Charter Schools
Is This Education Reform’s 'E Pluribus Unum' Moment?
Everyone trying to influence policy dreams of leading “an organized whole that acts as a single, unified, powerful or influential force.” Merriam-Webster’s dictionary will tell you that is the...
Poverty
If 12,000 Families Didn't Want School Choice, We Wouldn't Be Here
Every morning, I come to work thinking about our students. Not politics, or rhetoric, or the news. Just our students—all 12,000 of them. They come from every one of Chicago’s neighborhoods, as far...
Teaching
I Can't Be Yet Another White Teacher Who Doesn't Get Black History Month
It shamed me to see the way so many White people honored Dr. King on MLK Day last month. For many, including myself at one point, Dr. King represents an idealized vision of a societal problem being...
student achievement
The US Is Falling Way Behind in STEM But Kentucky's Powering the Comeback
Maybe you’re already aware, but the United States isn’t exactly globally competitive in science education. As of 2015, we ranked 24th out of 71 countries included in a major international study. If...
Poverty
New Mexico’s Kids Deserve Great Public Schools So We're Launching NewMexicoKidsCAN
So many things make New Mexico enchanting. There are sunsets over the Sandia Mountains, adobe buildings with hundred-year histories, lush green bosque surrounding our life-giving Rio Grande and...
Poverty
Helping Students With College Essays Shouldn’t Cost Parents an Arm and a Leg
Anyone who has worked in a school can tell you that students can be tonic for the soul. Without realizing they are doing it, they pull us out of ourselves—our lousy morning, a bad mood and even a...
