Lane Wright

Lane Wright is Director of Communications and Advocacy for the National Council on Teacher Quality, and formerly served as Director of Strategic Growth for Education Post and brightbeam. Lane has more than 18 years of experience in strategic communications and education advocacy. He tells stories that help families understand how their schools are doing, how to make them better, and how policy plays a role.

Posts By Lane Wright

Achievement Gap

Everyone Is Entitled to an Opinion on Charter Schools But Parents Deserve the Final Say

Over the last year we've seen the NAACP come out forcefully against charter schools. We've seen the Trump administration support choice in ways that have made people question their own positions on...

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Achievement Gap

Kentucky's Schools Are Getting Better, But Black and Poor Students Are Still Falling Behind

In recent years, Kentucky’s public schools have found themselves in a classic good-news, bad-news situation. The good news: Over the last 10 years or so, schools have improved significantly. Test...

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Special Education

How States Are Approaching School Accountability

For the most part, what states measure for school quality has already been decided by federal law under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Every state, for example, has to track student test scores to...

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Student Voice

You May Have Seen 'Hamilton,' But Not Like This

It was a cool Chicago evening in late April. I walked down the bleacher steps of the spacious new Back of the Yards College Preparatory High School auditorium (which doubles as one of the city’s...

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student achievement

A Parent’s Guide to the Changes Coming to Florida Schools

Let’s just start with the bottom line: Florida lawmakers passed a big education bill Monday that is mostly good for kids: It protects recess for elementary students, reduces state tests for high...

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Student Voice

Kentucky’s School Accountability Plan Lacks Parent Voice

At first glance, it would appear Kentucky’s plan for tracking school performance, and stepping in when needed, is pretty...‘agreeable.’ In a survey from each of the first eight cities the Kentucky...

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