Measures of Effective Teaching: Final Reports

By Amber Winkler and Daniela Fairchild

Education Gadfly

After three years, $45 million, and a staggering amount of video content, the Gates Foundation has released the third and final set of reports on its ambitious Measurements in Effective Teaching (MET) project (the first two iterations are reviewed …

Does a Double Dose of Algebra Help High-School Students?

In this Education Next article, Kalena Cortes (Texas A&M University), Joshua Goodman (Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government), and Takako Nomi (St. Louis University) report on a follow-up study of 11,507 students who took a “double dose” of algebra in Chicago high schools. Researchers found that increased time in algebra resulted in minimal gains for most students, and for a subset of…

Robert Marzano on Analyzing Complex Texts

(Originally titled “Analyzing Complex Texts”)

In this Educational Leadership column, author/consultant Robert Marzano says that when students analyze a text’s structure, they should be aware of two levels: (a) the overall organization – for example, rising action, climax, falling action in literature or, in non-fiction, presenting and supporting a claim; and (b) the underlying…

7 Ways to Increase Student Ownership

We hear it all the time. "Students should take ownership of their school." But how do we make that happen?

Last spring, my colleagues and I began the process of…

Petition to Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to End High Stakes Testing

By carolcorbettburris, December 29, 2012

We, the undersigned, support higher standards that are reasonably designed, implemented with care, and accompanied by the resources schools need to…

Language Education We Can Use

As the global nature of work and life in the 21st century becomes clearer by the day, calls for a greater focus on international education and language learning are growing louder.…

A Son’s Fears and A Father’s Response

Catholic Education, in Need of Salvation

By PATRICK J. McCLOSKEY and JOSEPH CLAUDE HARRIS

CATHOLIC parochial education is in crisis. More than a…

Why So Many Schools Remain Penitentiaries of Boredom

Where Are the Next Successful Principals Coming From? Creating a strong candidate pool through informal internships is a step in the right direction.

by Dr. Donald Sternberg

WANTED

Wanted, a new principal to fill the vacancy of a departing administrative staff member! The superintendent is looking for a bright, energetic, hardworking individual with pedagogical expertise whose…