Achievement Gap
The Gap That Divides Them All: Belief, Opportunity, and Achievement In Schools
We often discuss the achievement gap in education, and for good reason. It’s the data we see: test scores, graduation rates, and college enrollment. It’s how we measure whether the system is working....
School Funding
Managing Through the Noise: How Superintendents See Shifts in the Federal Role in Education
In May 2025, we spoke with about a dozen superintendents across the country—and others who work closely with them—about challenges stemming from recent national events, including a much smaller...
bias
Have You Heard of 'Racial Crossfit'? Try This Summer Workout
White people, with all the racial turmoil in our world, do you want “do something” about racism? Well, today is your lucky day! Debuting for this school year is a new anti-racist curriculum titled...
Politics
The Revolution Will Be Literate: Why We Must Reclaim Truth, Science, and Our Children’s Minds
I’ve spent two decades obsessing about creating better schools. I’ve fought for books, for assessments, for standards, for options—for kids. And lately, I feel like I’m screaming into the void....
School Choice
We Are the System Now—And We Don't Need Permission
For a very long time, I’ve beaten you over the head with a deceptively simple question that ought to animate every education policy debate in America: How are the children? Not how are the politics....
equity
How the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ Betrays Black America
My grandmother’s doctor visits are not political. The cost of my monthly prescriptions doesn’t care if the Senate swings red or blue. And yet, both are now caught in the crosshairs of one of the most...
