How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) impact education? Many articles, books and seminars have sought to address the topic. It’s complicated. Sorting out the valuable from the snake oil only adds…
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the Academic Development Institute released the 2022 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey this week. Overall, 85% of educators agreed that their…
Larry Sand writes for American Greatness about problems associated with so-called “social emotional learning.” As a longtime teacher, I have seen firsthand that education is a fad-filled field. Culturally responsive…
Robert Pondiscio writes for the American Enterprise Institute about a largely unexamined development in American public education. In some quarters of K–12 education, perhaps most, the increased focus on social…
Nearly every public school district in North Carolina is forcing face masks on students. Researchers are sounding the alarm about the psychological, physical, social, developmental, and academic harms of masks…
Jenna Robinson of the Martin Center writes about the role of education in unifying the country. Education reformer E.D. Hirsch may have discovered the cure for our current political divisions—but…
With Coronavirus shutting down in-person schools across the country, many people are becoming concerned that their child will not be ready to advance to the next grade level. In his…
Shannon Watkins of the Martin Center devotes her latest column to the question of who teaches college students best. As a way to help professors balance their two roles, “discussion…
This week, Carolina Journal published an opinion piece by education columnist Kristen Blair. In her piece, Blair discusses the connection between bullying and a sense of belonging. Blair writes: There’s…
Mark Bauerlein writes for the Martin Center about a powerful critic of academia. People in the education policy and funding worlds don’t like Sandra Stotsky. For years she has been…
The National Bureau of Economic Research has just released a study called “Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers.” Here’s the abstract: This paper examines how elementary-aged peers…
From “Effects of the Tennessee Prekindergarten Program on children’s achievement and behavior through third grade,” an article published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, At the end of pre-k, pre-k participants in…