Category: Education Policy & Reform
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Teacher Quality as the Decisive Variable: Why Recruitment and Retention Outweigh Nearly Every Other Reform
The Student Press · Policy Desk · Est. Today Teacher Quality as the Decisive Variable: Why Recruitment and Retention Outweigh Nearly Every Other Reform On the one factor inside a school that moves outcomes more than all the rest Education reform is a graveyard of grand schemes — new curricula, new technologies, new structures —…
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The Voucher Experiment: What Decades of School Choice Data Actually Reveal About Markets in Education
The Student Press · Policy Desk · Est. Today The Voucher Experiment: What Decades of School Choice Data Actually Reveal About Markets in Education On the long-running test of whether competition makes schools better Few education ideas have generated as much passion, and as much research, as the proposal to fund students rather than schools…
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Standardized Testing as Policy Instrument: How Measurement Regimes Quietly Redefine What Schools Are For
The Student Press · Policy Desk · Est. Today Standardized Testing as Policy Instrument: How Measurement Regimes Quietly Redefine What Schools Are For On the strange power of the things we choose to measure, and what they crowd out A test looks like a neutral instrument — a way to find out what students have…
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Centralization Versus Local Control: The Eternal Tension Over Who Should Govern a Nation’s Schools
The Student Press · Policy Desk · Est. Today Centralization Versus Local Control: The Eternal Tension Over Who Should Govern a Nation’s Schools On the tug-of-war between the capital and the community over how children are taught Every country that educates its children has to answer a deceptively simple question: who decides what happens in…