The Educational Value of Field Trips - Education Next
WEBSep 16, 2013 · Jay P. Greene joined EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the benefits of field trips, including how seeing live theater is a more enriching experience to students, on the EdNext podcast. The school field trip has a long history in American public education. For decades, students have piled into yellow buses to visit a variety of ...
Busting the Myths About Year-Round School Calendars
WEBOct 25, 2022 · Myth #2: The main goal of year-round calendars is to help students learn. Most public conversation about balanced calendars assumes that they are designed to help students learn. In fact, over the past 50 years, a major reason districts have adopted balanced calendars is to address overcrowding and save money.
About Us - Education Next
WEBIn the stormy seas of school reform, this journal will steer a steady course, presenting the facts as best they can be determined, giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas, and responsible arguments. Bold change is needed in American K–12 education, but Education Next partakes of no program, campaign, or ideology.
How Schools and Teachers Can Get Better at Cultural Competence
WEBAug 6, 2020 · The opportunity is now for districts to address the reality of bias, stereotypes, and cultural differences for cultural competency. While Covid-19 and preparing for another school closure is necessary, so is the importance of cultural competency. If districts forfeit the opportunity to address injustice, the damage could be catastrophic.
How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
WEBFeb 17, 2016 · This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.”The full series will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next.. On the weekend before the Fourth of July 1966, the U.S. Office of Education quietly released a 737-page report that summarized one of the most ...
Has Inclusion Gone Too Far? - Education Next
WEBJul 24, 2018 · Allison F. Gilmour. The model of special education known as inclusion, or mainstreaming, has become more prevalent over the past 10 years, and today, more than 60 percent of all students with disabilities (SWDs) spend 80 percent or more of their school day in regular classrooms, alongside their non-disabled peers (see Figure 1).
To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them
WEBAug 29, 2023 · Suggested citation format: D’Orio, W. (2023). To Fix Students’ Bad Behavior, Stop Punishing Them: Collaborative methods for handling misconduct make their way to the classroom. Education Next, 23 (4), 50-55. For more, please see “ The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2023.”.
AI in Education - Education Next
WEBAug 8, 2023 · AI in Education. The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 science fiction novel, The Diamond Age, readers meet Nell, a young girl who comes into possession of a highly advanced book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The book is not the usual ...
A Post-Covid Case for Classroom Cameras - Education Next
WEBJan 5, 2021 · A Post-Covid Case for Classroom Cameras. When the pandemic ends, let’s keep teachers’ cameras on. Michael J. Petrilli. Now that there’s light at the end of this very dark tunnel thanks to vaccines developed in a miraculously short time, we are all looking forward to life getting back to normal. But that doesn’t mean everything should go ...
The Lost Children of E.D. Hirsch - Education Next
WEBAvery, 2019, $27, 336 pages. As reviewed by Robert Pondiscio. The most important point raised in Natalie Wexler’s new book The Knowledge Gap is nearly an afterthought. It’s in the book’s epilogue. After a compelling, book-length argument in favor of offering a knowledge-rich education to every child and documenting our frustrating lack of ...
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