Latest Articles
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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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The Weaknesses in D.C.’s School Voucher Program
Why are many students in the nation’s capital not using the private school tuition vouchers that they receive?
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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.
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A New Era in the Battle Over Teacher Evaluations
The Obama administration encouraged more robust ways of assessing which educators were doing a good job. Will its legacy last?
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Who Says Teacher Eval Reforms Aren’t Working?
D.C.’s evaluation system should make critics think twice before dismissing the importance of reforms to teacher evaluation.
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Charter School Lessons from New Orleans
In New Orleans, school reform leaders have rejected the argument that charters should be permitted to set their own, narrower standards of what it means to be public schools.
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Rethinking the Carnegie Unit
By stressing the amount of time students spend in the classroom rather than their mastery of subjects, the Carnegie Unit masks the quality of teaching and learning in the nation’s schools and colleges. But alternatives aren’t simple.
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On Student Motivation
In an era of rising academic standards, more kids than ever will struggle. But research suggests new ways to help them thrive in the face of adversity.