Stories

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...

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....

School Funding

Progressives Talk Equity, But Where’s the Plan for Real School Change?

Whatever else the 2024 election results indicated, they did not end the United States’ core political predicament. It’s not asymmetrical polarization or gridlock (etc.), though those are certainly...

CRT

Here's What the Milford 11 Have to Teach Us About the Roots of Critical Race Theory

Back in 2018, I ran across a story from the 1950s that seemed to illuminate some of the ugly political fights we were living through. True to the zeitgeist, I made a podcast episode about it. And...

student achievement

3 Ways Racism Is Damaging To the Health and Wellness of Black Students

Many educators and researchers approach the relationship between education and health as a linear one, where greater academic attainment leads to better student health (mental, physical and emotional...

School Funding

With Omicron, Students Fell Behind in Math Even Though Schools Were Open

Imagine that you go in for your annual medical bloodwork and something alarming turns up: say, your platelets are through the roof, a possible indicator of cancer. Does your doctor say, “Let’s wait...

AI In The Classroom: What A Year Has Taught Us

Managing Through the Noise: How Superintendents See Shifts in the Federal Role in Education

We Are the System Now—And We Don't Need Permission

Progressives Talk Equity, But Where’s the Plan for Real School Change?

Here's What the Milford 11 Have to Teach Us About the Roots of Critical Race Theory

3 Ways Racism Is Damaging To the Health and Wellness of Black Students

With Omicron, Students Fell Behind in Math Even Though Schools Were Open