In Part 1 we looked at the history of the Department of Education and its critical role as a funder, collector, and disseminator of education research. In Part 2, we looked at what the DOE actually funds and what the impact of that funding is. Today, we are looking at what might be the most […]
In Part I, we discussed the important role the US Department of Education (DOE) plays in funding, collecting, and disseminating data related to education. In this post, we’re going to talk about the DOE’s role in providing funding for K-12 education. Federal education funding is distributed to states and school districts through various formulas (such […]
The Department of Education is a federal-level agency that performs several valuable and necessary functions both in education and for the country as a whole. In light of some calls to eliminate the Department of Education, it’s worth taking a closer look at what the agency actually does, and what impact it has on U.S. […]
In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to do a deeper dive on a survey published by Pew Research in April of 2024 because there were some distinctly odd things about how the data were presented. The survey had this title: About half of Americans say public K-12 education is going in […]
In Part 1, we talked about the three ways teaching is viewed culturally — as profession, job, or calling — and we looked in depth at arguments for considering teaching a profession. In Part 2, we discussed whether teaching is or should be a calling. In Part 3 we’ll look at teaching as a job […]
In Part 1, we talked about the three ways teaching is viewed culturally — as profession, job, or calling — and we looked in depth at arguments for considering teaching a profession. In Part 2, we’re going to examine teaching as a calling. In every interview I ever had for a teaching position, I was […]
It would be overstating things to say that how we define teaching is a hot topic. In light of teacher shortages and high teacher attrition, things like cultural definitions can seem a bit fringe. But I think it’s a question that bears some careful consideration because of those attrition rates, especially among new teachers, and […]
For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is updating its classification system for its citizens. The next time the U.S. census is administered in 2030, respondents will have many more options to choose from when they select their race and ethnicity. While this may seem unconnected to education, it’s not. Under the […]
A very recent study from 2023 posed the question of which type of feedback produced the best improvement in writing performance. The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied and was predicated on earlier work that suggested students who generate self-feedback using external criteria (as opposed to individual feedback provided by a […]
Edutopia publishes a list of their favorite academic studies each year and one of the studies they cited this past year was a survey of other studies on the benefits of using picture books as a part of math instruction. It’s not a meta-analysis because they weren’t crunching numbers; rather, it was a compilation of […]