Media Coverage

2022

Fordham

Not much to show nationally from a decade of teacher evaluation reforms

Article | by Victoria McDougald January 13, 2021

$oop$

Don't Give Up on Teacher Evaluation Reforms

Article | by Eric Lerum January 10, 2022

2021

16 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2021

Article | by Kevin Mahnken December 15, 2021

PROOF POINTS: Nationwide, evaluating and penalizing teachers rarely works

Article | by Jill Barshay December 13, 2021

Efforts to Toughen Teacher Evaluations Show No Positive Impact on Students

Article | by Madeline Will — November 29, 2021

What do teachers think of their evaluation feedback?

Article | by Patricia Saenz-Armstrong October 28, 2021

When Teachers Strike, Education Becomes More Prevalent in Political Campaigns, Study Finds

Article | by Madeline Will October 27, 2021

The real cost of classroom interruptions

Article | by Simon Creasey October 15, 2021

As schools return to in-person learning, demand for online tutoring remains high

Article | by Cyrus Farivar September 2, 2021

Research: Intercom Announcements & Other Interruptions Cost Up to 20 Days of School

Article | by Erik Ofgang August 9, 2021

Higher Grades, Higher Earnings: New Study Ties In-School Mentoring with Huge Benefits for Students

Article | by Kevin Mahnken July 29, 2021

When Teachers and School Counselors Become Informal Mentors, Students Thrive

Article | by Madeline Will July 29, 2021

wyfi

Can Tutoring Help Students Recover From The Pandemic? This Indy School Hopes So

Article | by Lee V. Gaines July 26, 2021

Classroom Interruptions! Should Schools Be Concerned If Instruction Is Impacted By Late Students...

Article | by Zac Abeel and Don McLaughlin July 23, 2021

Prioritizing Learning Time Post-Pandemic

Article | by Mike McShane July 23, 2021

Social Studies: The wages of politics, sports specialization, and the problem with intercoms

Article | by Kevin Lewis July 21, 2021

Addressing unfinished learning with targeted help and high-dosage tutoring

Article | May 18, 2021

The Boston Public Schools are getting a giant stimulus check. Time to think big.

Article | May 15, 2021

Study: Tutoring May Mitigate Pandemic Learning Loss

Article | May 13, 2021

COVID-19 has upended education. How will schools solve for learning loss?

Article | by Maddie Hanna, Kristen A. Graham and Melanie Burney April 8, 2021

High-Dosage Tutoring: Can Technology Help Curb Learning Loss?

Article | by Erik Ofgang April 4, 2021.

The tutoring revolution: How it could transform education

Article |
by Stephanie Hanes March 16, 2021

More non-white than white parents prefer remote learning for their children'

Article | March 14, 2021.

Teachers grapple with how to help students scarred by pandemic

Article |
by Andrew Jack March 7, 2021

Here's what a national tutoring system might look like

Article |
by Matt Zalaznick February 19, 2021.

Now Recruiting: Online Army of Volunteer Tutors To Fight ‘COVID Slide’

Article |
by Greg Toppo February 8, 2021.

Here’s a plan to fix the COVID-19 education backslide. Could it work in Fort Worth?

Article |
by Silas Allen February 8, 2021.

What can England learn from international catch-up strategies?

Article |
by Emily Yeomans January 29, 2021

2020

What Would a National Tutoring Program Look Like? Can We Afford It?

Article |
by Stephen Sawchuk December 16, 2020.

How Can Virtual Tutoring Help Students During Distance Learning?

Article | by
Patrick Wall, Chalkbeat Newark December 16, 2020.

chalkbeat

Evidence of learning loss is piling up. Here’s how the U.S. could design a tutoring program to help.

Article | by
By Matt Barnum December 9, 2020.

NCQT

Strengthening the teacher workforce even before they enter the classroom

Article | by
Patricia Saenz-Armstrong November 23, 2020.

‘This is a very challenging time’: Teaching, researching, parenting amid COVID-19

Article | by Rahma Ibrahim November 8, 2020.

Survey: More than Half of Teachers Felt Less Successful After COVID-19

Article | by Kevin Mahnken October 21, 2020.

Why Tutoring Could Just Make Covid-Related Learning Loss Worse

Article | by Natalie Wexler. Octover 12, 2020.

Using Tutors to Combat COVID Learning Loss: New Research Shows That Even Lightly Trained Volunteers Drive Academic Gains

Article | Moderated by Kevin Mahnkhe n September 30, 2020.

Does experience make the best teacher?

Article | By Shayna Levitan September 24, 2020.

Will This Be a Lost Year for America’s Children?

Article | Moderated by Emily Bazelon September 11, 2020.

Teachers Felt Less Successful During the Spring School Closures, Survey Finds

Article | By Madeline Will August 26, 2020.

High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive. Ideas for Making It Work

Article | By Stephen Sawchuk August 19, 2020.

What It Will Take to Combat the COVID-Slide

Article | August 14, 2020.

England is launching a national tutoring program. Could the U.S. follow suit?

Article | By Matt Barnum August 10, 2020.

As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?

Article | July 18, 2020.

Parents turn to private “pods” to school children

Podcast | July 9, 2020.

Why Small Classroom Interruptions are a Big Problem

Interview | by Phyllis W. Jordan July 7, 2020.

What classroom interruptions cost students and how to avoid them

Article | by Jay Mathews July 5, 2020.

The Education Gadfly Show: How assessment data can drive instruction this fall

Interview | by Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Tran Le Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.July 1, 2020.

*coverage beings at minute 17

2 New Surveys Find Teachers Stressed by Shutdown, Unable to Contact Students and Feeling Their Confidence Drop

Article | by Beth Hawkins. June 29, 2020.

America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went

Article | by Matt Barnum and Claire Bryan. June 26, 2020.

Want to Maximize School Learning When Schools Reopen? Minimize Classroom Interruptions.

Article| by Madeline Will. June 25, 2020.

Typical Providence Classroom Interrupted Over 2,000 Times a Year, Says a Brown Researcher.

Article | by Katie Nagle. June 24, 2020.

ROBERT SLAVIN'S BLOG

Large-Scale Tutoring as a Solution for School Closure Losses: Is the Idea Taking Hold?

Blog | by Robert Slavin. June 18, 2020.

Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss

Article | by Jill Barshay. May 25, 2020.

The School Year Really Ended in March

Article | by Susan Dynarski. May 7, 2020

What Students Can Do On A Gap Year During the Pandemic

Article | by Michael Horn. May 7, 2020.

chronicle

3 Ideas to Reduce Educational Disparities Post-Pandemic

Article | by Goldie Blumenstyk. May 6, 2020.

Are Math Coaches the Answer to Lagging Achievement?

Article | by Madeline Will. May 5, 2020.

chalkbeat

Students will go back to school eventually. Here are 5 concrete ideas for helping them catch up, readjust

Article | by Matt Barnum and Kalyn Belsha. April 16, 2020.

Personal Touch Beats Technology for Parent-School Communication, School Finds

Article | by Jake Maher. February 20, 2020.

2019

Teacher Looping Improves Student Outcomes Blog Post \| by Leigh Wedenoja. November 21, 2019.	Evaluators Require Expertise BLOG POST \| by Amber Moorer. November 2019.	Newark Schools are Short Dozens of Teachers, Leading to Bigger Classes, More Substitutes ARTICLE \| by Patrick Wall. October 18, 2019.	We Need Interventions that Improve Student Learning. But How Big is a Big Impact? BLOG \| by David Evans. August 26, 2019.
Debate Arises over Teaching "Growth Mindsets" to Motivate Students Article \| by Lydia Denworth. August 12, 2019.	The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning ARTICLE \| by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019.	The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning ARTICLE \| by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019.	Bloom, New Orleans, and Effect Sizes BLOG POST \| May 30, 2019.
"How Much Should I Care?" BLOG POST \| by Jeff Archer. March 16, 2019.	Interpreting Effect Sizes in Eduation Research BLOG POST \| by Matthew Di Carlo. March 12, 2019.	How to interpret effect sizes in education ARTICLE \| by C.J. Rauch. January 21, 2019.

Teacher Looping Improves Student Outcomes

Blog Post | by Leigh Wedenoja. November 21, 2019.

Evaluators Require Expertise

BLOG POST | by Amber Moorer. November 2019.

NJ Spotlight

Newark Schools are Short Dozens of Teachers, Leading to Bigger Classes, More Substitutes

ARTICLE | by Patrick Wall. October 18, 2019.

Center for Global Development

We Need Interventions that Improve Student Learning. But How Big is a Big Impact?

BLOG | by David Evans. August 26, 2019.

Debate Arises over Teaching "Growth Mindsets" to Motivate Students

Article | by Lydia Denworth. August 12, 2019.

The New Yorker

The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning

ARTICLE | by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019.

The New Yorker

The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning

ARTICLE | by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019.

Bloom, New Orleans, and Effect Sizes

BLOG POST | May 30, 2019.

The Medium

"How Much Should I Care?"

BLOG POST | by Jeff Archer. March 16, 2019.

Interpreting Effect Sizes in Eduation Research

BLOG POST | by Matthew Di Carlo. March 12, 2019.

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How to interpret effect sizes in education

ARTICLE | by C.J. Rauch. January 21, 2019.

2018

What Works for Teacher Math Coaching? A First Attempt to Find Out

ARTICLE | by Stephen Sawchuck. November 19, 2018.

A month into school, dozens of JCPS classes lack a permanent teacher

ARTICLE | by Mandy McLaren September 21, 2018.

Instructional Coaching Works, Says a New Analysis. But There's a Catch

ARTICLE | by Madeline Will. July 31, 2018.

5 Lessons From the Failure of The Gate's Foundation's $575 Million Effective Teacher Initiative

ARTICLE | by Frederick Hess. June 25, 2018.

High-Stakes Evaluation: Does It Scare Teachers Away?

BLOG POST | by Elias Walsh. May 22, 2018.

Study: Teacher Coaching Can Boost Instruction and Student Achievement. But Can It Be Scaled Up?

ARTICLE | by Kevin Mahnken. March 27, 2018.

Are Evaluation and Tenure Reforms Scaring Away Prospective Teachers?

ARTICLE | by Madeline Will. March 6, 2018.

Has Evaluation Reform Chased Away Competent Would-Be Teachers?

BLOG POST | by Rick Hess. February 15, 2018.

Did new evaluations and weaker tenure make fewer people want to become teachers? A new study says yes

ARTICLE | by Matt Barnum. January 30, 2018.

2017

Using Test Scores Tends to Lower Teacher-Evaluation Ratings, Study Shows

ARTICLE | by Liana Loewus. November 1, 2017.

What parents and teachers really want from one another.

ARTICLE | by Joanna Weiss . September 26, 2017.

High turnover, less experience - how charter schools compare to the districts and what it means for students.

ARTICLE | by Elenor Chute. August 17, 2017.

Why principals lie to ineffective teachers: Honesty takes too long.

COMMENTARY | by Jay Mathews. August 13, 2017.

Principals Are Loath to Give Teachers Bad Ratings.

ARTICLE | by Liana Loewus. July 13, 2017.

Expert finds New Mexico teacher evaluations toughest in US.

ARTICLE | July 09, 2017.

Expert: NM teacher evals are toughest in the nation.

ARTICLE | by Kim Burgess. July 06, 2017.

Teacher Coaching: What We Know

BLOG POST | by David Evans . July 05, 2017.

Even After Colorado's Teacher Evaluation 'Revolution', Fewer Than One in 1,000 Rated Ineffective.

ARTICLE | by Matt Barnum. May 3, 2017.

A Form of Professional Development That Research Shows Might Actually Help Teachers: Coaching.

ARTICLE | by Matt Barnum. April 16, 2017.

The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight: What the Obama administration's signature reform got wrong.

ARTICLE | by Chad Aldeman. Spring 2017.

2016

New study shows variety in teachers’ influences on kids’ futures, and how poorly we measure that.

ARTICLE | by Meredith Kolodner. November 21, 2016.

One More Way Low-Income Kids Suffer in School: Tardy Teacher Hires.

ARTICLE | by Sean Eckhardt. September 30, 2016.

Study: Students Suffer When Teachers Are Hired After the School Year Starts.

BLOG POST | by Brenda Iasevoli. September 26, 2016.

The Details Matter In Teacher Evaluations.

BLOG POST | by Matthew Di Carlo. September 22, 2016.

Teaching the teachers.

ARTICLE | June 11, 2016.

Academic vs. non-academic outcomes: a troubling trade-off.

COMMENTARY | by Allison Brady. April 28, 2016.

5 Key Lessons from the Successes (and Failures) of President Obama’s Teacher Evaluation Reforms.

ARTICLE | by Matt Barnum. April 3, 2016.

School conditions matter for student achievement, new research confirms.

ARTICLE | by Alex Zimmerman. March 24, 2016.

Improving the design of teacher evaluation systems.

BLOG POST | by Michael Hansen. March 17, 2016.

Evaluating The Results Of New Teacher Evaluation Systems.

BLOG POST | by Matthew Di Carlo. March 24, 2016.

Save more money, fire fewer people and boost student achievement? How one district weathered the Great Recession.

Article| by Autumn Lewis. March 24, 2016.

Some New Teacher Evaluation Systems Do Make a Difference.

COMMENTARY | by Tomat Toch. March 22, 2016.

When Fancy New Teacher-Evaluation Systems Don't Make a Difference.

BLOG POST | by Rick Hess. March 8, 2016.

Despite Teacher-Evaluation Changes, the 'Widget Effect' Is Alive and Well.

BLOG POST | by Stephen Sawchuk. March 1, 2016.

Very few teachers receive poor job ratings, and new evaluations haven’t changed that.

ARTICLE | by Emma Brown. February 29, 2016.

The Happiness Factor: Research Moves Beyond Test Scores to Find Strongest Teacher.

ARTICLE | by Matt Barnum. February 18, 2016.

It Takes a (Whole) School: The Organizational Supports Teachers Need to Serve Students in High-Poverty Urban Schools.

ARTICLE | by Bari Walsh. February 1, 2016.

2015

High-poverty schools often staffed by rotating cast of substitutes.

ARTICLE | by Emma Brown. December 4, 2015.

What Can Be Done To Improve Parent-Teacher Communication?

ARTICLE | by Linda Flanagan. November 17, 2015.

Study: Who's Fired When Principals Get to Choose?

REPORT ROUNDUP | by Stephen Sawchuk. August 19, 2015.

Goldilocks and the econometric models.

COMMENTARY | by Hannah Putnam. August 18, 2015.

Recent Evidence On Teacher Experience And Productivity.

BLOG POST | by Matthew Di Carlo. August 12, 2015.

New study: Ignoring teacher performance in layoffs hurts kids.

ARTICLE | by Matt Barnum. August 10, 2015.

New Studies Find That, for Teachers, Experience Really Does Matter.

ARTICLE | by Stephen Sawchuk. March 25, 2015.

2014

Parental involvement overrated? Don't buy it.

COMMENTARY | by Todd Rogers, Lucas Coffman, and Peter Bergman. May 5, 2014.

Smart Phones for Smart Kids.

COMMENTARY | by Jonh Doerr. August 21, 2014.

The Character Factory.

COMMENTARY | by David Brooks. July 31, 2014.

Fordham

Not much to show nationally from a decade of teacher evaluation reforms

Article | by Victoria McDougald January 13, 2021

Don't Give Up on Teacher Evaluation Reforms

Article | by Eric Lerum January 10, 2022

2021

16 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2021

Article | by Kevin Mahnken December 15, 2021

PROOF POINTS: Nationwide, evaluating and penalizing teachers rarely works

Article | by Jill Barshay December 13, 2021

Efforts to Toughen Teacher Evaluations Show No Positive Impact on Students

Article | by Madeline Will — November 29, 2021

What do teachers think of their evaluation feedback?

Article | by Patricia Saenz-Armstrong October 28, 2021

When Teachers Strike, Education Becomes More Prevalent in Political Campaigns, Study Finds

Article | by Madeline Will October 27, 2021

The real cost of classroom interruptions

Article | by Simon Creasey October 15, 2021

As schools return to in-person learning, demand for online tutoring remains high

Article | by Cyrus Farivar September 2, 2021

Research: Intercom Announcements & Other Interruptions Cost Up to 20 Days of School

Article | by Erik Ofgang August 9, 2021

Higher Grades, Higher Earnings: New Study Ties In-School Mentoring with Huge Benefits for Students

Article | by Kevin Mahnken July 29, 2021

When Teachers and School Counselors Become Informal Mentors, Students Thrive

Article | by Madeline Will July 29, 2021

wyfi

Can Tutoring Help Students Recover From The Pandemic? This Indy School Hopes So

Article | by Lee V. Gaines July 26, 2021

Classroom Interruptions! Should Schools Be Concerned If Instruction Is Impacted By Late Students...

Article | by Zac Abeel and Don McLaughlin July 23, 2021

Prioritizing Learning Time Post-Pandemic

Article | by Mike McShane July 23, 2021

Social Studies: The wages of politics, sports specialization, and the problem with intercoms

Article | by Kevin Lewis July 21, 2021

Addressing unfinished learning with targeted help and high-dosage tutoring

Article | May 18, 2021

The Boston Public Schools are getting a giant stimulus check. Time to think big.

Article | May 15, 2021

Study: Tutoring May Mitigate Pandemic Learning Loss

Article | May 13, 2021

COVID-19 has upended education. How will schools solve for learning loss?

Article | by Maddie Hanna, Kristen A. Graham and Melanie Burney April 8, 2021

High-Dosage Tutoring: Can Technology Help Curb Learning Loss?

Article | by Erik Ofgang April 4, 2021.

The tutoring revolution: How it could transform education

Article |
by Stephanie Hanes March 16, 2021

More non-white than white parents prefer remote learning for their children'

Article | March 14, 2021.

Teachers grapple with how to help students scarred by pandemic

Article |
by Andrew Jack March 7, 2021

Here's what a national tutoring system might look like

Article |
by Matt Zalaznick February 19, 2021.

Now Recruiting: Online Army of Volunteer Tutors To Fight ‘COVID Slide’

Article |
by Greg Toppo February 8, 2021.

Here’s a plan to fix the COVID-19 education backslide. Could it work in Fort Worth?

Article |
by Silas Allen February 8, 2021.

What can England learn from international catch-up strategies?

Article |
by Emily Yeomans January 29, 2021

2020

What Would a National Tutoring Program Look Like? Can We Afford It?

Article |
by Stephen Sawchuk December 16, 2020.

How Can Virtual Tutoring Help Students During Distance Learning?

Article | by
Patrick Wall, Chalkbeat Newark December 16, 2020.

chalkbeat

Evidence of learning loss is piling up. Here’s how the U.S. could design a tutoring program to help.

Article | by
By Matt Barnum December 9, 2020.

NCQT

Strengthening the teacher workforce even before they enter the classroom

Article | by
Patricia Saenz-Armstrong November 23, 2020.

‘This is a very challenging time’: Teaching, researching, parenting amid COVID-19

Article | by Rahma Ibrahim November 8, 2020.

Survey: More than Half of Teachers Felt Less Successful After COVID-19

Article | by Kevin Mahnken October 21, 2020.

Why Tutoring Could Just Make Covid-Related Learning Loss Worse

Article | by Natalie Wexler. Octover 12, 2020.

Using Tutors to Combat COVID Learning Loss: New Research Shows That Even Lightly Trained Volunteers Drive Academic Gains

Article | Moderated by Kevin Mahnkhe n September 30, 2020.

Does experience make the best teacher?

Article | By Shayna Levitan September 24, 2020.

Will This Be a Lost Year for America’s Children?

Article | Moderated by Emily Bazelon September 11, 2020.

Teachers Felt Less Successful During the Spring School Closures, Survey Finds

Article | By Madeline Will August 26, 2020.

High-Dosage Tutoring Is Effective, But Expensive. Ideas for Making It Work

Article | By Stephen Sawchuk August 19, 2020.

What It Will Take to Combat the COVID-Slide

Article | August 14, 2020.

England is launching a national tutoring program. Could the U.S. follow suit?

Article | By Matt Barnum August 10, 2020.

As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?

Article | July 18, 2020.

Parents turn to private “pods” to school children

Podcast | July 9, 2020.

Why Small Classroom Interruptions are a Big Problem

Interview | by Phyllis W. Jordan July 7, 2020.

What classroom interruptions cost students and how to avoid them

Article | by Jay Mathews July 5, 2020.

The Education Gadfly Show: How assessment data can drive instruction this fall

Interview | by Michael J. Petrilli David Griffith Tran Le Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.July 1, 2020.

*coverage beings at minute 17

2 New Surveys Find Teachers Stressed by Shutdown, Unable to Contact Students and Feeling Their Confidence Drop

Article | by Beth Hawkins. June 29, 2020.

America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went

Article | by Matt Barnum and Claire Bryan. June 26, 2020.

Want to Maximize School Learning When Schools Reopen? Minimize Classroom Interruptions.

Article| by Madeline Will. June 25, 2020.

Typical Providence Classroom Interrupted Over 2,000 Times a Year, Says a Brown Researcher.

Article | by Katie Nagle. June 24, 2020.

ROBERT SLAVIN'S BLOG

Large-Scale Tutoring as a Solution for School Closure Losses: Is the Idea Taking Hold?

Blog | by Robert Slavin. June 18, 2020.

Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss

Article | by Jill Barshay. May 25, 2020.

The School Year Really Ended in March

Article | by Susan Dynarski. May 7, 2020

What Students Can Do On A Gap Year During the Pandemic

Article | by Michael Horn. May 7, 2020.

chronicle

3 Ideas to Reduce Educational Disparities Post-Pandemic

Article | by Goldie Blumenstyk. May 6, 2020.

Are Math Coaches the Answer to Lagging Achievement?

Article | by Madeline Will. May 5, 2020.

chalkbeat

Students will go back to school eventually. Here are 5 concrete ideas for helping them catch up, readjust

Article | by Matt Barnum and Kalyn Belsha. April 16, 2020.

Personal Touch Beats Technology for Parent-School Communication, School Finds

Article | by Jake Maher. February 20, 2020.

2019

Teacher Looping Improves Student Outcomes Blog Post \| by Leigh Wedenoja. November 21, 2019.	Evaluators Require Expertise BLOG POST \| by Amber Moorer. November 2019.	Newark Schools are Short Dozens of Teachers, Leading to Bigger Classes, More Substitutes ARTICLE \| by Patrick Wall. October 18, 2019.	We Need Interventions that Improve Student Learning. But How Big is a Big Impact? BLOG \| by David Evans. August 26, 2019.
Debate Arises over Teaching "Growth Mindsets" to Motivate Students Article \| by Lydia Denworth. August 12, 2019.	The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning ARTICLE \| by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019.	The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning ARTICLE \| by E. Tammy Kim. July 10, 2019.	Bloom, New Orleans, and Effect Sizes BLOG POST \| May 30, 2019.
"How Much Should I Care?" BLOG POST \| by Jeff Archer. March 16, 2019.	Interpreting Effect Sizes in Eduation Research BLOG POST \| by Matthew Di Carlo. March 12, 2019.	How to interpret effect sizes in education ARTICLE \| by C.J. Rauch. January 21, 2019.