Education
Building Success for New York’s English Learners
(Versión española langauge abajo / See below for Spanish language version) Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Farina face an important opportunity to improve educational options for English Language Learners by developing high-quality offerings that ...
Challenges Facing Illinois’ Bilingual Preschool Mandate
Starting in July 2014, Illinois will require bilingual preschool education in all public schools where preschool is offered. This new mandate, through regulations adopted by the Illinois State Board of Education in 2009 following approval by lawmakers, will make Illinois the first state offering statewide bilingual preschool, and has been widely touted by advocates as a model worthy of replicating in other states.
Teaching American History with the Common Core State Standards
Students across the United States demonstrate an alarmingly poor grasp of the fundamentals of our nation’s history. Now as 45 states are preparing to implement the Common Core State Standards, a major shift which has dominated most serious discussions ...
“Lento Pero Seguro,” English Learners Maintain Consistent Gains
English learners scored at 7 percent proficiency nationally in fourth-grade reading on the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an outcome that has remained effectively unchanged since 2003. But despite inherent difficulties in comparing outcomes, most notably the different definitions and systems used for identifying English learners in different states, the wide range of disparate outcomes across different states seems worthy of some analysis.
Virginia Needs More Charter Schools
Last month, the Virginia Board of Education took up consideration of a new proposal for a charter high school for Richmond, a college preparatory academy designed to provide boys from low-income, urban households with an education its leaders say is generally only available to families that can afford to pay for private schooling.
Wiring Schools for the 21st Century – What it Will Take
All children should have access to a high-quality education, but many in the United States are denied this opportunity because of a wide range of contributing factors, some easier to solve than others. As more and better instructional tools and materials are becoming available online, it is more essential that schools be wired with adequate, reliable broadband Internet connections. This allows schools to deliver both the content and the interactive online environment where actionable feedback directly guides students’ progress, supporting teachers and allowing them to produce remarkable efficiencies in learning. The nation’s best blended-learning schools fully integrate technology into their instruction in this way and produce powerful results, especially when it comes to closing achievement ...
Course Choice Proving a Promising Ed Reform Approach
The first of its kind and scope in the United States, Louisiana’s Course Choice program presents a promising opportunity to reduce achievement gaps while providing significant new educational options . .
Event: What Can Blended Learning Do for Virginia Students and Schools?
Blended learning – personalizing education by fully integrating technology into classroom instruction – is registering powerful academic results around the country. Increasingly, an innovation that . . .
Lexington Institute Files Public Comment on Modernizing the E-Rate Program
The Lexington Institute filed the following public comment with the Federal Communications Commission regarding their proposed rulemaking on Modernizing the E-Rate Program to promote broadband internet . . .
Carpe Diem’s Personalized Learning Posts Big Gains in Indianapolis
Carpe Diem’s Indianapolis campus, its first outside of Yuma, Arizona, not only defied expectations for any first-year high school, it posted academic outcomes that just may cause many urban educators to reconsider their own expectations...