Results released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation’s Report Card, seem to reinforce what educators have observed for decades – that making gains in academic proficiency for substantial populations of students generally remains a slow and d...
Will a proliferation of new microschools offer a better solution for a new generation of students? A growing community within education believes they just might. What is a microschool? While strict definitions are not common, microschools are typically described with these characteristics: A microsc...
Democratic primary voters favor expanding access to public charter schools, while strengthening accountability for results, by a four-to-one margin, according to a new national poll released this week by the Benenson Strategy Group, hired by Democrats for Education Reform. The poll found that 84 per...
It’s late May, and even though the temperature in the auditorium has crept beyond comfort level, the room is filled with patient parents, grandparents, and extended family members. They are here to watch their students perform in this year’s fourth and final University Night, a collection of art...
Thank you to this distinguished commission of experts for making time from your busy lives and careers to lead this historic and vitally important undertaking. As you move this legislatively-directed process forward, I would encourage you to consider two guiding priorities in your work. First, that ...