Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Recent News About Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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How a summer job may help improve school outcomes
The influence of out-of-school activities such as sports and clubs on school outcomes has been an enduring topic of interest in education.
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Could Great Hearts Academy change the face of private education?
Remote learning is hard to love.
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Did public education have it coming?
Monday’s Washington Post featured a long, front-page article by the estimable Laura Meckler titled “Public schools facing a crisis of epic proportions.
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Proof that online credit recovery has been on the rise
Recent years have seen a move to eliminate homework and relax grading standards, and struggles by teachers and students to do their work during the pandemic have accelerated this trend.
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Education’s enduring love affair with “luxury beliefs”
The proof of a powerful idea is how well it sticks. Once you hear about it “you start to see it everywhere,” as Bari Weiss puts it. She was describing “luxury beliefs,” a phrase coined by Rob Henderson, an Air Force veteran and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge, who defines luxury beliefs as “ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.
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Teacher mental health days demonstrate districts’ priorities and it’s not the students
School districts across the country have been shuttering this month following a wave of unexpected staff shortages, in what some are calling “No School November.” In Chicago, a lack of substitute teachers led to the abrupt cancelation of classes last Friday under the thinly veiled pretense of getting more students vaccinated.