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....
Teaching
Start Building the Schools Our Children Deserve
Black and brown children need great schools. They needed them throughout history, and they need them today. Access to great schools, across time and geography, has been punishingly rare. So it’s...
student achievement
Eliminating the Department of Education Won’t Fix Education’s Dysfunctions, But Neither Will Denying They Exist
Proposals to eliminate the Department of Education (ED) have been a Republican talking point since Ronald Reagan first suggested it in the early 1980s. The Trump administration’s executive order to...
School Choice
2025 Is a Year for Hard Truths and Bold Solutions in Education
Happy 2025! Longtime readers will know that CRPE prides itself on “thinking forward.” We make straight-out predictions from time to time, but we mostly look around the corner at looming trends,...
Charter Schools
So, How Did I Do? A Response to My 2024 Predictions on Education
Last February, I went out on a limb and made ten predictions about what we’d see this year regarding policy and practice. At the time, I said: “Unlike cable news pundits, who rarely hold themselves...
STEM
This Pi Day, Let's Celebrate Girls Killing It at STEM
Schools, businesses, nonprofits, governments and militaries around the world are slowly waking up to the need to close the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields,...
