Issues in Education

 

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The Merits of Merit Pay

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Does paying teachers based on how well their students perform lead to better teaching? There’s no shortage of polarizing issues when it comes to education, but...

 
 

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Arts and Smarts

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Top-performing schools have higher participation in the arts. More than 2,000 years ago, the Greeks listed music as one of the three essential subjects of their...

 
 

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Advise and Conquer

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Can centralized advising boost four-year graduation rates? Iris Camille Claudio With two fall classes behind it and another on the way, UT’s experiment with centralized...

 
 

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The Vanishing Latino Male

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Using Mentorship to Close the Latino Higher Ed Gap. With a Ph.D. behind his name, Victor Saenz knows he is among the 0.1 percent of this country’s Latino male...

 
 

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Reading Boot Camp

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For students who are years behind on their reading level, catching them up takes individualized instruction—and hours and hours of practice. For some kids, learning...

 
 

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Un-principal-ed

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Only about half of high school principals in Texas stay in one job for three years, and the schools most in need of steady, long-term leadership are the least likely...

 
 

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Play Hard, Work Hard

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Cutting physical education in order to boost test scores has the opposite effect, studies show. There’s a certain amount of irony here. For several years now,...

 
 

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Do Unto Yourself

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Self-compassion might be the next big classroom catchphrase. Illustration by Dave Cutler If the phrase “self-compassion” sounds a little indulgent, well, there...

 
 

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Fish Labs

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Freshman Research Initiative gets students innovating early. As a species, Homo sapiens is nothing if not innovative. We’ve harnessed fire, forged steel, cured...

 
 

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Testing the Tests

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How a test is designed affects the score it produces and whether that number is a faithful measure of a student’s actual knowledge. A test aims to evaluate a student’s...

 
 
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