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Educational Pluralism: A New Education Conversation
Director Ashley Berner joins Hopkins At Home to discuss different education models and what we can learn from them.
Executive Director David Steiner Quoted in The Atlantic
Since 2020, 1.5 million children have been removed from public schools to attend private or charter schools or be homeschooled, writes The Atlantic. Executive Director David Steiner discusses the implications. “It’s an open question whether the public-school system will recover,” Steiner said. “That is a real concern for democratic education.”
Reading Reimagined: A New Inclusive Research & Development Initiative
“Conceived as a program under AERDF, the Advanced Education Research & Development Fund, Reading Reimagined is a multi-year inclusive research and development (R&D) program that seeks to address a foundational barrier that impacts both students and educators alike: a lack of comprehensive, research-based instructional materials designed specifically for the students our system has most neglected.” The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy serves as a research partner for this initiative.
The Journal of Human Resources: An Experimental Evaluation of Culturally Enriching Field Trips by Heidi H. Erickson, Angela R. Watson, and Jay P. Greene
Congratulations to Angela Watson, Heidi H. Erickson, and Jay P. Greene on their new publication in The Journal of Human Resources and available as a pre-print. The results from their longitudinal experiment show that attending cultural experiences, such as field trips, do no harm to students, may raise test scores, and increase tolerance.