Latest Articles
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Smart Strategies for Tackling Teacher Shortages
This piece orginally appeared in The New York Times on October 6, 2022.
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Beyond Bake Sales: The New Parent Activism in Education
While conservative parents’ battles against Covid mandates and diversity efforts have captured headlines, other activist parent organizations have emerged to fight for improved educational opportunities and outcomes for low-income students. A feature piece in Education Next.
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Leaning In: Parents in Public Education
A new generation of far more activist parent organizations is springing up across the country, propelled by the internet, the rise of video conferencing, social media, and millions of dollars in backing from foundations seeking to bring the voices of underrepresented families and communities into the work of school improvement.
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A Crusade to End Grading in High Schools
An educator is leading a national movement to change the way schools measure student progress. Why? And can it catch on? A profile in The Washington Post Magazine.
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How Troubled Pension Systems are Hurting the Teaching Profession
Flawed teacher pension systems are hurting teachers and undermining their profession.
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The Pandemic Spawns New School Staffing Models
The pandemic was mostly an instructional disaster. But some innovative new ways to staff public schools emerged from the morass.
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Disrupted: Public-education Reform in the Nation’s Capital
The District of Columbia Public Schools have undergone one of the most ambitious, most controversial, and most successful, school reform campaigns in the nation.
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Don’t Abandon Standardized Testing. Use the Right Tests for the Right Roles.
There’s a major role of student testing in the wake of the pandemic. It’s just not the type of testing that many are focused on.
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How To Address Teacher Attrition
FutureEd Director Thomas Toch testified before the District of Columbia City Council on Dec. 4 about principal and teacher retention in the public schools in the nation’s capital.
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Common Lotteries and the Future of Urban Public Education
The District of Columbia’s school lottery system helps level the educational playing field in the nation’s capital by providing families with a common application for DC traditional and charter public schools. Originally published in The Washington Post Magazine, March 20, 2019.