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The Science and Craft of Effective Teaching (opens the original)
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What does it mean to hold expertise in teaching and instruction? How can we define, measure, and develop this kind of expertise? In their new book, Becoming an Expert Teacher: Deliberate Practice for Effective Teaching, education psychologists Nidhi Sachdeva and Paul A. Kirschner tackle these questions. They translate research-backed principles of instruction into actionable advice for teachers, and they argue for the importance of consistent, purposeful practice in classroom instruction. During
Introducing The Practice Project (opens the original)
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This week, AEI and researchED launched the first two papers in a new series I’ve been working on for the better part of a year: “The Practice Project.” The premise will be familiar to regular readers of this Substack. I’ve argued for some time that if the initial impulse of the education reform movement was largely about changing systems, the next phase must focus on improving classroom practice. Of course, education policy, governance, and funding matters. But policy can only create the conditi
Dear Alpha School: I Hope You’re Right (opens the original)
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In 2014, after Success Academy posted another year of astonishing results on New York State tests, I wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News asking a deliberately provocative question: “Is Eva Moskowitz the Michael Jordan of education reform—or Mark McGwire? I have no idea, and you don’t either.” It wasn’t a cheap shot. It was a statement about evidence. Extraordinary results invite two equal and opposite temptations: belief and disbelief. I try to resist both. Rather than cheer or jeer from a
Texas Has a Theory of Education (opens the original)
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This June, the Texas State Board of Education adopted new social studies standards and a required literature reading list for its public schools. These changes follow Texas’s 2024 release of its “Bluebonnet” curriculum, a package of instructional resources for elementary school, which sparked controversy over the inclusion of Bible stories in the reading materials. Bible stories, canonical books, and “patriotic” social studies standards have each invited familiar charges of culture-war excess. P
Ban the Phones. Don’t Ban the Future. (opens the original)
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A major recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) examined one of the most popular school reforms of the moment: banning student cell phones. Using nationwide data from thousands of schools, researchers found that strict bans sharply reduced in-school phone use. But the academic results were far less dramatic than proponents likely anticipated or expected. On average, test scores barely budged. That finding doesn’t mean phone bans are misguided. It means we may be misunde
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