Education Next

Education Next is a quarterly journal that bases its editorial policy on the premise that the education sector is ripe for major change and reform.

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"The truth is that electoral politics should be compartmentalized; it should occupy only a modest slice of life in a healthy republic." https://t.co/AtDVaQcBPD

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"Why? Spending went down by about $447 per pupil, with a standard error of $388—nearly as large as the estimate—but revenue fell at effectively the same rate." https://t.co/yzWJZR71md

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"To tell kids that calculus doesn’t matter is to deny them access to a tool that has transformed the world around us in their lifetime." https://t.co/oto7UTfygb

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"... Florida, with its expansive charter sector and relatively low per-pupil funding, offers a particularly instructive window into how successful charters overcome their budgetary limitations." https://t.co/XrHnwxM8Up

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Geoffrey Kocks, a research associate at Blueprint Labs and PhD student at MIT, is this week's guest on the Education Exchange podcast. https://t.co/vvxvclTyGA

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"The best public school leaders are not hiding from school choice; they’re learning from it." https://t.co/03Y5CS6msu

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"Rouse, a scholar of race and inequality who went viral a decade ago for a lecture titled 'F&*# Free Speech,' was eager to push back and had published a response to the Vanderbilt report on the AAA website..." https://t.co/OYosWjEQtA

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"The central question of school discipline cannot be what makes adults feel humane. It must be what best serves children over time." https://t.co/brtUb5KtdE

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A People Business: How Excellent Charter Schools Hire Teachers. Alignment with a school’s values can overcome inexperience. https://t.co/XrHnwxM8Up

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"I’ve been doing this long enough that hearing a steady drumbeat of triumphal PR blasts and exuberant op-eds makes me nervous." https://t.co/x5xg3gMK5V

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"To better understand these effects, we compare students’ outcomes based on a marker of 'non-cognitive skills' in 3rd grade—their self-reported enjoyment of learning in school." https://t.co/vqBCbNN3Zl

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"The following analysis uses federal data to examine why public school budgets have increasingly prioritized non-teaching staff." https://t.co/LIa73p5RdK

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"Governor Youngkin challenged every state agency to find a unique way to commemorate Virginia’s role in the nation’s founding." https://t.co/5Gpo45Frob

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"We need human connection to learn. We’re wired to feel seen, safe, and connected in order to learn best. That will never come from an algorithm." https://t.co/J5zqI7dqPP

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"But things got a lot more entertaining when Princeton’s Carolyn Rouse, president of the American Anthropological Association, sat for an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education that deserves its own chapter in the annals of academic malpractice." https://t.co/OYosWjEQtA

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The Education Exchange: Charters’ “Lost Decade” Found Again? After a pre-pandemic dip in performance, charters are showing signs of recovery in Boston. https://t.co/vvxvclTyGA

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"The appeal of Maynard’s vision is obvious. It promises a more humane alternative to the false choice between permissiveness and punishment that has long characterized debates over school discipline." https://t.co/brtUb5KtdE

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"While declining enrollment in America’s traditional public schools is turning into a slow-moving crisis, participation in microschools is set to blast off." https://t.co/G3bsbf5oKp

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"The most recent data are striking. Among 2025–26 homeschool registration records with a stated reason, 51.5 percent cited public school dissatisfaction." https://t.co/03Y5CS6msu

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Anthropology Jumps the Shark: The recent Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship in the social sciences elicits a response that will live in infamy. https://t.co/OYosWjEQtA