Articles tagged: "The Thomas Fordham Institute"

On November 8, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute held an event which dealt with the issue of grade inflation in…

So math teachers need not worry about how to attack Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the middle of a class.

Some analysts have noticed, even if it doesn’t eat up a lot of time in the 24-7 news cycle.

By definition, soft skills should be in more plentiful supply than hard ones but are endangered by trends in both parenting and education and the overlap between the two, a scholar from the Manhattan Institute suggests.

Race-based discipline reform hurts children and cuts against one of the core purposes of schooling, Heather Mac Donald, author of The Diversity Delusion, argued in a lecture presented by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the Hoover Institution on Thursday, September 27.

When the appointed conservative debates the resident liberal at a conference, don’t expect sparks to fly, particularly when the former echoes the latter’s talking points.

A team of researchers led by Miami University (of Ohio) Assistant Professor Andrew Saultz has compiled a map of “charter school deserts,” or poor areas where charters are hard to find but quite desired.

That’s what a pair of researchers from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) claim.

A study from the University of Arkansas may have stumbled upon one reason for declining test scores–apathy.

And more reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz than the three Rs or even John Dewey.

When you look at the data, you find that, as usual, the current wisdom is not necessarily the case.