Thoughts on Education Policy

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...

A few brief notes on some smaller stories this week: -A lot of people seem to be discussing the  new report  released yesterday finding th...

Nick Kristof's column the other day about the lack of interaction between Academia and the public sure ruffled some feathers.  That...