Court in religious liberty and free speech cases." bit.ly/4jRWcR5

Kenneth Shores and Amber M. Northern debate what kinds of research the Institute of Education Sciences should prioritize. bit.ly/4Acuy6g

“That’s not exactly true nowadays. The president bombed Iran without congressional authorization. He said it’d all be over in a couple weeks. It’s been 8 months.” bit.ly/4zZziMq

Richard Weissbourd and Kiran Bhai review "Restoring Childhood: How to Set Kids Free in the Age of Anxiety" by Peter Gray for EdNext. bit.ly/3UilZrh