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• Select "Our Biggest Nightmare Is Here": Cyberattacks are targeting school districts. How can schools respond to keep data and systems secure?

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  "Our Biggest Nightmare Is Here": Cyberattacks are targeting school districts. How can schools respond to keep data and systems secure?

  Author:Eileen BelastockFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20222,801 words Article 1470LON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 2, 2019, Assistant Superintendent for Compliance and Information Systems Bhargav Vyas received a system-failure warning for Monroe-Woodbury Central School District in Central Valley, New York....
• Select Major Differences: Why some degrees cost colleges more than others.

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  Major Differences: Why some degrees cost colleges more than others.

  Authors:Steven W. Hemelt, Kevin M. Stange, Fernando Furquim, Andrew Simon, and John E. SawyerFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20223,670 words Article 1410LHOW EXPENSIVE IS A COLLEGE DEGREE? Usually, the answer is based on what students pay in tuition and fees compared to what they earn after graduation. As a result, policymakers often promote enrollment and applaud growth...
• Select The Case for Kindergarten Tests: Starting NAEP in 4th grade is much too late.

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  The Case for Kindergarten Tests: Starting NAEP in 4th grade is much too late.

  Author:Michael J. PetrilliFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20221,521 words Article 1380LWAY BACK IN THE LATE 1960S, when federal officials and eminent psychologists were first designing the National Assessment of Educational Progress, they probably never contemplated testing students younger than nine....
• Select Choice, Flexibility, Accountability Drive School Improvement: One kind of public school is improving faster than another kind. What explains charter success?

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  Choice, Flexibility, Accountability Drive School Improvement: One kind of public school is improving faster than another kind. What explains charter success?

  Author:Greg RichmondFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20223,844 words Article 1380LFOR YEARS, media attention to charter schools has focused on the horse race: which schools are better, charter schools or district schools? What if one were to tweak this question and ask instead: which type of school...
• Select In Omicron's Wake.

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  In Omicron's Wake.

  Author:Martin R. WestFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2022741 words Editorial 1490LAS THIS ISSUE OF EDUCATION NEXT goes to press, the nationwide spike in Covid-19 cases caused mainly by the Omicron variant has begun to abate. In Massachusetts and other Northeast states, where Omicron first took hold in...
• Select Homeschooling Skyrocketed During the Pandemic, but What Does the Future Hold? It may be less of an either-or option, as homeschooling is combined with online experiences, neighborhood pods, cooperatives, or joint undertakings with public and private schools.

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  Homeschooling Skyrocketed During the Pandemic, but What Does the Future Hold? It may be less of an either-or option, as homeschooling is combined with online experiences, neighborhood pods, cooperatives, or joint undertakings with public and private schools.

  Authors:Daniel Hamlin and Paul E. PetersonFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20223,460 words Article 1340LAS FOLK WISDOM HAS IT, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And research shows that children are generally shaped more by life at home than by studies at school. College enrollment, for instance, is better predicted...
• Select Beyond Moneyball: Data-Driven Education Boosted by Observation and Judgment: In Nigeria, smiling at small victories and pushing to do better.

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  Beyond Moneyball: Data-Driven Education Boosted by Observation and Judgment: In Nigeria, smiling at small victories and pushing to do better.

  Author:Mike GoldsteinFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20224,357 words Article 1110LWHEN I WORKED for Bridge International Academies, the largest network of elementary schools in the developing world, gee, did we have a lot of data. We had testing data from five different countries, each with its own...
• Select MAPPING THE GLOBAL LEARNING CRISIS: Despite record enrollments in school worldwide, learning is limited.

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  MAPPING THE GLOBAL LEARNING CRISIS: Despite record enrollments in school worldwide, learning is limited.

  Authors:Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi Goldberg, and Harry PatrinosFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20222,084 words Article 1400LTHERE ARE MORE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL worldwide today than at any other time in history, pandemic-related disruptions notwithstanding. In 2010, the average adult had completed 7.6 years of school, more than double the 3.2...
• Select Dismantling Denver: The city was a national model for education reform. Then union-backed candidates took over the school board.

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  Dismantling Denver: The city was a national model for education reform. Then union-backed candidates took over the school board.

  Authors:Parker Baxter and Alan GottliebFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20224,626 words Article 1460LDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS' three-year plunge from one of the nation's most carefully planned and promising examples of public-education transformation into a district led by a school board in disarray has multiple causes,...
• Select Expand Access to Free School Food? Debating plans to increase federal support for child nutrition.

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  Expand Access to Free School Food? Debating plans to increase federal support for child nutrition.

  From:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20223,402 words Article 1520LThe Community Eligibility Provision of the National School Lunch Program allows high-poverty schools to offer subsidized school lunches free of charge to all students, regardless of an individual family's financial need....
• Select "This Is the Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time": Philanthropist of the Year Bill Oherndorf explains a state-based strategy for advancing school choice.

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  "This Is the Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time": Philanthropist of the Year Bill Oherndorf explains a state-based strategy for advancing school choice.

  Author:Paul PetersonFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20221,167 words Interview 1160LBILL OBERNDORF has committed his resources to expanding opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. He chairs the American Federation for Children, which funds scholarships for low-income students to...
• Select Blaine Fights Back.

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  Blaine Fights Back.

  Author:Joshua DunnFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2022853 words Article 1540LIN JUNE 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court seemingly dealt a deathblow to Blaine Amendments--provisions adopted by 37 states to prevent government funding of parochial schools. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the...
• Select Drowning in Debt: Profiles of mega-borrowers spotlight broken student-loan policy.

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  Drowning in Debt: Profiles of mega-borrowers spotlight broken student-loan policy.

  Author:Matthew M. ChingosFrom:Education Next (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20221,183 words Book review 1520LThe Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe by Josh Mitchell Simon & Schuster, 2021, $27; 272 pages. As reviewed by Matthew M. Chingos STORIES OF SIX-FIGURE STUDENT DEBTS tend to grab more...