2021 Must Be the Year for Rural Education

It’s no secret that education reform initiatives tend to target urban schools. Achievement gaps in America’s…

Eight Recommendations for the Biden Administration

Joe Biden is sworn in as U.S. President as his wife Dr. Jill Biden looks on…

Amanda Gorman Is Climbing That Hill. Now if Only The Rest of Us Would Join Her.

Today at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman stole the show.…

I Don’t Know if Biden Can Heal This Nation, But a House Divided Cannot Stand

November 2016, I walked into my school building to students blocking their peers from coming through…

Effort to Debunk Education Technology Falters by Overstating Its Own Case

Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich Harvard University Press, 2020,…

Pandemic Parent Survey Finds Perverse Pattern: Students Are More Likely to Be Attending School in Person where Covid Is Spreading More Rapidly

School children are spaced apart in one of the rooms used for lunch at Woodland Elementary…

A National Tutoring System? Not So Fast.

Sal Khan, founder and CEO, Khan Academy, started Schoolhouse.world to connect students to teachers, peers, and…

The Education Exchange: New and Emerging Obstacles Facing Charter Schools

The senior director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for Education, Lance Izumi, joins Paul E.…

I Don’t Know How to Fix the Race Problem in America, But I’m Sure Education Won’t Hurt

If Robert Frost was correct in saying “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything…

We’re Not Even Close To Realizing Dr. King’s Dream

Two years ago I was fortunate enough to attend a showing of “Hamilton” in my hometown…