Centrist and progressive Democrats can’t stop fighting over how to fix America’s crisis-ridden K-12 schools. Truth is, each side has part of the answer.
Thomas Toch
Thomas Toch is director of FutureEd, an education think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Posted inEducation
Education Reforms that Can Strengthen the Nation’s Schools
Here are six and they could enjoy bipartisan support, to boot.
Posted inMagazine
Public Education’s Reinforcements
New tutoring programs funded by the Biden administration and governors of both parties are shrinking the achievement gap in America’s schools. They could be the foundation of a bipartisan movement to help struggling students.
Posted inEducation
Trump’s Expansion of 529 Savings Plans Is One Pricey Idea
Why extending benefits to primary and secondary schools only exacerbates inequality.
Posted inEducation, Featured, Political Animal
Will the Pandemic Cost Teachers Their Pensions?
If states don’t act now, educators’ retirement benefits could become the next victim of coronavirus.
Posted inJune/July/August 2017, Magazine
Hot for Teachers
D.C.’s traditional public schools, once among the nation’s worst, have become magnets for some of America’s best educators. The results are showing up in the classroom.
Posted inEducation, K-12, Magazine, March/April/May 2016, Politics
How Obama Got Schooled
Under pressure from right and left, the president signed away hard-won federal power over K-12 education and gutted his own reforms, even as they were working.
Posted inBooks, Education, K-12, Magazine, September/October 2012
First-Rate Temperaments
Liberals don’t want to admit it, and conservatives don’t want to pay for it, but building character—resilience, optimism, perseverance, focus—may be the best way to help poor students succeed.
Posted inBooks, Education, July/August 2011, K-12, Magazine
Rhee Engineering Education
Has D.C.’s radical experiment in school reform really worked?
Posted inMagazine
Measure For Measure
If any school should be a poster child for President Bush’s signature education reform, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), it’s Herbert Marcus Elementary School. The inner-city Dallas, Texas, school is exactly the kind that the law was designed to improve. It’s a shabby, overcrowded place on the edge of a grim indus trial zone, […]
