Thoughts on Education Policy

As teachers around the country start to head back to work, I'm starting to hear the same thing I hear every year from teachers I know: ...

A new report being released today apparently finds that 60% of students in Texas were suspended or expelled at least once between 7th and 12...

Here's an interesting story  to follow from the suburbs of Pittsburgh.  It seems that the majority of the residents of the tiny borough ...

This NYT article seems incomplete, but I like it for one simple reason: people talk all the time about charters cherry picking or cream ski...

. . . then why are so many so petrified of losing their jobs? In conversation after conversation with teachers from a wide variety of school...

Yesterday's Economic Scene Column by David Leonhardt captures my biggest objection to the "not everybody should go to college...

The rhetoric about "bad teachers" may never go away -- in part some teachers will always perform poorly, act irresponsibly, and so...

The Quick and the Ed had a good piece today on the emerging research on the college "promise" policies enacted by various distric...

One thing that continues to intrigue me is the flip in the attitudes of some conservatives toward the power of schools. When the Coleman Rep...

This NY Times piece on chronic absenteeism in schools was interesting, particularly this paragraph: The problem has hardly disappeared. L...