New Hampshire: GOP Plans for Voucher Expansion Before Program Starts
Ethan DeWitt of the New Hampshire Bulletin and NPR reported on the partisan divide surrounding vouchers. Republicans budgeted for 28 students but expect between 1,000-5,000...
Category : Research
The Politics and Ideology of School Choice Research
Julian Vasquez Heilig, T. Jameson Brewer, and Frank Adamson recently published an analysis of the neoliberal roots of school choice and its spillover into research...
My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education
When I served in the George H.W. Bush administration, I was Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. OERI, as it was...
Yong Zhao and William McDiarmid: Time to Rethink Standardized Testing
Two friends got together to address an important topic for readers of the blog. Yong Zhao is a much-published international scholar based at the University...
David C. Berliner: A Hug for Jennifer
David C. Berliner, one of our nation’s most honored researchers of education, shared this essay for readers of the blog. A Hug for Jennifer I met...
Kentucky: Legislature Passes Voucher Bill
The Kentucky legislature, controlled by Republicans, passed voucher legislation. The Governor, Democrat Andy Bashear, seems certain to veto it. Linda Blackford of the Lexington Herald-Leader...
Is the edTPA a Valid Measure of Teacher Quality?
Three researchers published an article in the Kappan that is highly critical of the edTPA, a test used to assess whether teacher candidates are prepared...
Paul Thomas: The “Science of Reading” Is Recycled from the Past
Paul Thomas, an experienced high school teacher who became an experienced college professor at Furman University in South Carolina, writes here about the ongoing controversy...
Julian Vasquez Heilig Refutes Jonathan Chait on Charters, With Facts
Jonathan Chait loves charters but he does not know the extensive research that refutes his ardor. New York magazine publishes his misinformed opinions without fact-checking....
Edutopia: The Ten Most Significant Education Studies of 2020
This is an enjoyable read. Edutopia identified what it calls the ten most significant education studies of 2020. Probably none of these studies made it...