How long do you try a thing before you admit it’s not working and switch up your plan? 

Would it really be the worst thing if the U.S. wasn’t on top of the world order? 

Nearly two decades ago, policymakers on both sides of the aisle came together to establish clear academic expectations for students, assess student progress toward achieving those standards and use the resulting performance data to identify struggling schools and provide needed interventions. 

When school doors reopened after the prolonged shift to virtual classes sparked by the pandemic, it signaled the end of the once-robust conversation about public education’s woefully inadequate response to the crisis. Not even a set of NAEP scores showing students had regressed back to 1990...

A new collection of essays by leading education thinkers offers pathways to addressing the devastating impact the pandemic had and continues to have on our nation’s K-12 students.

Especially in the wake of pandemic school disruption, it’s time to develop a new, more holistic definition of student success, NewSchools Venture Fund CEO Frances Messano argues in her essay for Opportunity America’s new collection, “Unlocking the Future: Toward a New Reform Agenda for K-12...

COVID-19 wreaked havoc on our country’s education system, especially for students of color and those from low-income backgrounds. These inequities existed before COVID-19, but were exacerbated by the pandemic.