U.S. Department of Education
Here's the One Thing We Just Can’t Agree on When It Comes to Schools
Ask any parent and they’ll tell you they want their child to go to a good school. But ask them what makes a good school, and how do we decide what’s good, and that’s where all sorts of different...
U.S. Department of Education
School Districts Just Like Mine Are Balancing Budgets on the Backs of Kids
At 10:00 a.m. last Wednesday, students and educators across the country—including those at the school in which I teach—walked out of their buildings and observed 17 minutes of silence, one for each...
Charter Schools
Don't Stop the Office for Civil Rights From Providing Strong and Fair Oversight on School Discipline
We know that students of color and those with disabilities are disproportionately suspended and expelled from public schools, whether in district or charter. The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC),...
Special Education
How States Are Approaching School Accountability
For the most part, what states measure for school quality has already been decided by federal law under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Every state, for example, has to track student test scores to...
School Choice
A Letter to Betsy DeVos About My Student Loans
Dear Secretary DeVos, You and I have a lot in common. We're both from the great state of Michigan and have the same Michigan accent. We both have careers in education reform. In fact, we've both...
Diversity
Race, Reform and the Firestorm: Reflections on Our Progress a Year Later
One year ago, I excused myself from dinner with friends and returned to my hotel room to blog about my awe-inspiring experience at the NewSchools Summit in San Francisco. After two hours of intense...