There’s a tutoring epidemic. It goes beyond four-year-olds prepping to ace gifted and talented screenings, and teens cramming for the Specialized High School Admissions Test. Those exams are for...
Politics is at the heart of so much that is wrong with public education. On the left, education politics is often about increasing funding while evading responsibility for results. On the right, it’s...
“I could never make it there,” they said. “I am just not smart enough,” they explained. Those were some of the comments I heard from students in my high school teacher's Spanish class. I was back in...
Some states may be setting themselves up to fail. That’s my takeaway after reading through a summary of state education plans for dealing with schools that have a large number of students opting out...
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...
