Education Next@EducationNext

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.

 Cambridge, MA
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Joined May 2009
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"Regulations adopted in 2016 and 2024 contributed to rising per-student costs, which resulted in the loss of 277,658 slots for students from 2015 to 2025, according to a recent analysis by the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at HHS." bit.ly/3Uwxknl

"This is an Effort to Make Head Start More Sustainable and Accessible"

Assistant secretary at HHS explains rationale behind program overhaul

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"The importance of younger students mastering foundational math skills is nowhere to be found in Dintersmith’s book, which leaves the reader without the well-established evidence that early math fluency is essential for later math success." bit.ly/4wmtPxQ

Do Students Still Need to Learn Calculus?

A new book says no. Here’s why that’s wrong.

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"To its credit, the Australian government set up an evaluation of its law, done by Stanford’s Social Media Lab, involving more than 4,000 children aged 10 to 15, plus one parent for each." bit.ly/4qZzpnI

New Australian Law Restricts Social Media for Kids. Is It Working?

Stanford report looks at youth benchmarks after three months of aggressive countrywide regulations

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"In 2024, my colleagues and I wrote an essay titled 'Who Owns Intelligence?' We discussed animal, plant, and artificial intelligence. Scholars, including educators, must now reflect on how these forms of intelligence relate to one another." bit.ly/4cdj09g

Keeping an Open—and Optional—Mind About AI

Intelligence expert Howard Gardner expects the artificial variety will free students to pursue their interests

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"What about performance-based tenure rules? Traditionally, teachers have earned tenure after three consecutive years on the job—simply showing up to work on the first day of year 4 has enacted employment protections for life." bit.ly/3TwIqsf

The Lasting Benefits of Tougher Tenure Rules

Evidence from Tennessee

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Rick Hess reviews "By Design: How to Transform School Systems," by Mike Miles for Education Next. bit.ly/4wPFJj4

How to Run a School District Without Really Telling

Despite Mike Miles’s strong track record as an urban superintendent, his book forgets to explain how he’s done it

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"Burrows’s book helped me better understand what I find so frustrating about so many treatises on education leadership." bit.ly/4iDj0Dh

Leadership by Cliché

An iconic television director’s autobiography would be right at home on a shelf of books about education leadership

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"The bad news, though, is that none of the chatbots is as straightforward as it all should be about academic readiness, and especially about the huge risk of attending college but not completing." bit.ly/4h7FY4Z

Hey, Claude, Should I Go To College?

If we humans aren’t willing to level with young people about what to do after high school, maybe AI will

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Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, is this week's guest on the Education Exchange podcast. bit.ly/3TgDzLx

The Education Exchange: California Eyes a Big Change in School Governance

Paul E. Peterson interviews Michael Kirst, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University

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"However, in this case, Merrill v. Marana Unified School District, the district went well beyond this simple warning—in a way that raises alarming privacy concerns." bit.ly/4iHO4Sv

Public Schools’ Eye of Sauron

Surveillance of student speech is now reaching into off-campus email drafts as grounds for punishment

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"Brandeis has 12 percent fewer students than it did 12 years ago, federal data show, and the trend is even worse at the important revenue-producing graduate level." bit.ly/4qKWs5A

The Reinvention of Liberal Arts Colleges

To remain relevant amid evolving attitudes toward higher education, Brandeis University and institutions like it are redefining their purpose

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"There is no evidence—none—of any corresponding learning benefit arising from students using AI." bit.ly/4rLyCaJ

The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI

Teenagers are willingly automating cognition and learning less. Adults seem unwilling to stop them.

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ICYMI - What Massachusetts’s Portrait of a Learner Gets Right (and New York’s Doesn’t): The Bay State’s realism has a better shot than the Empire State’s impressionism. bit.ly/470YgOU

What Massachusetts’s Portrait of a Learner Gets Right (and New York’s Doesn’t)

The Bay State’s realism has a better shot than the Empire State’s impressionism

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"This time around, I was struck by how often the two of us were on the same page. At times, it felt like we spent more time skewering the performative hobbyhorses of the left and right than arguing with one another. What was going on?" bit.ly/4dO2c9r

In Search of Common Sense

With the follow-up to A Search for Common Ground now written, I’m reminded how odd the education discourse has gotten

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"The Trump administration’s proposal to transfer the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to the Department of Justice has generated predictable opposition." bit.ly/4d4tSXf

Why Moving the Office of Civil Rights from ED to DOJ Will Be Better for Families

Civil rights enforcement is law enforcement

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"A big part of the problem is that in the U.S., we tend to swing wildly between extremes. One week, AI will reinvent schools; the next, it should be banned as a developmental hazard." bit.ly/4weqgJ3

Ed "Techlash" Is in Full Swing

Will the pushback against school devices last, and will we learn the right lessons from it?

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"The academic success of second-generation Vietnamese Americans cannot be understood solely through statistics. Examining the broader systems and conditions that shaped their trajectories reveals several patterns." bit.ly/4xfo2Km

The Making of Mobility: How Vietnamese Americans Leveraged Public Schools

Denied education themselves, first-generation immigrants made it essential for their children

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Did leveled reading cause our current literacy crisis? Or is there still a place for accessible texts in pursuit of rigor for students who are learning to read, especially beyond 3rd grade? bit.ly/3SoJfmw

The Right Reading Level—or the Right Reading Challenge?

Two literacy specialists spar over the role of leveled texts in reading instruction

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"The principle is simple: Focus federal oversight on outcomes, safety, and statutory duties and stop micromanaging decisions local programs can make themselves." bit.ly/3Uwxknl

"This is an Effort to Make Head Start More Sustainable and Accessible"

Assistant secretary at HHS explains rationale behind program overhaul

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"After just five months of use, approximately 50 percent of these students engaged in 'full homework outsourcing,' meaning, they essentially stopped doing their homework independently and used AI instead." bit.ly/4rLyCaJ

The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI

Teenagers are willingly automating cognition and learning less. Adults seem unwilling to stop them.

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