A Champion Of Democracy: Clifford B. Janey (1946–2020)
Our guest author today is Rick Kahlenberg, Director of K-12 Equity and Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation and member of the Shanker Institute Board of Directors. This piece originally appeared on...
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In Memoriam: Clifford B. Janey
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Clifford Janey, a member of the Albert Shanker Institute’s Board of Directors for 13 years. He was 73 at the time of his death earlier this...
View ArticleInterpreting School Finance Measures
Last week we released the second edition of our annual report, "The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems," which presents key findings from the School Finance Indicators Database...
View ArticleCan Bias Prevent Women Running For Office From Having A Fair Shot?
Our guest authors today are Anthony Carnevale and Nicole Smith. Dr. Carnevale is Director and Research Professor and Nicole Smith is Chief Economist and Research Professor at the Georgetown University...
View ArticleMaking The Case For Multidisciplinary Sex Ed
Assuming you lived in a state that provided access to sex education, which of your courses would deliver this information? Most sex education is taught in biology or physical health classes with one or...
View ArticleWhere Al Shanker Stood: Disciplinary Learning
In this column, published in the New York Times on February 5, 1995, Al Shanker argues that, although interdisciplinary units can be done well, there is value in the deep knowledge that the disciplines...
View ArticleThe Past Is Prologue To The Future
Our guest author today is Stanley Litow, Professor at Duke and Columbia Universities, where he teaches about the role of corporations in society, and the author of The Challenge for Business and...
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Happy Holidays From The Shanker Institute
We at the Shanker Institute are taking a break for the holidays.We wish all of you a very happy holiday season.Blog posts will resume after the new year.
View ArticleThe Structure Of School Segregation In The D.C. Metro Area
A few weeks ago, the Shanker Institute published an analysis of segregation by race and ethnicity in D.C. metro area schools (including D.C. proper, Alexandria City, Arlington and Fairfax County in...
View ArticleTrouble In The Neighborhood
Our guest author today is Randy Garton, former Director of Research and Operations at the Albert Shanker Institute. He retired in 2015.I recently went with my oldest son, a young adult on the autism...
View ArticleConsent In The Digital Age: Lessons From Katie Hill
Earlier this year RedState and Daily Mail published nude photographs of Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-CA) without her consent after her husband leaked the photos to those platforms, also without her...
View ArticleRussia-gate Still Matters
Our guest author today is Eric Chenoweth, director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe.A majority of Americans support the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. With each...
View ArticleSocial Identity Development In The Age Of Accountability
According to a recent NPR article, the “majority of parents” do not talk to their children about social identity, which refers to group membership based on characteristics such as religion, gender,...
View ArticleA Problem Hiding In Plain Sight
Our guest author today is Natalie Wexler, an educational journalist who is a senior contributor to forbes.com and whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and...
View ArticleThe False Choice Of Growth Versus Proficiency
Tennessee is considering changing its school accountability system such that schools have the choice of having their test-based performance judged by either status (how highly students score) or growth...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Sex (Education Inequity)!
College is too late to expose students to facts about their own anatomy or to introduce tools for informed, consensual decision-making. I began my career at a liberal arts university in South Carolina...
View ArticleTests Worth Teaching To
Our guest authors today are Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan. Finn is a distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at Stanford...
View ArticleThe Challenge For Business: Improve Education
Our guest author today is Stanley Litow, Professor at Duke and Columbia Universities, where he teaches about the role of corporations in society, and the author of The Challenge for Business and...
View ArticleThe Progressive School Funding Option
One of the more striking findings in our recent report presenting data from the School Finance Indicators Database concerns funding progressivity, or fairness. A state’s finance system is considered...
View ArticleRemembering Eugenia Kemble
One year ago yesterday, former Shanker Institute executive director Eugenia Kemble passed away after a long fight with cancer. Here we reprint a piece that she wrote on the occasion of her retirement...
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