Category: School Reform
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How Democrats Can Win on Education Again
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. If they would compromise and combine forces, they could trounce Republicans, who have given up even trying to improve public education. (This article originally appeared in Washington Monthly.)
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A Cautionary Tale About School Closings
This piece originally appeared in The 74.
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Could Tutoring Be the Next Big Bipartisan School Reform?
This piece originally appeared in Washington Monthly on June 23, 2024.
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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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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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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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Have We Learned the Lessons of A Nation at Risk?
How far has school reform progressed in the three and a half decades after the controversial national manifesto?
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How D.C. Schools Are Revolutionizing Teaching
D.C.’s traditional public schools, once among the nation’s worst, have become magnets for some of America’s best educators.
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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.