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Pulling the Parent Trigger

Education Next talks with Ben Austin and Michael J. Petrilli

There’s a Better Way to Unlock Parent Power

Forum: Pulling the Parent Trigger

Tweet Thine Enemy

How “narrowcast” is the education policy debate?

The Newsroom’s View of Education Reform

Surprise! The press paints a distorted picture

Obama’s Education Record

Does the reality match the rhetoric?

All A-Twitter about Education

Improving our schools in 140 characters or less

Pyrrhic Victories?

The following essay is part of a forum, written in honor of Education Next’s 10th anniversary, in which the editors assessed the school reform movement’s victories and challenges to see just how successful reform efforts have been. For the other side of the debate, please see A Battle Begun, Not Won by Paul E. Peterson, [...]

Lights, Camera, Action!

Using video recordings to evaluate teachers

All Together Now?

Educating high and low achievers in the same classroom

School Reform Hits the Big Screen

Why 2010 is a banner year for the education documentary

Bye-Bye Blackboards

Interactive and expensive, whiteboards come to the classroom

Charters as Role Models

The charter school movement turns 14

this year, and its behavior, some might say, is “developmentally

appropriate.”

Disappearing Ink

What happens when the education reporter goes away?

Linky Love, Snark Attacks, and Fierce Debates about Teacher Quality?

A peek inside the education blogosphere

Arrested Development

Online training is the norm in other professions. Why not in K–12 education?

Opinion Leaders or Laggards?

Newspaper editorialists support charter schools, split on NCLB

Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?

Assessing the online encyclopedia’s impact on K–12 education

Let’s Talk About It

Talk radio’s take on K–12 education

Teacher’s Little Helper

New technologies target teacher performance

Testing the Limits of NCLB

Implementation is not the problem

The Key to Research Influence

Quality data and sound analysis matter, after all

No Business Like Show Business

Hollywood and Hip-Hop Discover Charter Schools

Misdirected Energy

Schools get an A in resisting reform.

The Cure

Will NCLB’s restructuring wonder drug prove meaningless?

A New New Federalism

The case for national standards and tests

Am I a Part of the Cure … or the Disease?

Will testing and accountability make matters worse? No, they will make matters marginally better.

To Close the ‘Opportunity Gap,’ We Need to Close the Vocabulary Gap

Rich parents are obsessed with their children’s social and intellectual development. They are spending dramatically more time parenting. How can we help poor kids catch up?

The Open-Source School District

Imagine the creation of a virtual school district. It wouldn’t have any actual students, teachers, buses, or facilities, but it would have a school board, a superintendent, and a central-office staff.

Pell Grants Shouldn’t Pay for Remedial College

A huge proportion of this $40 billion annual federal investment is flowing to people who simply aren’t prepared to do college-level work.

Why Don’t Schools Embrace Good Ideas?

Could it be that they’ve never encountered the ideas?

Proud to Be a Private Public School Parent

Public schools can be just as exclusive—often more exclusive—than private schools.

The RNC on the CCSSI, OMG!

Count us as among those surprised and alarmed by the Republican National Committee’s ill-considered decision to adopt a resolution decrying the Common Core standards.

The Right Response to the Atlanta Cheating Scandal

The burden rests on those who want to eliminate testing and accountability to provide assurance that the system won’t revert back to its bad old ways.

Left-of-Center Reformers: Join the Voucher Movement Today

If the lack of accountability is reformers’ beef with voucher programs, that concern has been alleviated, at least in several states.

Why Are Elite Colleges More Selective Than Ever?

Anyone who knows a teenager understands how hard it is to get into a good college these days.

Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century

Perhaps the biggest failing of the education system is its fragmented approach to making decisions. There are too many cooks in the education system and nobody is really in charge.

The Seattle MAP Flap

Teachers of Seattle’s Garfield High School are “boycotting” the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment, which is required by the district, though the MAP is precisely the type of “good” assessment that many educators claim to favor.

Indiana and the Common Core

Don’t let your frustration with President Obama lead you to lash out at the kids of Indiana. All things considered, the Common Core is the smartest path forward.

The Charter Expulsion Flap: Who Speaks for the Strivers?

Predictably, the anti-reform crowd is having a field day with Sunday’s Washington Post article reporting the relatively high rate of student expulsions in D.C.’s charter school sector.

Karen Lewis: The 2012 Education Person of the Year

If 2011 was the “year of school choice,” then 2012 was the “year of the resurgent teachers union.” And leading the comeback was Chicago’s Karen Lewis.

Charter School Penetration by City

National statistics hide the immense variation in charter school market share in cities around the nation—ranging from 0 percent in Seattle to 76 percent in New Orleans.

The 10 Fastest-Gentrifying Public Schools in the U.S.

Gentrification has supplied us with the best opportunity in a generation to create socioeconomically-mixed public schools. But is that opportunity being seized

Three Ways to Create Integrated Schools in Newly Gentrified Neighborhoods

In urban communities across America, middle-class and upper-middle-class parents have started sending their children to public schools again—schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

A Not-So-Great Night for Education Reform

The results are in (well, most of them anyway) and our non-partisan candidate, Ed Reform, had a mixed performance.

Education Reform on the Ballot

Want to know if school reform is winning in the court of public opinion? Here are seven races and referenda to watch tonight.

Let a New Teacher-Union Debate Begin

Examining the power—and the impact—of education’s 800-pound gorilla

What’s More Powerful than Hurricane Sandy? Hurricane Randi!

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a path-breaking study, How Strong are U.S. Teacher Unions? A State by State Comparison.

Indiana and the Common Core: Tony Bennett Got It Right

Tony Bennett is bogged down in a two-front war in his bid for reelection as Indiana’s State Superintendent.

The Catholic School Generation

The vice presidential debate will be an historic occasion, with two Roman Catholic candidates for national office squaring off against each other for the first time.

What’s Next on the School Reform Agenda

Is there a way to a grand bargain on education funding?

What the Chicago Strike is Really About

The unions are feeling whipsawed by tectonic shifts that have occurred within the Democratic Party in recent years.

Conflict is Unavoidable

There are times when the interests of the teachers and those of the broader public are not the same.

The Chicago Strike: It’s Hard to Imagine the Teachers Winning in the Court of Public Opinion

Chicago teachers might want to show Rahm Emmanuel they can’t be “bullied.” But President Obama no doubt wants this strike over quickly.

Flap in Virginia Shows Reformers’ Fealty to Ideology over Implementation

No Child Left Behind’s aspirational aims were more effective as rhetoric than as an accountability regime.

Searching in Vain for the “Invest-in-the-Future” Ticket

At a time when we’re running a trillion-dollar deficit, are we really sure that education is the place where cuts should come first?

The 30 Top Education Policy Tweeters, 2012

Arne Duncan assumes the throne as Education Policy Social Media King

Paul Ryan and the Education Lobby’s Suicide March to Fiscal Oblivion

Paul Ryan’s “radical” reforms would free up money for education nationwide. It’s too bad that the public-education lobby remains unwilling to acknowledge it.

America’s Athletics vs. Academics: The Results Might Surprise You

Lo and behold, the U.S.A. is at the top of this medal count!

A Little Context on Racial Disparities in Suspension Rates

The Civil Rights Project is getting a ton of press attention for its new report finding that black students are suspended at much higher rates than their peers. But does that mean that our public schools are racist?

In Praise of PBS Kids

Maybe Uncle Sam should subsidize children’s television on PBS after all.

Testing and Accountability: We Can’t Rest on Our Laurels

The testing-and-accountability movement can be proud of its accomplishments under No Child Left Behind, but the strategy has run out of steam.

Alexander v. Spellings on the Federal Role in Education: A Viewer’s Guide

Lamar Alexander and Margaret Spellings represent two fast-diverging wings of the Republican Party regarding the appropriate federal role in education.

The Case for Public-School Choice in the Suburbs

Should parents in well-off suburban school districts be able to choose between schools that offer different approaches to learning?

Can Schools Spur Social Mobility?

Maybe Charles Murray is wrong, but we should be talking about these issues all the same.