Thoughts on Education Policy

The New York State legislatures agreed on the final 2018 state budget over the weekend, which includes a new "free tuition" progra...

If you haven't yet, you should read this letter from hundreds of educational researchers opposing Betsy DeVos's nomination as Secre...

For those of you outside academia, " face validity " is a fancy term academics use that simply means that something makes sense up...

Today I continue the series examining the ways in which poverty influences academic performance.   Part 1 explored the achievement gap and ...

Today marks the start of a new multi-part series on poverty and academic performance.  I expect to post two or three new parts most weeks in...

A few thoughts that occurred to me this week: -Here's an interesting piece on  Teaching students how to combat traumas of poverty on t...

I read, seemingly everywhere about how poverty does or doesn't influence students' performance in schools (including   NY Times on p...

Notes on a few smaller stories this week: -A new CPRE report  find that most "teachers focused on what students do (procedural) rathe...

I haven't written much the past couple years, so I'd like to write a bit about the biggest change I've seen in the education deb...

A new survey by the UFT finds pretty big discrepancies between the perception of training by NYC Teaching Fellows versus traditionally trai...