Category: School Reform
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The Fallacy of ‘Local Control’ in Public Education
The infrastructure constructed over the past three decades to promote a national vision of excellence and equity in public education is in danger of being swept away.
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National Problems Require National Solutions
The national problems in public education require national solutions.
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Teaching Wars: What Students Should Learn
Two school reform titans of an earlier era inform today’s debate over what students should learn and how they should be taught.
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School Reform-It’s Complicated
In his new book Class Warfare, journalist Steven Brill pulls back the curtain on the last decade of school reform, but not all the way
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Rhee Engineering Education
Has D.C.’s radical experiment in school reform really worked? A review of The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District, by Richard Whitmire
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Education Entrepreneurs on the Potomac
A new generation of social entrepreneurs is moving into public education–and the Obama administration is cheering.
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Raising Standards? Raising Dropout Rates?
President Obama wants to lower the dropout rate. He also wants to raise academic standards. But does one come at the expense of the other?
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The Testing Industry Under Common Core Standards
The new common core standards could be a boon to public school students. But will the standardized testing industry–and the states that employ it–create new tests to that support the standards?
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Sweating the Big Stuff: Scaling Up Charter Management Organizations
The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard for charter management organizations to hit.
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(Mandatory) School Choice in New York and Boston
By requiring many students to choice the public schools they attend, New York and Boston have redefined the school choice debate, to the benefit of students and their families