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Evidence Matters | Two Paths, a Shared Future: What the U.S. and Estonia Can Learn From Each Other – Part I
by Kelly Gregory, Catherine Schumacher, and Susie Shannon When you fly into the Estonian capital of Tallinn, first you see the woods. These vast swaths of green quickly give way to huge gray blocks of...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters: Rediscovering Childhood Through Estonia’s Whole-Child Approach to Education
by Wendy Thacker When Did Being a Kid Stop Being Just Being a Kid? Remember the days of Kool-Aid mustaches, PB&J sandwiches from someone else's mom, and playing outside until the streetlights turned on? When...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters: Exploring the Baltic Tiger
September 5, 2025 Since gaining its independence from Russia in 1991, Estonia has risen to the top of educational rankings, both in Europe and around the world. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters: Is the Summer Slide a Slippery Slope?
July 10, 2025 When the school bell rings for the final time signaling the beginning of summer, kids across the country race into the sunshine ready for a break. But some parents and teachers worry...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | An Examination of Standardized Testing in the United States – Are We Passing the Test? Part III
May 22, 2025 As we highlighted in our last post, while the U.S. administers a variety of standardized tests to students each year, historically, we have underperformed other countries on common measures of student academic...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | An Examination of Standardized Testing in the United States – Are We Passing the Test? Part II
April 28, 2025 As we highlighted in our last post, the U.S.’s PISA scores demonstrate a significant gap between its students from impoverished backgrounds compared to higher socioeconomic students, and this gap is larger in...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | An Examination of Standardized Testing in the United States – Are We Passing the Test? Part I
March 27, 2025 For many, springtime may signal the beginning of warmer weather and longer days. If you live and work in the world of education, however, springtime usually signals a very different thing: the...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Arts Integration: It’s Smart Business
December 18, 2024 In our last post, we highlighted the promising research behind the practice of arts integration. At a time when leaders are continually looking for new and innovative ways to improve educational outcomes...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Teaching and Learning: It’s an Art
October 31, 2024 As we discussed in our last post, the path to better, more meaningful learning doesn’t always require more time or more money, but rather can simply involve an approach that is different....
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Civic Education: Creating Both Readers and Leaders
October 9, 2024 In our last post, we highlighted not only the need for more in-depth civic education opportunities for our students, but also how in doing so, we might develop students who not only...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Civic Education: Two Birds, One Stone
September 24, 2024 If you asked any classroom teacher or other education leader in your district what their primary focus has been the last few years, chances are the most common refrain you’d hear would...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Teacher Professional Development: The Future
July 31, 2024 In our previous two posts, we have examined the impact of professional development on both teacher satisfaction and teacher effectiveness, and we have looked at what research tells us are the essential...
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