School Funding
Progressives Talk Equity, But Where’s the Plan for Real School Change?
Whatever else the 2024 election results indicated, they did not end the United States’ core political predicament. It’s not asymmetrical polarization or gridlock (etc.), though those are certainly...
U.S. Department of Education
Trump’s War on Education: Why Cuts Labeled As Efficiency Could Destroy Opportunity
I remain attentive to thoughtful perspectives on policy changes impacting our education system. One of the sharpest thinkers I've encountered in this field is Kim Smith, CEO of LearnerStudio. Her...
student achievement
Is Trump Gutting Education Research a New Beginning or Just ‘Slashing and Burning’?
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Institute of Education Sciences on Monday temporarily disables an essential source of data on a host of basic information — everything from high school...
Charter Schools
So, How Did I Do? A Response to My 2024 Predictions on Education
Last February, I went out on a limb and made ten predictions about what we’d see this year regarding policy and practice. At the time, I said: “Unlike cable news pundits, who rarely hold themselves...
Politics
The “Facts of Life” for Gen Z: A Party That Has Abandoned Us
Republican Senator and vice presidential candidate JD Vance recently addressed the tragic school shooting in Georgia, stating, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.” The “fact of life” he was...
Diversity
DEI Is The New N-Word
The terms/acronyms “woke,” “DEI,” and “CRT” are used in a derogatory way, interchangeably, as a coded language to signify or designate a Black person as either Black or the N-word. Political...
