Center for Educational Progress

New piece up at @CenterforEdProg about grade inflation - check it out! educationprogress.org/p/grade-inflat…

The excellence of America’s youth has been systematically suppressed by the institutions whose explicit job is to develop it. For a generation, "equity" has been the hammer that ideologues have used to eliminate excellence in schools There are 3 ways to neutralize that weapon: 1) reject the premise that "equalizing outcomes" is a worthy goal 2) show that eliminating public pathways to excellence hurts the kids who most depend on them 3) reclaim the word "equity" to include the academic needs of ALL kids, including high-achievers Thanks to @CenterforEdProg for collaborating with me on this essay on the failures of equitable education

Which states have education policies that best foster student excellence? Starting today and culminating on April 6th, Education Progress is running our first March Education Madness Tournament! Here's how it works 👇

I wrote and lobbied for Illinois’ tax credit scholarship program. Have a new piece up @CenterforEdProg about the new federal tax credit scholarship program - how it works, how it’s different from state programs, and what to watch for in the coming months. educationprogress.org/p/the-1700-que…

Cultivating talent in American public schools has never been more important. Winning the AI race is both an economic and geopolitical urgency, and it will require caring about excellence in education again. 👇

The research is clear: academic acceleration benefits faster learning students academically, socially, and emotionally. Even so, US schools routinely deny it. John Boyle shows what happens when schools force brilliant children into lockstep, and what we should do instead.

@gtmom I would argue that it has a lot to do with ineffective advocacy organizations that work on the cause. Hoping to change that with @CenterforEdProg. I was able to pass two laws in Illinois and one in Colorado with minimal expense (very little C4, no PAC). It's doable!

From @ThomBriggs's latest piece for @CenterforEdProg, a pointed critique of education policy on both sides of the aisle. "No one wants to talk about excellence": educationprogress.org/p/no-one-wants…

Have a new piece up at @CenterforEdProg about why college admissions are nonsense. Check it out! educationprogress.org/p/college-admi…

Neither major party seems to care about excellence in education. Democrats have abandoned it for equity theater. Republicans have abandoned it for embarrassingly easy culture war wins. This is a story about how we got to this impasse, and what it might take to get out.

Freddie deBoer is one of the most original and incisive thinkers in the ed space today. But he's dead-wrong about the importance of student learning, and we at @CenterforEdProg wanted to figure out how one of ed's most ardent reformers lost sight of the value of learning. 🧵

Check out @KelseyTuoc's awesome new piece in @TheArgumentMag about the strange equity crusade against middle school algebra, with quotes from our Director @ThomBriggs!

New piece up @CenterforEdProg - educationprogress.org/p/polls-show-t…

Interesting piece by @CenterforEdProg. I've seen many cases where schools/districts utilize curricula that don't include math facts and, without supplements, see students suffer. Bringing in explicit instruction and timed quizzes is a great start. educationprogress.org/p/what-went-wr…

The state of New York does not know how to teach kids math. I'm not talking about all New York teachers, or schools, or districts. But when it comes to the state's official guidance on math instruction, well... there are a couple pretty big problems. 🧵

"What should the Department of Education do?" is one of the most divisive questions in ed policy today. Years of bitter debates and conflicting values have left many on the inside unwilling to listen to critics and many on the outside wanting to shut it all down... (🧵)