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The New Reality Roundup
It is week 172 of our new reality and we are taking stock of what the latest data tells us about the state of learning in America.
It’s week 170 of our new reality and we are thinking about both the scale of the problems in our education system and the scale needed for a solutio...
It is week 168 of our new reality and we are thinking about an inconvenient truth at the heart of education reform: Charter schools work.
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It is week 166 of our new reality and we are thinking about why policy changes that empower families get labeled as “emergencies” by politicians, ...
“When students fall behind, they don’t just catch up naturally … It is magical thinking to expect they will make this happen without a major inc...
“The shortcomings of the U.S. education system are clear in terms of the inequity you end up with: the kind of jobs, salaries, mobility you’d like...
It is week 160 of our new reality, and we are thinking about how much progress we are making as a country in putting the focus on the science of readi...
It is week 158 of our new reality, and Geoffrey Canada is stunned that our leaders aren’t more fired up about the crisis in our schools.
It is week 156 of our new reality, and state legislative sessions are heating up across the country while advances in AI are upending how teachers tea...
This week, we look at a successful summer proof point and the need to replicate it widely and share promising work in supporting English language lear...
It is week 152 of our new reality and David Brooks is asking why our nation’s leaders seem so “blissfully unaware” of the crisis in our schools.
It is week 150 of our new reality. “To what extent has the learning progress of school-aged children slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic?” as...