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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 Hidden Provision Driving Tax Breaks for Private School Tuition
This piece was published in Washington Monthly on May 20, 2021.
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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.
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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?