Increasing Teacher Diversity Could Be a Game-Changer for Students’ Attitudes

Posted on July 13, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

Brian Kisida and Anna Egalite, in Real Clear Education, write about the potential positive effects on increasing teacher diversity that they discovered through recent research. An excerpt from their post appears below: It’s long been touted that for students, having teachers that look like them leads to higher test scores. But that’s not the whole Read more about Increasing Teacher Diversity Could Be a Game-Changer for Students’ Attitudes[…]

Maintaining Focus on Student Success

Posted on July 7, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

A recent paper titled Not another meeting: How performance management routines help education systems deliver on their goals for students asks what data from the field can tell us about the ways in which leaders keep their systems focused on their goals through regular conversations about progress. This paper considers five years’ data from “capacity Read more about Maintaining Focus on Student Success[…]

Most Likely to Succeed

Posted on July 1, 2016September 12, 2020 by coreeducation

David Brooks, an op-ed writer for the New York Times, examines the new documentary, Most Likely to Succeed and analyzes the claims it makes about the current state of the American Education system: Greg Whiteley’s documentary, Most Likely to Succeed, argues that the American school system is ultimately built on a Prussian model designed over Read more about Most Likely to Succeed[…]

Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education

Posted on June 27, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

Urban schools have been the center of investment and concern in public education for the past two decades. Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education[…]

The Evidence on Non-Cognitive Skills from California’s CORE Districts

Posted on June 8, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

Previously, this blog introduced readers to the work of California’s CORE Districts. Now preliminary evidence is out, and we are able to look more closely at the use of self-report surveys of non-cognitive skills as a potential element of school accountability systems. Analysis of data from the CORE field test indicates that the scales used Read more about The Evidence on Non-Cognitive Skills from California’s CORE Districts[…]

Eyes on the Prize: System-Wide Goals to Drive Student Success

Posted on June 2, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

In the first of a series of research briefs focused on the biggest implementation challenges facing American education today, EDI looks at what data from the field can tell us about education leaders’ capacity to anchor their work in clear student outcome goals. Eyes on the prize: The capacity of education leaders to use system-wide Read more about Eyes on the Prize: System-Wide Goals to Drive Student Success[…]

What Are Micro-Credentials?

Posted on May 10, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

Nowadays, most employers expect their workers to continually seek out learning opportunities. Micro-credentials offer students and working professionals alike a way to bulk up their resumes with field-specific skills. Micro-credentials are like certifications. Students or professionals take courses and develop specific skills in certain fields. This could include topics like: Teaching writing in K-12 classrooms Read more about What Are Micro-Credentials?[…]

A High School Student on Education Reform

Posted on May 5, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

Jonah Steele is a current high school student, writing on Medium about the current debate over education reform. He laments the fact that students do not seem to have any input, or at least are not taken seriously, in this debate. Mr. Steele states: Regardless of how many times you’ve watched a TED talk pop Read more about A High School Student on Education Reform[…]

Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA

Posted on April 21, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

Policymakers and practitioners who face a deluge of important decisions affecting thousands of schools can find advice from some of the top education thinkers in the country in JFF’s new brief, Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA: Seven Priorities. The piece recommends ways that supporters of deeper learning can make the most of the rapidly changing Read more about Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA[…]

Getting Smart: 6 Entry Points for Deeper Learning

Posted on April 14, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

In a recent Getting Smart article, Bonnie Lathram and Tyler Nakatsu explore how educators can get started with Deeper Learning. They suggest six entry points: Be a maker As an educator, what artifacts are there that can showcase the “makers” that you and your students are? Bring your own talents to the work you are Read more about Getting Smart: 6 Entry Points for Deeper Learning[…]

ESSA Accountability: Don’t Forget the High Achievers

Posted on April 11, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

In the early days of the accountability movement, Jeb Bush’s Florida developed an innovative approach to evaluating school quality. First, the state looked at individual student progress over time—making it one of the first to do so. Then it put special emphasis on the gains (or lack thereof) of the lowest-performing kids in the state. Read more about ESSA Accountability: Don’t Forget the High Achievers[…]

Duckworth: Do not Grade Schools on Grit

Posted on April 7, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Angela Duckworth, founder and scientific director of the Character Lab and the author of the forthcoming book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, recommends against using the results of character surveys for school accountability. A short excerpt from Mrs. Duckworth follows: Over the past few years, Read more about Duckworth: Do not Grade Schools on Grit[…]