Coffee Break: Ken Wagner on Improving Rhode Island’s Schools and the Perfect Glass of Milk

Despite its tiny size, my home state of Rhode Island is no stranger to big challenges when it comes to its schools. And our new…

Here’s Why School Choice Is the Only Choice for Many Working Parents

When I was in elementary school, my father drove a semi-truck and my mother stayed home. She cooked and cleaned and took care of eight…

We’ve finally started to receive our student-level results here in Colorado from the first year of PARCC tests, which were given way back in the halcyon days when Donald Trump was just a reality TV creature. During the interim 10 months—and, come to think of it, even before a single student had faced a single PARCC question—the tests were getting a rough ride here in Colorado and across the country. As part of the perfect-storm backlash…

Don’t Forget, #SchoolChoice Belongs to the Parents

As a parent of eight scholars, I have been part of the charter community for nearly 17 years in Chicago. I have had eight children…

These Numbers Are Sobering, But They Make the Case for High Standards

Success stories often make for good newspaper articles, and the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta has recently received national attention for its transformative culture of…

Earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his state of the state speech. With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday following only days later, I couldn’t help but reflect on the lack of progress my city of New York has made towards ending social inequality, and narrowing long-standing achievement gaps. During his “I Have A Dream” speech, Dr. King Jr. envisioned a day where “little black boys and girls will be holding…

Don’t Let the Party Poopers Ruin Your #SchoolChoiceWeek

It’s National School Choice Week, an annual celebration of all the forms of school choice. More than 16,000 separate events will take place as families,…

No More Crumbling Schools, Our Kids Need Green Schools

It’s 2016 and there are still children that are not guaranteed a healthy, environmentally-sound educational building. Despite so much progress, we still have work to…

Nate Bowling is not only the 2016 Teacher of the Year for the state of Washington but he's also one of four finalists for National Teacher of the Year. He has written a piece for his blog, A Teacher's Evolving Mind, that will stop you in your tracks because of how painfully true it is. The Conversation I'm Tired of Not Having is a must-read. Ask yourself, would suburban schools ever be allowed to decay like what we saw in Detroit? Nope.…

Matt Barnum at The Seventy Four highlights the arrival of a new organization to the Education scene focused entirely on school funding, more specifically, state funding. EdBuild doesn't find itself on either "side" of the education war; it simply wants smarter and better funding for schools. EdBuild’s mission is seemingly simple: “to bring more common sense and fairness to the way we fund schools.” Sibilia says that objective has already…