We’ve looked at the first public school in the U.S., what education was like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1635, and what the Bray School tells us about education around the time of the Revolutionary War. We also looked at the Lancaster Monitorial system from the early decades of the 19th century before shifting […]
Well, this was fascinating. In an era when reading scores are continuing to fall, The 74 just ran an article about schools that were beating the odds in literacy rates. In a very large study, the authors compared predicted literacy rates based on each school’s poverty level to actual literacy rates for third graders in […]
So far we’ve looked at the first public school in the U.S., what education was like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1635, and what the Bray School tells us about education around the time of the Revolutionary War. We also looked at the Lancaster Monitorial system from the early decades of the 19th century […]
It’s an understatement to say that the most recent NAEP results from 2024 were less than encouraging. Most students are still performing below pre-pandemic levels, which means we haven’t been able to recoup the learning loss that occurred over the two years when classes were disrupted by Covid-19. In 2024, the average reading score for […]
So far we’ve looked at the first public school in the U.S., what education was like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1635, and what the Bray School tells us about education around the time of the Revolutionary War. We also looked at the Lancaster Monitorial system from the early decades of the 19th century […]
In Part I, we discussed at length the limitations AI has when used to generate texts or even just supposedly factual information about a wide array of topics. Those limitations, which include frequent factual inaccuracy and amplified racial, gender, and other biases, are disturbing, and as such, have important implications for how AI can and […]
I’m pausing our series on the history of American education to discuss something that we’ve begun to encounter in our work with client districts: the use of AI to grade student essays and other work. AI — artificial intelligence — is cropping up everywhere, even as the ethics of its use have yet to be […]
So far we’ve looked at the first public school in the U.S., what education was like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1635, and what the Bray School tells us about education around the time of the Revolutionary War. We also looked at the Lancaster Monitorial system from the early decades of the 19th century. […]
So far we’ve looked at the first public school in the U.S., what education was like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1635, and what the Bray School tells us about education around the time of the Revolutionary War. Today, we’re going to jump ahead again to the first decades of the 19th century and […]
In the last two posts, we talked about the first public school in the U.S. and what education was like in the Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1635. Today, we’re going to jump ahead 125 years and talk about a truly unique school in the American colonies: The Bray School. On September 29, 1760, a school […]