Knowing how well a school is doing is some of the most important information we as parents can have. It offers a starting point for raising questions to principals and local school boards. It gives...
If Governor John Bel Edwards has his way today, setting higher goals for Louisiana students could be delayed by a year or two and possibly even die on the vine. Today, the state’s Board of Elementary...
This morning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered a keynote address at the Brookings Institution for the Center on Children and Families’ release of its fifth annual Education Choice and...
This post is part of a series on the issue of vouchers and private school choice. With the Trump administration’s vows to expand school choice, many states are moving aggressively to create more...
I am the fly in the school reform buttermilk. An outsider, now marginally on the inside, trying to plot the revolution. Young, gifted and Black, I founded a charter school support organization in...
In 1952, as the world continued to take stock of the devastation wrought by authoritarian regimes, a coalition of prominent universities and preparatory schools called for a renewed general education...
