Driving the data

Fordham’s A Byte at the Apple looks at education data: Schools are getting better at tracking who’s doing what but there’s plenty of room for improvement. In the future: Students...

How to make Pre-K work

Pre-K Can Work, writes Shepard Barbash in City Journal — but only it’s focused on disadvantaged children, uses effective teaching techniques and is held accountable for results....

21st century excuses

Homework’s not done? British students blame their computers, a survey finds. Of the top-five tech homework excuses, computer crashes resulting in lost essays came out on top. Others were...

Nagging for success

In Nagging for Success in City Journal, I review David Whitman’s book on paternalistic, transformative schools, Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism. “Nagging...

Brave new tests

Measures That Matter by Achieve and Education Trust sets out a “new set of basics” — standards, course requirements, curriculum and teacher support materials, aligned assessments,...