Education Policy Blog: Hosted by the Forum on the Future of Public Education

New models of funding higher education are currently being considered in debates throughout America. One recent debate concerns funding through “Pay It Forward” (PIF) programs. Since 2013, a...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/should-states-pay-it-forward-for-higher.html

Cross-post by Larry Cuban As public charter schools have grown across the country since the early 1990s to more than 6,400 still largely located in big cities (there are 100,000 regular schoo...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/charter-schools-politics-and-democracy.html

Webinar/Seminar: Dr. Kristen Buras – Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance (Tue, April 7th, 1pm (PDT)/3pm (CDT)) Dear colleagues and friends, You...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/upcoming-webinar-charter-schools-race.html

Recently, Dr. Christopher Lubienski and I were pleased to have our research , regarding media influence in education, published in the journal Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). Better y...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/expertise-advocacy-and-media-influence.html

Networks of intermediary organizations (IONs) are penetrating the education policy space with a range of ideas and “evidence,” brokering knowledge to policy actors and the public at large. I...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/e-advocacy-and-e-vidence-how-do.html

Among the myriad battles that comprise the existential wars over the fate of higher education in the 21st century, the controversy over Massive Open Online Courses—or MOOCs—seems to have all...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/one-format-to-rule-them-all-or-how-i.html

THE FORUM ON THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION PRESENTS: THE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION/MARKETIZATION ON TEACHER PREPARATION & THE TEACHING PROFESSION April 13-14 Alice Campbell Alumni Center ...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/impact-of-privatizationmarketization-on.html

Recently, the media and internet has been blowing up over the higher education budget cuts proposed by Tea-Party associated governors:  Scott Walker (WI), Bobby Jindal (LA), Doug Ducey (AZ), a...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/stop-acting-surprised-over-higher.html

Cross Post from the Scholars Strategy Network . At all levels from kindergarten to twelfth grade, American schools are making huge investments in digital education – with proponents often t...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/schools-are-racing-to-adopt-digital.html

Join us on Thursday, March 5, for two public events that are part of the 2015 Cline Symposium, “RESTORING THE PROMISE OF HIGHER EDUCATION.” The Cline Symposium is a major campus-wide event ...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/upcoming-event-restoring-promise-of.html

Last week the state of North Carolina expanded the use virtual education  within the state.  The State Board of Education approved its first fulltime degree granting virtual charter schools ...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/on-virtual-charter-schools-research.html

Cross Posted from the Salt Lake Tribune On Jan. 9, President Obama outlined a plan to make "community colleges free for responsible students across America." Inspired by new policies underway i...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/free-community-college-study-details.html

The fiftieth anniversary of the ESEA is coming up in April of 2015, and we’ll be hearing a lot about it – you know, “looking forward, looking back.”  Make no mistake, I adore history an...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/esea-at-50-in-mood-to-take-risks.html

 Notwithstanding the great public relations machine that the charter school movement uses, scholars continue to debate the role of charter schools in the United States. Research suggests that c...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-charter-school-paradox-in-new.html

Prior to a grand jury failing to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson , Missouri this summer, Richard Rothstein released an important report examining the broader structural co...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/public-policies-and-contemporary.html

This is the question that we asked in a recent policy brief that was released through the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education . This policy brief is based on our pri...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/can-us-meet-its-college-completion.html

I share my preliminary study on parental choice in San Antonio, TX as a comparative to my previous study of parental choice in post-apartheid. Both these studies are important because they both...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/parental-school-choice-in-san-antonio.html

In my previous blog , I argued that since the Great Recession there had been a strong relationship between the declines of state appropriations operations revenue and undergraduate international...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/greetings-international-students-come.html

cross posted from Public Schools Central In a recent posting on his Education Week blog “Straight Up,” Rick Hess resurrected Reid Lyon’s now tired assertion that in order to reform educ...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/rick-hess-resurrects-blow-up-schools-of.html

The role of Intrinsic Motivation (IM) Theory in teaching has been growing in education research. This is particularly important as a tool for education reform that goes beyond training teachers o...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/intrinsic-motivation-in-classroom.html

This past summer, the U.S. Department of Education announced an overhaul to the evaluation metrics used to judge the effectiveness of special education programs for students with disabilities w...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-problems-of-standardizing.html

The Chilean educational system is experiencing a notorious process of discussion, both inside the country and also by international watchers . Spurred on by the 2011, 2012 and 2013 student movem...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/three-initial-but-insufficient-steps-to.html

Note: This blog is adapted from an article currently under review by Priya G. La Londe, T. Jameson Brewer, and Christopher A. Lubienski. A further analysis of the below topic will be available i...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/teach-for-all-constructing-global.html

The topic of mentoring has received a great deal of attention within the world of PK-12 education . In its best format, mentoring programs identify well-seasoned mentors who can provide encourag...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/mentoring-as-applied-to-preparation-for.html

Some policy makers, education bureaucrats, and pundits use crisis-laden narratives that the public education system is in collapse and make calls for the overhaul of public education. They send ...

http://educationpolicyblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/must-we-standardize-creativity.html