New York
It’s Happening: States and Districts Are Starting to #TestBetter
With state testing winding down and the school year coming to a close, now is the perfect time to re-examine the purpose and usefulness of tests in our schools. Every year, states measure student...
California
We Can't Even Write a Complete Sentence and Here's Why
One of my favorite articles makes me laugh and cringe. What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence describes the plight of top companies spending billions of dollars to send their well-educated...
Charter Schools
It’s Time to Give Charter Schools Equitable Funding
This year’s National Charter Schools Week is an especially poignant celebration as many states are reaching 20th and 25th anniversaries of their charter school laws (our state of Connecticut...
Parents
New York City Must Stop Hiding Its Weakest Teachers
A couple of months ago, the mayor of New York City snuck out a press release about his failure to rid the city of some its poorest performing teachers. What his administration has done instead is...
Washington D.C.
Research Says: Yes, #OptOutSoWhite
In Opt Out: An Examination of Issues, a peer-reviewed paper that is part of Educational Testing Service’s (ETS) Research Report Series, Randy E. Bennett analyzes "early press accounts" that ascribed...
New York
Peter Cunningham Reflects on the 2016 Network for Public Education Conference
I arrived in North Carolina for the 2016 conference of The Network for Public Education and the first person I met is the organization’s founder and the intellectual godmother of the anti-reform...