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  • 4 days ago | edweek.org | Rick Hess |Frederick M. Hess

    The winds of educational change are blowing. Tim Knowles is the 10th president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the 120-year-old organization that birthed the Carnegie Unit and the Educational Testing Service. Knowles is intent on steering into the teeth of that gale, working to retool the Carnegie Unit and intent on assessing the promise of innovations like the three-year college degree or micro-credentials.

  • 1 week ago | edweek.org | Rick Hess |Frederick M. Hess

    A big frustration with policy is that it can feel far removed from the real work of schooling. Why is that? What can we do about it? Such questions seem well worth digging into today, and I can’t think of anyone better to dig with than Andy Rotherham, the author of the Eduwonk blog, big-time education consultant, a member of Virginia’s board of education, and a former special assistant for education to President Bill Clinton.

  • 2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Rick Hess |Frederick M. Hess

    This year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress results were mostly grim, but there was one bright spot: The impressive growth in performance by a handful of Southern states. I recently chatted with Louisiana state chief Cade Brumley about what’s driving his state’s success. That conversation prompted a note from Matthew Levey, a charter school founder with an abiding interest in curriculum and instructional materials.

  • 2 weeks ago | edweek.org | Rick Hess |Frederick M. Hess

    In recent years, the academic struggles of America’s boys have gained heightened visibility. The leading scholar on this count may be Richard Reeves, Brookings Institution scholar and the founding president of the American Institute for Boys and Men. His book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to do About It was named one of 2022’s best books by The New Yorker and The Economist and a summer reading selection last year by former President Barack Obama.

  • 3 weeks ago | edweek.org | Rick Hess |Frederick M. Hess

    Mike Goldstein, the founder of Match Education and 1Up Career Coaching, is one of my favorite education thinkers. Over the years, he’s often been decades ahead of the pack when it comes to rethinking tutoring, teacher pay, professional development, school models, and more. He’s occasionally shared glimpses of his thinking here at RHSU. Well, he wrote recently, after his nonprofit 1Up Career Coaching was featured in best-selling author Dan Heath’s new book RESET: How to Change What’s Not Working.

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