Everything You Need to Know About the NAACP’s Stance on Charter Schools

This post is continually updated with up-to-date information. In a scathing article by the Wall Street Journal, the NAACP is called out for "taking orders from its union backers"—those union backers being the United Federation of Teachers and National Education Association—"to oppose charter schools."…

Is Politics the Problem in Education or the Solution?

Politics is at the heart of so much that is wrong with public education. On the left, education politics is often about increasing funding while…

Does LAUSD Want to Protect Children or a Bloated Bureaucracy?

Across America, parents are demanding more and better educational options for their children while teachers unions and bureaucrats desperately fight to retain their monopoly over…

#ParentsSay Twitter Chat Roundup: Their Child, Their Choice

Parents and educators expressed their opinions of school choice in a recent #ParentsSay Twitter chat hosted by Education Post with Nina Rees, Rep. Jared Polis and…

To Our Progressive Friends: There Are Communities of Color That Want Public Charter Schools

In progressive publications and websites like Slate and Salon, there’s a narrative underway that charter schools are part of a plot to privatize public education.…

Latinos Need Accountability for Our Schools, Not More Charter School Debates

The current debate on the role of charter schools misses the mark. The notion that the entire K-12 public school system in this nation could…

Here’s What Parents Actually Want From Standardized Tests

Educators know kids are more than a test score, but do they communicate this well enough to parents? With testing season underway and some educators…

This Is Not What Respect for the Teaching Profession Looks Like

As a teacher with lots of experience giving standardized tests, I recently took one myself: an administrative placement test here in Colorado, following a two-year…

We Have the Test Scores, Now What?

When I picked my daughter up from school that day, her usual, gleeful “Hi Mommy” did not enter the car. Instead I was greeted by…

America, We Do Not Have a ‘Too Much Homework’ Problem

If this op-ed from The New York Times is to be believed, American education suffers from placing overambitious expectations onto children, subjecting them to grueling…