Who Gets Access to School Data? A Case Study in How Privacy, Politics & Budget Pressures Can Affect Education Research
Exclusive: Too Hot to Learn: Records Show Nearly a Dozen of the Biggest School Districts Lack Air Conditioning
74 Interview: Harvard Researcher David Deming Takes the Long View on Head Start, Integration
To Test or Not to Test: As Tax Credit Scholarships Expand, Questions About Accountability and Outcomes
Even After Colorado’s Teacher Evaluation ‘Revolution,’ Fewer Than One in 1,000 Rated Ineffective
The 74 Interview: Ulrich Boser on Understanding the Science of Learning
The School Discipline Revolution: How Policy and Rhetoric Outstrip Hard Evidence
New Studies Suggest Choice of Curriculum and Textbooks Can Make a Big Difference for Students
New Study: D.C. Scholarship Students Scored Worse in Math, Particularly in Elementary School
Report: 5 Ways to Address Teacher Shortages — Where They Really Exist
New Study: 3 Ways to Tell If a Charter School Will Struggle Before It Even Opens Its Doors
A Form of Professional Development That Research Shows Might Actually Help Teachers: Coaching
5 Things We Now Know About Teacher Diversity: What Researcher Constance Lindsay Has Found About Race in School
The Power of One: New Research Shows Black Students See Big Benefits From a Single Black Teacher
School Equity Lawsuits Face Setbacks: Have Judges Closed the Courthouse Door to Students?
New York Times Misuses Their Data When Linking School Quality to Home Prices, Researchers Say
The Political Parallels and Contradictions of the School Choice, Food Choice — Er, Food Stamps — Debate
Where Education Research, Politics & Policy Intersect: 3 States Reveal How Data Help Shape Their ESSA Plans
New Research May Build Discrimination Case for Widely Used Principals Exam
Impact of Weaker Unions in Wisconsin and Other States Much Clearer for Teachers Than Students
Could the Every Student Succeeds Act Break the Link Between Poverty and Bad School Ratings?
Exclusive Data: City Schools vs. Suburban Schools, See Where Security Officers Outnumber the Counselors
Analysis: Charter Schools Spend More on Administration — but It Might Not Be Bad for Kids
Kansas Supreme Court Rules School Funding System Unconstitutional — Again
The 74 Interview: Houston Chronicle Reporter on How He Uncovered the Year’s Biggest Education Scandal
Trump Doubles Down on School Choice, but Plan Likely Faces Uphill Battle in Congress
Online Charter Schools Have Poor Track Record, but They Can Reach Places Other Schools Can’t
Hard to Game, Easy to Use: Chronic Absenteeism Gains Ground as New ESSA Measure of Student Success
Study: Weakening Tenure in Louisiana May Have Caused Thousands of Teachers to Quit
The Certification Maze: Why Teachers Who Cross State Lines Can’t Find Their Way Back to the Classroom
What If Every Struggling Student Had a Tutor? It Won’t Be Cheap, but It Might Be Worth It
The 74 Interview: Kirabo Jackson on the Importance of School Spending, ‘Soft Skills’ and Teacher Quality
The 74 Interview: Denver Schools Chief Talks ‘Trump Effect,’ School Closures and Teacher Performance Pay
From a Sea of Senate Questions: 6 Key Takeaways in Betsy DeVos’s Answers
8 Lingering Questions to Confront After the Failure of Obama’s $7B School Turnaround Plan
Teachers Have to Wait 25 Years to See Pension Benefits, New Study Says, But Is the Fix Really Better?
Some Private Schools That May Benefit From Trump’s Voucher Plan Are Weak on Discrimination Rules
Barnum: The Growth vs. Proficiency Debate and Why Al Franken Raised a Boring but Critical Issue
Barnum: Obama’s Education Legacy Mirrors the Rest of His Presidency — Accomplished but Polarizing
Fact-Checking the DeVos Hearing: What the Data Shows About Michigan’s Charter Schools
3 Big Problems in How Schools Hire Teachers — and What Research Says About How to Solve Them
Inside the Fight to Save Detroit’s Schools: Betsy DeVos’s Campaign for Choice Over Local Control
Barnum: Education Myths to Leave Behind in 2016 — 8 Dearly Held Beliefs That Aren’t Necessarily True
Yes, Poor Students Get Worse Teachers, but That Doesn’t Explain Most of the Achievement Gap
Betsy DeVos Promises to “Make Education Great Again” — but When Was It Great?
Is School Segregation Getting Worse? By Some Measures, No — but It’s Not Getting Any Better
74 Interview: Louisiana Schools Chief John White on ESSA, School Closures and Local Control in NOLA
Oklahoma’s Teacher of the Year Makes Just $35,419 — and He Won’t Get a Big Raise Anytime Soon
The Cult of Finland: What American Schools CAN’T Learn From International Comparisons
Betsy Devos, Trump’s EdSec Pick, Promoted Virtual Schools Despite Dismal Results
The New White Flight: Research Shows Some North Carolina Charters Are Making Segregation Worse
Analysis: How Betsy DeVos Could Scramble the Ideology and Politics of Education Reform
Vouchers Could Be the Big Winner in Trump’s School Choice Plan, but Is That a Victory for Students?
Work Inside President Trump’s Ed Department? No Way, Say Some Policy Experts and Advocates
The Real Threat to Common Core May Come Not From a Trump White House but From Many Statehouses
Trump’s Education Paradox: Return Schools to Local Control — By Expanding Federal Power?
Oklahoma Voters Reject Initiative to Raise Teacher Pay
Eleven Things You Might Not Know About Teacher Retention and Turnover — but Should
Black Kids in Michigan Often Stuck in Classes With More Than 40 Kids, New Study Reveals
‘Best’ High Schools May Not Be as Good as You Think — What That Means for Parents, Policymakers
What Research Says About Mass. Charter Cap Debate: From Graduation Rates to School Funding
Research Shows Students Can Benefit When a School Closes — but Only If There Are Better Ones to Attend
50 Years Later, What America Still Hasn’t Learned From the Coleman Report
The 74 Fact-Check: Are Teachers Really Burning Out Because of Tougher Tests and Evaluations?
The Yale Study on Pre-K Teachers and Bias Didn’t Find What You Think It Found
74 Interview: Jeb Bush — Yes on Choice and Standards, No on Trump and Clinton
Analysis: Hillary Clinton Is Right About Head Start
Three Incredibly Obvious Reasons Fewer People Want to Be Teachers: Study
New Research: Chicago Teacher Eval Pilot Moved Out Struggling Teachers, Kept Stronger Ones
74 Interview: Former L.A. Superintendent John Deasy Previews New Initiative to Rethink Juvenile Prisons
Reality Check: Are the Education Changes Demanded By Connecticut Judge Even Possible?
The 74 Interview: Harvard Education School Dean Jim Ryan Talks School Funding, Vergara and Ed Research
8 Things We Learned From a Big New Texas Study on Charter Schools and Students’ Future Income
If It Cannot Be Wise, It Must Be Sensible: Judge’s Withering Words on Connecticut’s Public Schools
Connecticut’s Critical Deadline: Judge Says State Must Fix Public Education in Six Months
The Problem With Homework: Not Much Evidence on Whether It Works
74 Interview: Researcher Susan Dynarski on Boston Charters, Student Poverty, and Data in Education
When Public Charter Schools Are Private: Labor Rulings Highlight Often Blurred Line
Why Teacher Pay Matters: Recruitment and Retention Can Improve Results
New Study Shows Ohio Virtual Schools Are Failing Their Students — Even as Thousands More Enroll
Researchers: No Consensus Against Using Test Scores in Teacher Evaluations, Contra Democratic Platform
Does Trump Nomination Mean End of GOP In School Reform? It’s Complicated
Review: Paul Tough’s Impoverished Agenda for Helping Children Succeed
Exclusive: Amendment Adds Imaginary Testing Standard to Democratic Education Platform
Putting the ‘Achievable Over the Ambitious’: The Problem When Teachers Grade Themselves
Which Comes First, Good Teachers or a Good School? Researchers Say Yes
Ohio Study Latest to Show Poor Voucher Results: 7 Theories Dissect The Trend
Several HS Math Textbooks Not Aligned With Common Core, Ratings Group Finds
Christie Plan for Funding NJ Schools Widely Criticized; Cami Anderson Warns of ‘Devastating Impact’
California in the Age of ESSA: Can Schools Be Held Accountable Without Real Consequences
The Purge: California Leaves Researchers (and Policymakers) in the Dark by Gutting Education Data
How California Gov. Jerry Brown Fought the Federal Government on Education Policy — and Won
Analysis: Charter Groups Call for Reforms of Underperforming Virtual Schools
A Teacher Satisfaction Gap? New Study Shows Teachers of Color Less Happy in Their Schools
The Exit Exam Paradox: Did States Raise Standards So High They Then Had to Lower the Bar to Graduate?
Study: The Real Reason Some People Don’t Like ObamaCore, Er, Common Core
What Happens When a School Gets a Failing Grade? It Gets Better
New Map: School Funding Inequality, Often Measured By State, Is Far Worse Nationally Than You Think
Mississippi, Desegregating: What the Research Shows About the Academic Value of Integrating Schools
Study Shows New Orleans Students More Likely to Stay in Same School After City’s Education Reforms
NY Teacher Wins Court Case Against State’s Evaluation System, But May Appeal to Set Wider Precedent
12th-graders’ Federal Tests Scores Dip in Math and Reading While More Manage to Graduate
Study: No Child Left Behind Improved Teacher Attendance in Struggling Schools
The Merit Pay Myth: Why the Conventional Wisdom About Paying Teachers Is Wrong
In New York City, Teachers Cheated to Help Students Graduate — and it Worked
The 74 Interview: Prof. Matt Delmont on How Northern Whites Used Busing to Derail School Integration
The Research Missing From the L.A. Charter Debate? 3 Key Studies Show Gains for Students
Washington State’s Schools Chief Is So Fed Up About Underfunded Schools He Might Run for Governor
Clinton Says She Wouldn’t Opt Out, But Her Common Core Critique Hints at a Rebuke of Obama, Duncan
Are Charter Schools a Cause of — or a Solution to — Segregation?
Report: Career and Technical Education Programs Can Boost Graduation, Wages
VIDEO: New Research Shows True Toll Cheating Scandal Took on Atlanta’s Most Vulnerable Students
Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis
Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis
5 Key Lessons from the Successes (and Failures) of President Obama’s Teacher Evaluation Reforms
Connecticut School Funding on Trial: After A Decade, Equity Gets Its Day in Court
Exclusive: Education Cities and GreatSchools to Admit Flaw in Statewide Rankings of School Inequality
Exclusive — Data Shows 3 of the 5 Biggest School Districts Hire More Security Officers Than Counselors
New Research Shows How a Federal School Turnaround Program Backfired in North Carolina
74 Interview: Nate Bowling, WA’s Teacher of the Year, on the Surprising Reaction to His ‘Conversation’ Essay
John Kasich’s Education Record: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
UCLA Report on Charter School Discipline Makes Important Points — But Has Some Important Limitations
Feeling Confused by The Bern? 4 Theories on What Sanders Actually Thinks About Charter Schools
From Common Core to Cheating Scandals, 5 Studies that Can Help Improve Education Policy
Group Pushes Broader Approach for Helping Kids — But Can it Build a Broad Coalition?
74 Interview: Denver’s Mayor on Testing, Hillary Clinton and America’s Fastest-Growing Urban School District
From Arne Duncan on Down: 23 Critical Education Questions for the Presidential Candidates
Opinion: Where Linda Darling-Hammond’s Bold Claims on Testing, Teachers, and New Orleans Go Wrong
New Research: States That Chose (or Were Forced) to Spend More Money on Poor Schools Saw Student Gains
The Happiness Factor: Research Moves Beyond Test Scores to Find Strongest Teachers
Don’t Humiliate Teachers… But Fire the Worst: Does David Denby Realize He’s Agreeing With Reformers?
Have We Built a Better Test? 9 Ways ‘Next Generation Assessments’ Are Different — and the Same
Twice as Many Schools Pushing Integration, Versus 10 Years Ago — Based on Class Rather than Race
The Fact-Check: Not Every State Takeover of a Troubled School District Deserves an F
Research Suggests D.C.’s Tough Teacher Evaluation System Helped Students. 7 Big Lessons for Other Cities
A Radically Sensible Proposal for Training Teachers: Make it Easier to Enter, Harder to Stay
“A National Disgrace”: Explaining the Past, Present, and Future of Detroit Public Schools
EdBuild: How a New Player in the Ed Reform Game Is Skipping the Usual Battle Lines to Focus on Funding
New Research: 3 Insights Into Molding Better Student Teachers
The Detroit ‘Sick-Out’ Makes a Valid Point: Crumbling Schools Shown to Hurt Learning
New Center for American Progress Report: Tougher Standards Strengthen Student Achievement
No, Gov. Cuomo Didn’t Kill Test-Based Teacher Evals. In Fact, His ‘Moratorium’ Could Fuel More Testing
School Choice Advocates Celebrate as Department of Justice Closes Investigation of Milwaukee Vouchers
Ohio Fixed Its Scandal-Plagued Charter Schools, Right? Not So Fast
New York Times Gives Credence to Conservatives’ Common Core Delusion
We Asked the Experts: 8 Common (but Worthless) Education Phrases That Are Banned in 2016
The Duncan Era: Assessing a Tenure That Drove Swift Change — and Sharp Backlash
The Fact-Check: Why John Merrow’s Misleading DC Rant Ignores Facts, Research and the Full Truth
What Economic Recovery? Analysis Finds Many States Spending Less on Schools Than Before Recession
Denver Study Shows Simplifying Enrollment Drove More Disadvantaged Students to Sign Up for Charter Schools
New Report Grades Best (and Worst) Cities for School Choice. Where Does Your Town Rank?
Boston Charters Post Huge Test Gains, But Discipline Debate Could Hinder Expansion
Q&A: State Senator (and Former Principal) Mike Johnston, on Advancing Colorado Education Reform
Closing Bad NYC Schools Helped Next Generation of Students: 5 Takeaways from Groundbreaking Report
Hillary Clinton Reality Check: With NCLB Rewrite, Next President’s Education Platform Is Likely Irrelevant
2 New Reports Show That We Really Don’t Have a Great Way to Evaluate Teachers
Fact-Checking Clinton on Charter Students: She Misses the Big Picture — but Also Has a Point
The Milwaukee GOP Debate: In the Birthplace of School Choice, Will Free Market Talk Extend to K-12?
Fact-Check: Hey Education Pundits, Stop Writing Early Obituaries for School Improvement Grants
New Report Highlights Teacher Eval Paradox: High Ratings Across the Board, But Growing Backlash
The War Over Evaluating Teachers—Where it Went Right and How it Went Wrong
Study: Online Charter Schools Not Making the Grade
Obama Vows to Reduce Testing — But Doing So May Be Harder than it Seems
Beware the NAEP Overreactions: 4 Reasons Why Education Pundits Should Rein in the Rhetoric This Week
How Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and the Far Right’s Bizarre NCLB Strategy May Actually Save Federal Education Role
Why Arizona Parents Are Legally Not Allowed to Opt Their Kids Out of Testing
Research Shows That … Education Journalists Don’t Always Use Research All That Well
John King’s Common Core Education: What Getting Schooled in NY Will Mean for His Tenure as Ed Sec
Ohio Legislators Push Through Charter Reform Law, But Fixes Hinge on Troubled Ed Department
New Report: Schools Pay a Premium for Experienced Teachers But It May Not Boost Teacher Quality
Ohio’s Charter School Disaster: How Big Profits and Pay-to-Play Operators Have Derailed Reform
What if No Child Left Behind Worked and Nobody Realized it? Blame the Media.
Resisting School Integration: A Brooklyn Case Study in Scared Parents and Bad Data
Fact-Check: Are Washington’s Charters Harming the State’s Traditional Public Schools?
A Nashville Charter Showdown Over a Book Assignment Sparks a Social Media Frenzy
New Research: Telling Parents Their School Is Bad Doesn’t Help If They Don’t Have Better Options
Fact-Check: Just How Many Tenured Teachers Are Fired Each Year Anyway? (Hint: Not Many)
A NYT Contributor Attacks the ‘Myth’ of New Orleans’ School Progress After Katrina. She’s Wrong
Separating Fact from Fiction at the Education Summit: What Research Confirms (and Disproves) About the Rhetoric
Q&A: New Orleans Education Expert Doug Harris Walks Through His Research Showing a Decade of Student Gains
NH Summit: Carly Fiorina Decries Federal Education Bureaucracy, Says It’s Killing School Innovation
Actually, Key and Peele, We Need to Treat Pro Athletes More Like Teachers
New study: Ignoring teacher performance in layoffs hurts kids
Inside New Hampshire’s Common Core Showdown: Will Gov. Hassan’s Veto Embolden the Critics?
Fact-Checking All Those Charter Critics Who Snatched Defeat from Jaws of New Orleans’ Victory
Inside the New TNTP Research: Is Teacher Training Just An Expensive Waste of Time?
“I Didn’t Deserve My Diploma:” One Brave New York City Teen Blows the Whistle on Her School
Normandy High, By the Numbers: Inside Michael Brown’s School, a Snapshot of Staggering Inequality
Video: Dr. Howard Fuller Talks School Choice, New Orleans and the Future of the Reform Movement
New Site Grades 70,000 Schools Using Same Standards. Want to See How Yours Ranked?
Opinion: AFT Backs Hillary More on Hope than on Hard Evidence
The Fact-Check: No Vox, All the Good Schools Are NOT in Rich Neighborhoods
Arne Duncan’s Wrong Turn on Reform: How Federal Dollars Fueled the Testing Backlash
Raising The Bar Might Bar Too Many When It Comes To Teacher Certification Tests
New Report Details Why More American Charter Schools Don’t Offer Pre-K (and How to Change That)
Why the NAACP Is (Mostly) Right to Champion No Child Left Behind
Too Many States Don’t Fund Schools Fairly – and That’s a Big Problem