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Anna J. Egalite – Education Next, 2024
American students are far more diverse than their teachers. Some 79 percent of U.S. teachers are white compared to 44 percent of students. As a result, students of color are far less likely to have a same-race teacher than are white students, a phenomenon that has attracted the attention of philanthropists and policymakers alike. Foundations have…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Race, Diversity (Faculty)
Michael J. Petrilli – Education Next, 2024
Over the last decade, smartphones have become commonplace. Today, 95 percent of American teenagers have a supercomputer in their pocket. Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge, and others have brought necessary attention to the likelihood that smartphones and social media are partly to blame for the teenage mental health epidemic gripping the nation. It's…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Sleep, Adolescents
Jed Wallace – Education Next, 2024
Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can't miss the signs of charter-school momentum. Charter-school enrollment has been growing in Texas for years, but in many localities and even at the state level, charter schools had until recently encountered harsher treatment from policymakers than what advocates have…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Barriers, Legislators, Municipalities
Nina Buchanan; Paul E. Peterson – Education Next, 2024
Many public charter schools in the state of Hawaii are explicitly religious. For more than two decades, students at Hawaiian-focused schools have offered chants and prayers to the pantheon of gods who rule over skies, seas, and earth, including to the volcanic god, Pelehonuamea ("she who shapes the sacred land"), popularly known as Madam…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Religious Factors, State Church Separation, Political Influences
Paul E. Peterson; M. Danish Shakeel – Education Next, 2024
As states have passed laws establishing charter schools, advocates have carefully tracked and analyzed state policies and enrollments to compare charter school growth, demand, and access across the United States. But to date, there have been no comparisons of charter school performance across states based on student achievement adjusting for…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Assessment, National Competency Tests, Standardized Tests
Douglas N. Harris; Matthew F. Larsen – Education Next, 2024
In this article, the authors study family preferences in one of the most competitive school markets ever developed in the United States: New Orleans, where virtually all district students attend a charter school. The vast majority provide transportation from anywhere in the city, and none can charge tuition. Admission is based on parental…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Family Income
Doug Lemov – Education Next, 2024
Grade inflation is causing student's hard work to be undervalued. As high grades get easier and easier to achieve, the highest grades can only go up so far. The difference between excellent and decent is compressed. Everybody wins is a system that guides and shapes the mindset of most American students--except a small number of kids who lose out…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Inflation, Educational Environment, Academic Standards
Beth E. Schueler; Katherine E. Larned – Education Next, 2024
In this article, the authors sought to discover if participation in formal debate programs translates into better academic achievement and attainment for students. First, individual debaters' reading and math test scores over time were looked at and students were compared to themselves in years when they did and did not participate in debate. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Debate, Graduation Rate, College Enrollment
Sarah R. Cohodes; James J. Feigenbaum – Education Next, 2024
Americans with more education vote at higher rates. Some studies have found evidence of a causal relationship, while others have not. The available data also tell us little about why and how education increases voting. The authors looked the educational trajectories and adult voting records of students who attend charter schools in Boston. The…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Voting, Citizen Participation, Academic Achievement
Caralee Adams – Education Next, 2024
Involving students in policy debate is one of the most impactful academic interventions for secondary school students, according to a study, which between 2007 and 2017 followed about 3,500 students who were part of the Boston Debate League (BDL). The nonprofit supports debate teams in Boston Public Schools, which have a large concentration of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Debate, Public Policy, Clubs
David Grissmer; Mark Berends; Daniel T. Willingham; Chelsea A. K. Duran; William M. Murrah; Tanya Evans; Chris S. Hulleman; Jamie Decoster; Thomas G. White; Richard Buddin – Education Next, 2024
Educators and researchers have been fighting the reading wars for the last century, with battles see-sawing literacy instruction in American schools from phonics to whole language and, most recently, back to phonics again. Over the last decade, 32 states and the District of Columbia have adopted new "science of reading" laws that require…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Direct Instruction, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Alan Gottlieb – Education Next, 2024
In the ever-shifting world of school choice, what began as a homegrown charter-school network's small experiment in microschooling stands out as unique -- and as a uniquely promising model for replication. Gem Prep, a network of seven brick-and-mortar K-12 charter schools in Idaho, anchored by a longstanding and high-performing online school,…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Success, Charter Schools, School Choice
Virginia S. Lovison – Education Next, 2024
Since its founding 34 years ago, Teach For America has prepared nearly 70,000 recent college graduates and career-changers to teach in high-poverty schools across the United States. Unlike traditional teacher-preparation programs, it places "corps members" in short-staffed public schools after an intensive summer seminar, before they are…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged
Paul T. von Hippel – Education Next, 2024
In a 1984 essay, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago, asserted that tutoring offered "the best learning conditions we can devise" and that tutors could raise student achievement by two full standard deviations--or, in statistical parlance, two "sigmas." The influence of Bloom's two-sigma…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Academic Achievement, Educational Experiments, Tests
Dan Goldhaber; Grace T. Falken; Roddy Theobald; Maia Goodman Young – Education Next, 2024
This article evaluates the applicability at the state and district level of web scraping--an automated data-extraction technique that regularly exports and refreshes data from the Internet--to provide a low-cost way to get a close-to-real-time snapshot of the demand side of the teacher labor market. Once set up, web scraping can quickly build and…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Data Collection, Teacher Supply and Demand, Labor Market