Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Sara Hjelm is a reader of this blog. She wrote to me about the state of Swedish schools a few weeks ago and her deeply-felt concerns about the reforms now occurring in her country. As a retired teacher she sees the blending of school…
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Technological fantasies of the future school have been around for decades. Here’s one from 1910. Note all of the information going into students’ heads comes from textbooks fed into a wood chipper. ??Or another from 1963 cartoon called “The Jetsons.” ?Or this one in…
Originally posted on Robert Slavin's Blog:
I’m delighted to see that the idea of large-scale tutoring to combat Covid-19 losses has gotten so important in the policy world that it is attracting scoffers and doubters. Michael Goldstein and Bowen Paulle (2020) published five brief commentaries recently in The Gadfly, warning about how tutoring could…
We’ve known the importance of a good solid relationship between teachers and students or pupils for a long time now, but how can you work on that relationship? A new meta-analysis by Kincaid et al tries to answer that question by examining what successful programs have in common: Of the proactive direct practices, the most… Read More New meta-analysis shows how teachers can strengthen their relationship with their students
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter: Is exposing students to course acceleration the best way to help their skills acquisition? Recently RAND Corporation’s Andrew McEachin and his colleagues investigated the impact of enrolling in advanced math courses on students’ achievement and heterogeneity across schools.… Read More Is course acceleration a good-for-all policy? (Best Evidence in Brief)
The answer to that question is easy and complex at the same time: All students benefit from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high-school graduation, college-going, and school-based arrests. These patterns are driven by the least advantaged students benefiting the most from school impacts on the non-test-score dimensions… Read More Guess who benefits from attending effective schools?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Per Kornhall is a widely published Swedish scholar of education. He wrote this post for the blog. Sweden and Chile are the two nations that decided to introduce privatization into significant parts of their national school system. The results are alarming. Since the same free-market forces are at…
