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"The shift to restorative justice in schools did not begin with a bottom-up drive to address student needs, but rather with top-down guidance from the U.S. Department of Education." bit.ly/4bpa3Zi

“How did we reach the moon? How did we cure polio? By sweating over picayune details and worrying about what researchers could ‘prove’? No! It was about vision!! The rest is just footnotes.” bit.ly/4vasZny

"After 15 years, those students were an additional 120 days (0.166 standard deviations) of learning ahead of students in lower-competition areas." bit.ly/4siiFaQ

"When test scores are collapsing, obsessing over everything except results looks less like progressivism and more like abdication." bit.ly/3PyAYKQ

"Last year, the Trump administration took two major steps to limit the use of disparate impact analysis—the legal standard by which organizations can be held liable for unintentional discrimination." bit.ly/4mokX6v

"It turns out that students who haven’t developed math automaticity are going to have trouble spotting errors or making sense of mortgage payments or credit card offers, no matter what tools they use." bit.ly/41AhdVX

Amber Northern, a senior advisor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, joins the Education Exchange to discuss efforts on reforming the Institute of Education Science. bit.ly/4sXIxtt

"Five decades of research have shown that early readers benefit from learning letter-sound correspondences systematically. But little definitive evidence exists on which phonics skills should be taught, in what order, and for how long." bit.ly/4vgRsaI

"Can we technically ‘demonstrate’ or ‘prove’ that they lead to better academic outcomes? Well, no, not as such." bit.ly/4vasZny

The End of Disparate Impact? How changes to federal policy on what counts as discrimination will affect schools. bit.ly/4mokX6v

"If relationships are so central to opportunity, you might expect our schools to cultivate them intentionally. In fact, they often don’t." bit.ly/4brLwCO

"Competitive debate motivates people to reason about complex public issues. Students must argue about substance, not attack each other." bit.ly/47csGOG

"In hopes that we can help knowledge transition from fad to mainstay, we offer this article as a primer on how knowledge indispensably supports reading comprehension and critical thinking." bit.ly/4t562jF

“In throwing off the shackles of routine, students are manifesting Paulo Freire’s liberationist mindset. They’re rejecting repressive pedagogy and reclaiming their time from the voracious capitalist hierarchy. How can one not be inspired?” bit.ly/4sdywrF

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"Researchers call this ability to implicitly pick up patterns and apply them the 'self-teaching mechanism,' or 'statistical learning'—and many say it’s underrecognized within the science-of-reading movement." bit.ly/4vgRsaI

"This aligns it with a growing classical education movement in charter and Christian schools, in some colleges, and among families who home-school." bit.ly/4bMiNJb

"Just because a program hasn’t worked in the past and doesn’t work today doesn’t mean it won’t work in the future..." bit.ly/4vasZny

Admissions Officers Beware: Some Advanced Placement Scores Are Inflated. Most frequently taken exams scored under new, relaxed system. bit.ly/4mgIvu2

"While public schools enjoyed overall support from 58 percent in 1973, that had fallen to 28 percent by 2022." bit.ly/4bsWsS2