Thoughts on Education Policy

The latest NAEP results are out, and they're not particularly impressive.  4th grade scores were unchanged, but 8th grade scores inched...

NCES today released a report on the number of public elementary and secondary schools that fit into all sorts of categories.  Here are the ...

-Credit Robert Pondiscio with some excellent investigative journalism . At first, we thought that Thomas Sowell was a little harsh when he r...

(answered from a slightly different angle than last week ) by Judi Zachary After teaching in disadvantaged inner-city Detroit schools, I...

-Did you know that half of pro football players and 21% of pro basketball players have college degrees ?  I assume that baseball and hockey ...

-Principals in Philadelphia will now be judged, in part, on how many students eat breakfast at their school .  While I applaud the effort to...

As anybody who reads about education policy these days knows, only two things matter: charter schools and teacher quality. For example: Q...

Three Observations: 1.) I've never seen such softball questions from Colbert.  Alexander Russo reported today that the staff didn...

In the wake of the Hoxby et al report on the effectiveness of NYC charter schools, quite a few people seem to be jumping on the charter exp...

Most people agree that the achievement gap is a major -- many would argue the largest -- problem in American education today.  And the quest...