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Tying teacher pay to student test scores. Creating public schools of choice with private operators. Setting common standards for all students. Those issues prob...
It’s the story told over and over: A child from a poor neighborhood attends a failing school but somehow beats the odds and rises to success....
A new report analyzing a decade’s worth of college graduation rates at more than 1,300 four-year colleges and universities reveals both positive and negative ...
Boaler explained that new research into brain plasticity says that mistakes actually grow the brain. Boaler cited research suggesting that every time a student ...
Next up at EwaGlobal: reporters do TIMSS & PISA test items...
One question that often comes up during state legislative sessions is whether it’s a waste of money to increase educational spending in large urban areas with...
The transformative potential in growth mindsets and social-emotional skills such as grit may be more applicable to students whose basic needs are already met....
A growth mindset is “the belief that you can develop your abilities”, according to Carol Dweck....
About a third of the students who started college in 2009 have since dropped out, joining the millions of young adults who never entered college in the first pl...
