Martin R. West
Editor-in-Chief at Education Next
Academic Dean at HGSE, Editor-in-Chief of EdNext, Faculty Research Fellow at NBER, & Member of MA BESE and NAGB.
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1 month ago |
educationnext.org | Martin R. West
The latest Nation’s Report Card dashed hopes that U.S. students might have finally closed pandemic learning gaps. The results show reading scores are down nationally in both 4th and 8th grade, compounding declines on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. Math scores ticked upwards from 2022 in 4th grade, but not enough for students to reach achievement levels seen in 2019. And scores were flat in 8th grade after a historic drop in 2022.
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May 27, 2024 |
educationnext.org | Martin R. West
Daniel Hamlin, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss efforts to regulate homeschooling rules in states, and the upcoming Emerging School Models: Maintaining the Momentum conference, which will be hosted by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance on Sept. 12 and 13, 2023. Learn more about the conference, and register to attend, here.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
educationnext.org | Michael Q. McShane |Michael Horn |Martin R. West |Eric Wearne
What should we call the growing number of learning environments that lie between traditional homeschooling and conventional, five-days-a-week, brick-and-mortar public and private schooling? So-called “microschools” and “hybrid schools” have gained enormous popularity in the past few years. The first Prenda microschool opened in Arizona in 2018, and Prenda has since served nearly 10,000 students.
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Nov 1, 2023 |
educationnext.org | R. Shep Melnick |Martin R. West |Joshua Dunn
Questions surrounding the application of Title IX to transgender students have been roiling education politics for nearly 10 years. In 2016, the Obama administration tried to settle one aspect of the issue without public input by declaring in a Dear Colleague Letter that transgender students must be able to use bathrooms matching their gender identity. That effort only generated more conflict and was quickly rescinded under President Trump.
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Oct 6, 2023 |
educationnext.org | Frederick M. Hess |Lauren Forrow |Martin R. West |Eric Hanushek
Reports of drops in student achievement due to the pandemic are now treated as old news. Amid abstract reporting of test results, a sense of inevitability and complacency has developed. After all, could the fact that students’ math scores fell by “nine points” truly be important? The reality is that the cohort of students in school in March 2020 has been seriously harmed—implicitly facing a lifetime tax on earnings of 6 percent. And the harm is not going away.
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