A first look at today's most important education news:
Fordham's latest
"The MET study: implications, winners, and losers," by Andy Smarick, Flypaper "The threat of the parent trigger and the change it begets," by Adam Emerson, Choice Words |
Surprise, surprise: Arne Duncan will stay on as Secretary of Education in President Obama’s second term. (Huffington Post)
The New York Archdiocese hopes that the latest round of Catholic-school closures “will be the last of such broad scope.” (New York Times)
Professors at Columbia University’s Teachers College have raised concerns about New York’s performance-based teacher certification test. (Teacher Beat)
The Measures for Effective Teaching research project included “student surveys” as a central element. (Hechinger Report)
A new paper explores strategies for using technology to teach English-language learners. (Digital Education)
Math disability and anxiety researchers have found that students who perform poorly on college-readiness exams do just as well as high-achieving students on simple arithmetic problems, but use very different brain processes to do so. (Inside School Research)
