Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on February 5, 2025“Pleased, But Not Satisfied:” Louisiana Students Climb in National Education RankingsIt’s carnival season in Louisiana, and it seems that everywhere you turn, there’s a celebration. Last [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on July 31, 20242024 LEAP Scores Announced, Disappointing Reactions from School LeadersLast week, the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) released the results of the 2024 state LEAP test, [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on July 26, 2023Have Louisiana’s Students Improved? We’ll Find Out Soon.Students in Louisiana suffered damaging learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, and billions of [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on July 17, 2023Mirror, Mirror, on the WallIt’s election season again. And like clockwork, some politicians have pulled out their old talking points [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on April 4, 2023VALUING LEARNING OVER TIME LEARNING: IS LOUISIANA READY?For years, American schools have based student promotion from one grade level to the next and ultimately [...]Read more
Posted by Erin Bendily, Ph.D. on September 8, 2022How are federal COVID recovery dollars being used to reverse student learning loss?A few weeks ago, we wrote about Louisiana public school students’ performance on the 2022 Louisiana [...]Read more
Posted by Kevin Mooney on March 13, 2012Union Leaders Coerce Teachers Out of the Classroom to Protest Jindal ReformsPolitically active union leaders should refrain from separating teachers from their classroom [...]Read more