The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

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March 01, 2016
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April 27, 2015
Eduwatch 2016
February 29, 2016
BANNER: 2015 Annual Report
February 26, 2016
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February 11, 2016
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Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments

Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments examines previously unreleased items from three multi-state...

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America's Best (and Worst) Cities for School Choice

More than twelve million American students exercise some form of school choice by going to a charter, magnet, or private school...

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One size may fit most, but certainly not the gifted and talented

M. René Islas

Last fall, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a working paper by researchers Thomas S. Dee and Hans Henrik...

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Laying the foundation for the next decade of D.C. reform

Here’s the speech I wish Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser would give: Our great city has a once-in-a-generation opportunity...

Common Core Watch

Pencils down: What I learned from studying the quality of state tests

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at the findings and implications of Evaluating...

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Detroit is failing its students, and politicians are failing Detroit

After roughly a year of presidential politicking during which education has been given short shrift , two primary debates over...

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Education reform's women—and the credit and opportunities they deserve

When the history of this era’s urban-education reform movement is written, four big policy innovations are sure to get attention...

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Whose America is it? Why I want my students to read Ta-Nehisi Coates but believe Lin-Manuel Miranda

I have no idea if Lin-Manuel Miranda has read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me ; nor am I aware if Coates has seen...

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How well do next-generation tests measure higher-order thinking skills?

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at the findings and implications of...

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The next phase of D.C. reform

If you’re at all interested in Washington, D.C. schools, you should read this excellent report by David Osborne . It serves as a...

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My humbling—and motivating—teacher test experience

Peter Sipe

One of my favorite pieces of writing is four sentences long. It’s the statement General Dwight Eisenhower drafted in the event D-...

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Using ESSA to fix reading: Implications for state policy

Lisa Hansel

Last week , we encouraged state policy makers and educators to rethink what it takes to develop strong readers and the signals...

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Leaving talent on the table: Fixing gifted education in America

By Norm Augustine and Rudy Crew

Talk is cheap. For decades, elected officials, education leaders, and others have consumed much oxygen talking about the...

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Introducing the Fordham Institute’s 2015 Annual Report

Editor's note: This letter appeared in the 2015 Thomas B. Fordham Institute Annual Report. To learn more, download the report ...

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Five ways to stop wasting teachers' time with ineffective professional development

Any teacher worth his salt can recognize that there are differences among students that must be taken into account in the...

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This time it's personal: Round two of Vergara v. California

If you take an interest in the intersection of American education and law, the news this month has clearly been dominated by one...

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Advocating for high-achievers

Thanks to No Child Left Behind and its antecedents, American education has focused in recent decades on ensuring that all...

Common Core Watch

Beyond multiple choice tests

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of blog posts taking a closer look at the findings and implications of Evaluating...

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Stop with the political correctness and just admit it: Lots of high school graduates aren't ready for college.

I’m appalled that The Donald might actually win the Republican nomination running on a “platform” of bombast and xenophobia. But...

Common Core Watch

A conversation with our content leads

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of blog posts that will take a closer look at the findings and implications of...

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A culturally rich curriculum can improve minority student achievement

For some, the ivory tower of academia is “ivory” in more ways than one. Events over the last year showed us that within our...

Common Core Watch

New Common Core assessments measure the most important content in the standards

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of blog posts that will take a closer look at the findings and implications of...

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School policies have gotten smarter in the decade after No Child Left Behind

A decade ago, U.S. education policies were a mess. It was the classic problem of good intentions gone awry. At the core of the...

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Steering and rowing in the age of ESSA

If you care about state education policy and/or the new federal education law, you ought to spend some time doing three things...