In the popular imagination, testing season in American public schools is a time of anxiety, tension, and boredom for students and teachers alike; a time when learning stops and “drill and kill” test prep begins. But if you had walked into my classroom this time last year, you’d have witnessed something a bit different: A […]
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The Half-Finished Revolution on Teacher Quality
How the Obama Administration’s efforts to boost teacher quality benefited both students and teachers.
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 inEducation, K-12
Head Start Is Missing the Population It’s Designed to Serve
A new report shows which states are the best – and which are the worst – at providing access to early childhood education.
Posted inEducation, K-12
How to Save a High School Dropout
New research shows the key role of relationships in preventing dropout.
Posted inEducation, K-12
Afterschool and the Opportunity Gap
Better access to extracurricular activities can build social capital in high-poverty communities.
Posted inEducation, K-12
How to Fix High Poverty High Schools
Affluent high schools have three things lower-income schools lack, says a new study.
Posted inEducation, June/July/August 2015, K-12, Magazine
How New Orleans Made Charter Schools Work
Since Katrina, the Crescent City’s schools have produced what some experts believe to be the most rapid academic improvement in American history—and created a reform model other cities are trying.
Posted inEconomy, Education, K-12, Magazine, November/December 2014
The New Segregation
It’s class, not race. And we know how to solve it.
Posted inEducation, K-12, Magazine, November/December 2014
Unequal at the Start
Early childhood programs pay dividends for life.
