This morning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered a keynote address at the Brookings Institution for the Center on Children and Families’ release of its fifth annual Education Choice and...
I wasn’t supposed to be where I am today. People repeatedly told me, “You ain’t nothin’. You ain’t neva gon be nothin’.” I saw my first murder at age 11, and, by the time I turned 15, I was on my...
This is a stressful time for many urban eighth-grade students and parents who are considering high school options, and hearing from public schools about acceptances into selective or other...
As a parent, if you believed your child to be enrolled in a failing school, would you withdraw them? And if you did, how likely would it be that you would be lucky enough to get your child enrolled...
Oakland blogger Dirk Tillotson wrote this provocative piece suggesting that unions and charters could actually be good for each other. Currently, about 12 percent of America’s 6,700 charter schools...
