K-12 Education

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The evaluation roadmap for optimizing pre-K programs

Anna D. Johnson, Deborah A. Phillips, and Owen Schochet

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Students cross a street to enter for the first day of classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper - RC1EFE4D0510

Schools need to educate our sons and daughters that no means no

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Students at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School use their laptops during a class in Dorchester, Massachusetts June 20, 2008. From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves. To match feature USA-EDUCATION/TECHNOLOGY REUTERS/Adam Hunger (UNITED STATES) - GM1E4770O4801

Are states providing adequate financial literacy education?

Matt Kasman, Benjamin Heuberger, and Ross A. Hammond

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard (R) speaks with Disney II Elementary School principal Bogdana Chkoumbova (C) in Chicago, September 26, 2011. Disney is one of 13 Chicago public schools which have decided to be early adopters of a plan to add 90 minutes to the school day, a scheme pushed hard by new Mayor Rahm Emanuel who says it is necessary to improve the city's K-12 education. Picture taken September 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E79T05FP01

Strong principals retain effective teachers—and don’t retain ineffective ones

Jason A. Grissom

Friday, September 28, 2018

Students attend political debate at the Cathedral School in Hamar, Norway September 1, 2017. Picture taken September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Lefteris Karagiannopoulos - RC1EC9E155C0

A counterintuitive proposal for improving education and healing America: Debate-centered instruction

Robert E. Litan

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Students listen to their teacher during a lesson at the Islamabad College for girls in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC15B45AD320

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Why doctors and mayors will be the next playful learning advocates

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As kids go back to school, these are the education story lines experts are watching

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington September 9, 2015. Classes were cancelled for 53,000 students as Seattle teachers and support staff marched in picket lines on Wednesday on what was supposed to be the first day of school, waging their first such strike in three decades after contract talks between the school district and the teachers' union failed. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight - GF10000199643

Teachers aren’t getting younger, we’re just paying them less

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Four-year old Tom (R) and his six-year old sister Lisa from Offenbach show Serbian refugee Dragan (2nd L) and his sister Tamara (L) how to play on the climbing frame at a refugee camp in Hanau, Germany, August 18, 2015. Tom and Lisa learned from her mother that a lot of refugees come to Germany and most of them, especially the children, don't have much clothes or toys to play with. The two German youngsters than decided to visit the refugee camp to donate from their own wardrobe and toys and "make friends" with the kids from abroad. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach - GF10000175689

Learning Landscapes: Can urban planning and the learning sciences work together to help children?

Brenna Hassinger-Das, Andres S. Bustamante, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Susan Magsamen, Jenny Perlman Robinson, and Rebecca Winthrop

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in Washington, D.C.

A progress report on Betsy DeVos’ education agenda

Elizabeth Mann Levesque and Fred Dews

Friday, August 24, 2018

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Millennial teachers of color will change public schools—if given the chance

Mary E. Dilworth

Friday, August 24, 2018

Children play with soap bubbles created by a street performer at Rizal park in Luneta, metro Manila, Philippines May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19387EB200

A prescription for play

Michael Yogman and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Children play chess at a classroom in the Dezso Lemhenyi school, which uses the new Chess Palace teaching programme of the world's best female chess player Judit Polgar, in Budapest October 15, 2013. With names like Jumpy Horse, Boom Rook and Tiny Pawn, pieces in the Chess Palace come to life and are like close friends who guide the children through difficult school subjects. They range in size from 1 cm (under half an inch) tall to a meter (three feet) in height. Chairs, walls and carpets also sport chess motifs. The pieces, whose combinations and moves represent mathematical, linguistic or musical patterns, help children develop their skills in chess and in their school studies while making the learning process a more joyous exercise. Picture taken October 15, 2013.REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh (HUNGARY - Tags: SPORT CHESS EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E9AO1NK501

The power of play: A pediatric role in enhancing development in young children

Michael Yogman, Andrew Garner, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Monday, August 20, 2018

A teacher reads with a student

Teachers in the US are even more segregated than students

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

A girl plays at a Lego store in Beijing, China January 13, 2018. Picture taken January 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC1E40F51250

Why a gender perspective is important for early childhood educators in China

Monday, August 13, 2018

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

Thursday, August 9, 2018

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Strengthening the social studies teacher workforce in America

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Trainee math teacher Mia Shaw from the Teach for America program teaches a class at George Washington Carver Middle School in Los Angeles, California July 18, 2012. This fall Teach for America will send a record 10,000 teachers into classrooms from New York to California. The nonprofit boasts $300 million in assets and collects tens of millions a year in public funds, even at a time of steep cuts to education budgets. But critics, including a handful of disillusioned alumni, contend that policies promoted by TFA-trained reformers threaten to damage the very schools they once set out to save. They argue, too, that TFA's relentless push to expand has betrayed its founding ideals. Picture taken July 18, 2012. To match Feature USA-EDUCATION/TEACHFORAMERICA REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIETY POVERTY WEALTH) - RTR36W0M

School policies and the success of advantaged and disadvantaged students

David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbownik

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Children listen to their teacher on the first day of the new school year in a primary school in Nice

Tax credits can help high-poverty schools attract more teachers

Dick Startz and Kate Walsh

Monday, July 30, 2018