Thoughts on Education Policy

Yesterday, the NY Times released the value-added scores of thousands of teachers over the past five years.  Before and immediately after th...

In the fall, I wrote about an instance in which outsiders may be needed in education reform .  Today I'll give you an example of how out...

Nick Kristof recently wrote another column calling for  more high-quality teachers  based on the latest paper on value-added measures of tea...

I've been meaning to finish writing this piece for six weeks, and now I finally have.  Enjoy. One of the most e-mailed articles in the...

I'm sure I missed a couple schools (I'm human, I didn't include public schools, and there may be some ultra-small schools I miss...