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Reynolds, Heather M.; Astor, Ron Avi – American Educator, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic and recent racial justice movements have made it very apparent that our current approaches to keeping students safe and healthy in schools need major restructuring and reform. The country lacks mental health supports in many schools at a time when students need them most. Students of color are being punished and removed from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Safety, Mental Health, Social Emotional Learning
Weingarten, Randi – American Educator, 2023
According to Randi Weingarten, attacks on public education are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended to destroy it. Over the last three years, legislators in 45 states proposed hundreds of laws placing public schools at the center of culture wars: laws seeking to ban books from school libraries; laws restricting what…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Education, Educational Objectives, Institutional Mission
Goldstein, Dana – American Educator, 2015
This article is excerpted from Marshall Project staff writer and author, Dana Goldstein's 2014 book, "The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession." It begins by describing Goldstein's experience traveling as an education reporter in the late 2000s and the incredible amount of political scrutiny under which the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Educational History, Politics of Education, Public Schools
Schmidt, William H.; Burroughs, Nathan A. – American Educator, 2015
It is no secret that disadvantaged children are more likely to struggle in school. For decades now, public policy has focused on how to reduce the achievement gap between poorer students and more-affluent students. Despite numerous reform efforts, these gaps remain virtually unchanged--a fact that is deeply frustrating and also a little confusing.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Education
Mehta, Jal – American Educator, 2015
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released its now famous report, "A Nation at Risk," which warned of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in American schooling. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education but largely written by a group of prominent academics, "A Nation at Risk" invoked a crisis…
Descriptors: Risk, Research Reports, Position Papers, Content Analysis
Rose, Mike – American Educator, 2014
When this author was in high school in the 1960s, the curriculum was split into three tracks: an academic or college-preparatory track, a general education track, and a vocational track. Upon entrance, students were placed in one of them based on their previous academic records or a measure of ability, typically an IQ score. From the beginning of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Vocational Education, Articulation (Education), Alignment (Education)
Schmidt, William H.; Burroughs, Nathan A. – American Educator, 2013
In America, education has long been viewed as the main instrument for achieving equality of opportunity. Despite many reform efforts over the past several decades, the US educational system has patently failed to ensure equal access for all to the essential knowledge, skills, problem-solving abilities, and reasoning abilities that are necessary to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Achievement Gap, State Standards
Carnoy, Martin – American Educator, 1995
Lessons drawn from the experience of other countries make it clear that school voucher plans increase inequality without making schools better. Privatization reduces the public effort to improve schooling since it relies on the free market to increase achievement, but increases never occur. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Vouchers
Johnson, Jean; Immerwahr, John – American Educator, 1995
A report prepared by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan research and education organization, captures, frames, and focuses the public's concerns about public schools. Higher standards and more challenging work are supported, with emphasis on safety, order, and the basics of education, coupled with skepticism about unproven reform efforts. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Basic Skills, Educational Change
High Standards for All: The Struggle for Equality in the American High School Curriculum, 1890-1990.
Mirel, Jeffrey; Angus, David – American Educator, 1994
Close investigation of trends in high school student course taking indicates that curriculum differentiation has had a negative effect on the education of many young people, particularly working-class and black students. It is argued that national goals and standards, wisely developed and applied, can benefit American education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Course Selection (Students), Educational Change
American Educator, 1996
A series of focus group studies conducted by the Public Agenda Foundation explored public reactions to educational standards in 1993. This study revealed broad and spontaneous support for the idea that higher expectations will produce higher achievement. The strong endorsement of higher standards was also a manifestation of the public's concern…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Back to Basics, Basic Skills
American Educator, 1996
Teachers supported higher achievement standards and increased accountability, but expressed concerns about variations in student preparation, automatic promotion policies, and standards for homework and grading. Teachers also advocated more standardization and continuity in education, and agreed that raising achievement requires a measure of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
American Educator, 1996
Advanced placement (AP) tests in the United States are one of the best examples of home-grown high standards, but only a few students participate in them. Increasing student access to AP examinations offers a ready-made approach to high standards that can be expanded easily. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Change