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Education Progress retweeted
Education policy has two camps. Both are wrong.
@tracewoodgrains, founder of @educprogress, live at Manifest:
"For a long time in the United States, education policy has been fitting around a one size fits all narrative... everyone understands on some level that kids learn at different paces, but education policy has wanted to treat this as a third rail."
"One crowd says, 'Remove all standards, remove standardized tests, remove the advanced programs.' The other says, 'We should have a high flat standard'... that's the No Child Left Behind ethos. We will get everyone up to this flat standard by 2014. And the problem is that's just nonsense."
"What we're focused on is how can you meet kids where they are at... test them, teach to their actual level rather than having some hypothetical standard of what a kid this age should know."
Education Progress retweeted
Great episode. A lot of the problems in education are ideologically driven, but some are simple mistakes of fact. Making it easier for qualified students to take advanced classes serves the public interest.
Education Progress retweeted
🚨New episode now live! Thomas Briggs and David Shuck join me to discuss why bad education ideas can persist—even in the face of evidence.
We unpack flawed advanced math placement decisions, San Francisco's detracking experiment, the New York math briefs controversy, discussing what went wrong and why.
Link below 👇
Education Progress retweeted
Stanford's education research center, YouCubed, revised a paper after I pointed out incorrect data. The new version revealed bigger problems.
Education Progress retweeted
New piece up at @CenterforEdProg about grade inflation - check it out! educationprogress.org/p/grad…
Education Progress retweeted
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
Education Progress retweeted
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-…
Education Progress retweeted
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!
Education Progress retweeted
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-o…
Education Progress retweeted
Have a new piece up at @CenterforEdProg about why college admissions are nonsense. Check it out! educationprogress.org/p/coll…
Education Progress retweeted
New piece up @CenterforEdProg - educationprogress.org/p/poll…
Education Progress retweeted
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…
Education Progress retweeted
yes! yes!!
elementary schools in Rockford, Illinois started grouping students by reading ability instead of age. what happened?
everything worked spectacularly. students happy, teachers happy, scores up.
ability grouping works.
HOORAY FOR THIS
We Started Grouping Students by Reading Ability vs. Grade. Here’s What Happened the74million.org/article/we-… @NAGCGIFTED @JonathanPlucker @ehanford @rpondiscio @MrDanielBuck
Education Progress retweeted
Drew Perkins talks with Jack Despain Zhou about his project to establish a new think tank called Center for Educational Progress: @CenterforEdProg.
The ThoughtStretchers Podcast: Centering Educational Progress
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