Education Progress

A think tank centered on orienting education around a culture of excellence | @tracewoodgrains @ThomBriggs @edpolicyjunkie

[Education Progress @educprogress]

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Check out the CEP on the newest episode of Chalk & Talk!

Thomas and David join Anna Stokke to discuss how convictions become obstacles to evidence-based practices in education.

🎧Watch or listen to the podcast at the links below!🔗

Thanks to @rastokke for a great episode!

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

Great episode. A lot of the problems in education are ideologically driven, but some are simple mistakes of fact. Making it easier for qualified students to take advanced classes serves the public interest.

[Anna Stokke @rastokke]

🚨New episode now live! Thomas Briggs and David Shuck join me to discuss why bad education ideas can persist—even in the face of evidence.

We unpack flawed advanced math placement decisions, San Francisco's detracking experiment, the New York math briefs controversy, discussing what went wrong and why.
Link below 👇

[zzzwakeup @ThomBriggs]

Education Progress x Chalk & Talk dropped this morning, everyone should check it out 😎

In this episode @EudaimonDave and I talk with Anna about why bad education policy persists, and it was such a fun conversation to have with one of our favorite public educators today

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Why hasn't education seen as much progress as other fields over the last century, like medicine or transportation?

The answer is that education is caught between a mountain of regulations on one side, and a chaotic, unregulated wild west on the other. Read more below!

[zzzwakeup @ThomBriggs]

Interested in the story behind the current middle school algebra fiasco in San Fran? I got you covered! New article for Education Progress goes over the background to tonight's Board of Ed vote on a weird, convoluted new math program for SFUSD middle schools... (link below)

[Rahim Nathwani @RahimNathwani]

Stanford's education research center, YouCubed, revised a paper after I pointed out incorrect data. The new version revealed bigger problems.

[Joshua Dwyer @edpolicyjunkie]

New piece up at @CenterforEdProg about grade inflation - check it out! https://t.co/sQtaVsjirT

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

The excellence of America’s youth has been systematically suppressed by the institutions whose explicit job is to develop it.

For a generation, "equity" has been the hammer that ideologues have used to eliminate excellence in schools

There are 3 ways to neutralize that weapon:

1) reject the premise that "equalizing outcomes" is a worthy goal

2) show that eliminating public pathways to excellence hurts the kids who most depend on them

3) reclaim the word "equity" to include the academic needs of ALL kids, including high-achievers

Thanks to @CenterforEdProg for collaborating with me on this essay on the failures of equitable education

[zzzwakeup @ThomBriggs]

Which states have education policies that best foster student excellence?

Starting today and culminating on April 6th, Education Progress is running our first March Education Madness Tournament! Here's how it works 👇

[Joshua Dwyer @edpolicyjunkie]

I wrote and lobbied for Illinois’ tax credit scholarship program. Have a new piece up @CenterforEdProg about the new federal tax credit scholarship program - how it works, how it’s different from state programs, and what to watch for in the coming months. https://t.co/7qvn2caxV7

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Cultivating talent in American public schools has never been more important. Winning the AI race is both an economic and geopolitical urgency, and it will require caring about excellence in education again.
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The research is clear: academic acceleration benefits faster learning students academically, socially, and emotionally. Even so, US schools routinely deny it. John Boyle shows what happens when schools force brilliant children into lockstep, and what we should do instead.

[Joshua Dwyer @edpolicyjunkie]

@gtmom I would argue that it has a lot to do with ineffective advocacy organizations that work on the cause. Hoping to change that with @CenterforEdProg. I was able to pass two laws in Illinois and one in Colorado with minimal expense (very little C4, no PAC). It's doable!

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

From @ThomBriggs's latest piece for @CenterforEdProg, a pointed critique of education policy on both sides of the aisle.

"No one wants to talk about excellence":

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[Joshua Dwyer @edpolicyjunkie]

Have a new piece up at @CenterforEdProg about why college admissions are nonsense. Check it out! https://t.co/0aKbfFpy7f