Lynn Olson

4 weeks ago | datiak12.io | Lynn Olson |Thomas Toch

This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance.

1 month ago | the74million.org | Lynn Olson |Thomas Toch

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Lynn Olson |Thomas Toch

What’s the best way to measure a school’s quality? It depends on whom you ask. Parents, educators, employers and policymakers hold many different opinions about the goals of education and, therefore, about how to judge school performance. Yet virtually every educational aim rests on the same foundation: giving students a strong academic grounding and developing the knowledge and habits of mind that allow them to think critically, communicate effectively and acquire knowledge and skills over time.

Feb 11, 2025 | educationnext.org | Lynn Olson |Thomas Toch |Chad Aldeman |Dale Chu

Educators and policymakers agree that state standardized testing needs improvement. Student scores had been slipping for nearly a decade even before the Covid-19 school closures generated unprecedented drops in student learning. Apart from a pandemic-induced pause in spring 2020, state testing systems remained in place throughout that stretch—but failed to halt the decline.

Jul 13, 2023 | future-ed.org | Lynn Olson

In the past five years, 30 states around the country, with leaders from both political parties, have passed laws requiring educators to teach young children how to read based on what educators now know from science about effective literacy instruction.