Chichester County, PA, district is using an evidence-based, classwide paper/pencil + games math intervention. It's giving kinder students extra practice with foundational skills like 'counting on,' and they're seeing significant progress. Amanda VanDerHeyden hechingerreport.org/kindergarten-m…

👀 tidbit here: The govt found that 1 Art Institutes campus included Serena Williams' salary in its calculations for the average salary advertised to students, which allowed the school to skew the numbers (Williams attended the school in the early 2000s) x.com/MarketWatch/st…

This is an important thread below, explaining why so many high school teachers are writing lessons from scratch -- a phenomenon I wrote about today. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-m…

“our activities and events are focussed around things people are interested in. We have fantasy football courses, Italian food courses, mocktail making courses, wildflower courses and so much more” #maths #iTeachMath bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Recent graduates of shuttered schools have obstacles too. When one started a new job in December, her employer tried to verify her education, but couldn’t. Jon Marcus hechingerreport.org/colleges-are-n…

“A surprising number of math teachers, particularly at the high school level, simply said we don’t use the district or school-provided materials, or they claimed they didn’t have any.”

PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds hechingerreport.org/proof-points-m…

Schools built classrooms and hired teachers to educate bumper crops of babies born in 2000s, and now there are too few kids. Kids born in the first cohort of declining births are now in 10th grade. This is the enrollment cliff that colleges are going to confront soon.

For those seeing all the drama, the misinformation, & the attempts to discredit me, this is my interpretation of the events: thethreo.com/the-silencing-…

.Jill Barshay: The academic fight about Jo Boaler's work Stanford University Stanford UniversityEd reflects wider weaknesses in education research hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…
'the 'liberties' Boaler takes are common in the field. 'That’s not to suggest that taking these liberties is okay''

Proud to work on this Education Reporting Collaborative project focused on the impact of the child care crisis on mothers' ability to stay employed. Great partnership between The Hechinger Report The Christian Science Monitor The Seattle Times Idaho Education News Dallas Morning News The Associated Press The Alabama Education Lab apnews.com/article/daycar…

The 🔥 part of Jill Barshay’s latest isn’t Boaler.

It’s “bigger issues w the state of Ed research.”

“Experts are prone to make wide, sweeping statements. And there are too few studies in real classrooms or RCTs that could settle some of the big debates.”
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Good look from Jill Barshay: 'The citation controversy reflects bigger issues with the state of education research...There are too few studies in real classrooms or randomized controlled trials that could settle some of the big debates.' hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…

'The citation controversy reflects bigger issues with the state of education research. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics. Academic experts are prone to make wide, sweeping statements ...' hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…

Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s… via Jill Barshay Jo Boaler #mathwars

Inside the Math Wars: Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler talks about her new book 'MATH-ish' and takes on her critics. A thorough, accurate, fair-minded assessment from ⁦Jill Barshay⁩ ⁦⁦The Hechinger Report⁩ #mathed #cdned hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…

So thrilled to receive first place last night in the magazine writing category in the Religion News Association awards at #RNA2024 at the beautiful Andy Warhol Museum. It was for my The Hechinger Report The New Republic piece on a school prayer battle in LA. Beacon Press

How one district has diversified its advanced math classes — without the controversy - The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/how-one-distri…

Basically unanimous agreement among the econ panelists that 'Universities that return to requiring standardized test scores for admissions will create measurably enhanced opportunities for potentially high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds.' kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/test-s…

Another meta-analysis finds that oral-only exercises aren't terribly effective or important for teaching reading. Here's the latest. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Here's my lay-person's explanation of the history of phonemic awareness and the debate: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-c…