Nora De La Cour: Abolish High-Stakes Testing
Teacher Nora De La Cour writes on her blog that it is time to restore the joy of teaching and learning by abolishing high-stakes testing....
Category : Equity
Georgia: Civil Rights Groups Oppose Voucher Legislation
Civil rights groups, led by the Southern Education Foundation, are opposing the voucher legislation proposed by Republicans in Georgia. SEF leads opposition to education savings...
Education Law Center: Minnesota Considers Constitutional Amendment That Threatens Student Rights
Imagine a state that adopts a state constitutional amendment that ties student rights to an education to their test scores. Would anyone be so dumb...
Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske: States Need an Equity-Oriented Accountability System for Charter Schools
Distinguished economist Helen Ladd and her husband, journalist Edward Fiske, studied the accountability system for charter schools in Massachusetts. They specifically addressed equity issues of...
Christina Groeger: How Education Embedded Inequality
Historian of education Christina Groeger writes that Americans have long believed that education is the key to equality, but she thinks that this faith is...
Jan Resseger: Republican Moderates Want to Reduce COVID Relief Bill by Cutting Out Help for Children
Jan Resseger reminds us of the traditional Masai greeting, “How are the children?” The assumption is that if the children are well, the village or...
Matt Farmer: The Unforgettable Karen Lewis
Matt Farmer is a lawyer in Chicago and a public school parent. He is also a gifted singing cowboy. I first encountered him when he...
Houston: School Board Seeks to Squelch Student Activism
In 2015, I wrote about a group of high school students in Houston who sued the state for underfunding public schools. Valerie Strauss wrote about...
New York Review of Books: “The Dark History of School Choice”
I reviewed three books in the New York Review of Books, which seemed to me to be complementary. Together they offer a fresh interpretation of...
Arthur Camins: What Democrats Must Stand For Now
Arthur Camins reviews recent political history as a way to understand how Democrats lost their principles and values. Democrats became the party identified with both...