10+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1300+ words) The College Board has phased in a new scoring system that has inflated student results on nine of the most frequently taken AP exams. The share of students receiving the top score of 5 on these exams has jumped by an…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (475+ words) This is entirely false. AP Exam questions are not easier than in the past, nor are they harder. The exams themselves have not changed. Well-established equating processes ensure the difficulty of AP Exams remains consistent from year to year. So…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1779+ words) And yet a look inside K3 classrooms reveals surprising variation in exactly how these letters and sounds are taught. Along with the many research-based methods in use, there's another practice taking hold, and at great cost to students: over-teaching. "You do…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (279+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (866+ words) Paul Banksley sounded furious. I'd never heard the iconic vacuum salesman-turned-22nd Century Skills impresario like this. The avid TED Talker and founder of Tomorrows Are for Tomorrow is, after all, famed for his relentless good cheer. "I'm being harassed by…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (284+ words) Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and founding editor of Education Next, a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (270+ words) Employers want graduates who are comfortable using AI tools, so it only makes sense to weave AI into schooling as much as possible. Why would you spend a lot of time teaching facts and skills that students won't ever need…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (388+ words) The floodwaters raged. Infuriated by the ceaseless clamor from the crowded city of Shurrupak on the banks of the Euphrates River, the gods had resolved to purge the masses from it. Only a few mortals, tipped off ahead of time,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (944+ words) The good news is that Democrats are finally admitting what parents, advocates, and researchers have known for years: The party doesn't have a credible, student-centered education agenda. The bad news is how long it took to get here and the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (784+ words) Second, the knowledge that facilitates communication within a culture will change over time. Some of what Americans "know" today will later prove inaccurate or unimportant. Culture evolves, and the knowledge of a culture evolves with it. The foregoing analysis is…...