Sports and Education Work Well Together

 

Jay P. Greene is the 21st century professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas. Daniel H. Bowen is a post-doctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.

UPDATED OCTOBER 21, 2014, 10:15 PM

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High School Athletes Gain Lifetime Benefits

Kevin Kniffin teaches leadership and management in sports at Cornell University as part of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He is on Twitter.

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School Should Be About Learning, Not Sports

Amanda Ripley, an Emerson senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is the author of "The Smartest Kids in the World — and How They Got That Way." She is on …

'Nice' and racist

In a review in Teachers College Record of Angela Castano's Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools, Lisa Mazzei writes that Castano critiques how educator engagements with race have become inconspicuous, normal, and "nice." The book problematizes discourses of race in U.S. schools, and illustrates how well-intentioned diversity-related practices solidify inequity and reinscribe whiteness as the norm. Castagno…

Reform isn't rocket science

Why does so much reform produce so little change? asks Jack Schneider in a post on the Answer Sheet blog in The Washington Post. His answer is that most observers see fixing schools as more like baking brownies than launching a rocket: "Mix one good teacher with a solid curriculum; stir in a few books; add a pinch of snazzy technology; and bake for 180 days." What could be so hard? But unlike working educators, most leaders of…

Where Do Biases Start? A Challenge to Educators

Ed Week

Earlier this year, I was invited to speak to a few hundred African-American male high school students in Jacksonville, Fla. The young people there were searching for answers in the…

One Day That Changed Everything…

How poor districts will fare with CCSS

Prior to the Common Core, states set their own standards and chose their own tests to measure student progress, writes Marc Tucker in Education Week. States that required a test for graduation used exams that could be passed by students with a 9th grade level of English literacy and a deeply flawed understanding of middle school math. We currently recruit teachers from the lower ranks of those high school graduates,…

That fuss about AP History

In October 2012, the College Board revamped its AP History course to encourage greater depth in fewer topics, writes Emmanuel Felton for The Hechinger Report. The class is the College Board's second most popular after AP English Language and Composition, with 442,890 students taking the exam in 2013. Its course description for the first time calls for teachers to impart critical thinking skills to their students, ideas in line with…