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Articles by Grover Whitehurst
Family support or school readiness? Contrasting models of public spending on children’s early care and learning
Executive summary In the United States, public policy and expenditure intended to improve the prospects of children from low-income families have focused on better preparing children for school through Head Start and universal pre-K. This school readiness approach differs from the dominant model of public support for early care and learning in Northern Europe, which places more emphasis on supporting families.
Choosing Blindly: Instructional Materials, Teacher Effectiveness, and the Common Core
Evidence shows that instructional materials have large effects on student learning. However, little research exists on the effectiveness of most instructional materials, and very little systematic information has been collected on which materials are being used in which schools.
A Prevalence of "Policy-Based Evidence-Making" - Forum: Should Schools Embrace Social and Emotional Learning? - Education Next
Does the current drive to incorporate social and emotional learning, or SEL, into the K–12 curriculum represent a positive reform that will lead schools to educate the “whole student” and ultimately boost young people’s academic success? Or is it a distracting fad that comes with high opportunity costs?
Should Schools Embrace Social and Emotional Learning? Debating the merits and costs - Education Next
Debating the merits and costs By Robert Balfanz and Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst Print | NO PDF | Share SUMMER 2019 / VOL. 19, NO. 3 Calls for schools to pay heed to children’s social and emotional learning have proliferated in recent years. Is the current enthusiasm for educating the “whole learner” a much-needed correction to the narrow concentration on academic skills in the modern reform era?
A good-enough early childhood
Executive Summary The standard model of the role of early experience in human development assumes that children’s environments in their first years of life are dominant influences on who they become as adults. The standard model favors interventions to improve children’s long-term outcomes that start early in life and are intensive in time and attention from nurturing adults.
When less-affluent families pay ‘far too much’ for child care costs
I am friends with a married couple in their early 30s, each a well-paid professional. The due date for their second child was Sept. 1, exactly the cutoff date for school entry where they live. The birth was going to be by C-section so they could schedule the delivery within a window of a couple of days on either side of the due date. If they chose Sept. 2 or later, their child would be the oldest in his class when starting public school (a very good thing from their perspective).
New Evidence on School Choice and School Segregation | RealClearEducation
New Evidence on School Choice and School Segregation The charter school sector is presently on the hot seat because many charter schools are highly segregated by race, and often more segregated than required by the demographics of their catchment areas. Such racial imbalance can happen when the student body of any particular school is based on a lottery among applicants to that school. This allows for self-sorting on racial, ethnic, and other dimensions.Read Full Article »
New evidence on school choice and racially segregated schools
Executive summary The charter school sector is presently on the hot seat because many charter schools are highly segregated by race, and often more segregated than required by the demographics of their catchment areas. Such racial imbalance can happen when the student body of any particular school is based on a lottery among applicants to that school. This allows for self-sorting on racial, ethnic, and other dimensions.
Racial imbalances in U.S. public schools
How closely does the racial makeup of U.S. public schools resemble that of their surrounding neighborhoods? New research from the Center on Children and Families examines the racial makeup of public schools—both traditional and charters—across the country to identify schools whose racial imbalance with respect to their surrounding neighborhoods makes them ‘outliers’ within their states.
Preschool Education: What the Research Says (Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst)
With American education seemingly stuck in neutral no matter what elementary and secondary reforms we try, policymakers are looking to younger children to improve achievement. Indeed, touting the benefits of “high-quality” programs, President Obama has proposed spending $75 billion to expand preschool to all four-year olds. But on what research basis does the argument for greatly expanding early childhood education rest? What do we know about the effectiveness of preschool?
New Evidence Raises Doubts on Obama’s Preschool for All
Last week legislation was introduced in the Senate and House to create federally funded universal pre-k for 4-year-olds. The details of the legislation are largely consistent with the White House proposal, called Preschool for All, that was announced in the president’s state of the union address in February.
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