Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Banned books

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  The LA Times has the story: Book bans are soaring in U.S. schools, fueled largely by new laws in Republican-led states  by  ALEXANDRA E. P...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Lowell High School principal resigns in San Francisco, in latest setback for elite high school

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Elite public schools, which admit students by exam, are under attack in many places. In San Francisco, that would be Lowell high school, who...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Science Talent Search in the schools, after 100 years

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 When I was in high school in the 1960's, I participated in a long-established student competition called the Science Talent Search, whi...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Matching Teach For America Teachers to Schools, by Jonathan Davis

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Some years ago Clayton Featherstone and I worked with Teach for America to design their process for matching new recruits to school distric...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

The importance of very early education, by Gray-Lobe, Pathak, and Walters

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  There's more to education than exam scores.  Here's a recent paper on the effects of early preschool education on long term educat...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Teaching online: Singapore, NYC react to Zoombombing of online classes

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Some of us are old enough to remember when email didn't come with security concerns.  Things are moving faster these days, so it's ...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Enticing new graduates to become prison guards, British edition

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In the U.S., new college graduates are tempted into teaching in under-served schools through Teach for America , and in Britain through Tea...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

Information, school quality and school choice

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Here's a recent article by Gail Cornwall in The Atlantic, summarizing some of the work on school choice which points out that it is ea...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Data access makes research on schools (and school choice) hard

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Courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act, an intrepid reporter lets us in on some of the emails about data access between the Louisiana D...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017

FutureEd

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FutureEd is a new(ish) educational think tank at Georgetown, founded by veteran Ed writer  Thomas Toch . "FutureEd is an independe...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

The market for jobs in international schools (elementary through high school)

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Two search firms seem to facilitate the market for teachers who want to work internationally: International Schools Services , and  Searc...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

School Vouchers and Student Achievement: some sobering news from Abdulkadiroglu, Pathak, and Walters

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School Vouchers and Student Achievement: First-Year Evidence from the Louisiana Scholarship Program Atila Abdulkadiroglu ,  Parag A. Pa...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Public schools and private philanthropy

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Public school budgets are always stretched to their limits, and one of the ways those limits are sometimes surmounted is with an infusion o...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Better late than never: I become a successful middle school student at the school's 60th anniversary

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Hello to any of my classmates who are attending Middle School 74's 60th anniversary celebration. When I went there, it was a Junior Hig...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Boot camps for new software developers

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Tamar Lewin in the NY Times has the story on a new kind of educational institution, designed to quickly produce software developers:  Web-E...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Credentials and degrees (and, I'm now almost a high school grad)

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I visited my old high school this past weekend , Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, in New York City. It was fun on a number of dif...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Martin Van Buren High School, in New York City

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My old high school--which was a giant city school when I attended, with well over 1,000 students graduating each year--hasn't been thri...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak on charter schools

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A profile of MIT economist Josh Angrist in the MIT Technology Review discusses, among other things, some of his work on schools with Parag P...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Forecasting school enrollment in Los Angeles

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LA is looking ahead:  Nation’s Second-Largest District Builds Enrollment Forecasting Platform "Problem Los Angeles (Calif.) Unified ...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

MIT celebrates Parag Pathak

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Game theory, in the real world: MIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems ... In 2003...