More Real Clear Education: California Waives Testing… and Accountability
Last week, after months of speculation, California finally earned a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.
PreK–12 Education
The Early Learning Assessment Literacy Challenge
Across all levels of learning, assessments satisfy accountability concerns and structure understanding of what children know and are able to
At Real Clear Education: Anemic Accountability and How We Can Fix It
How can they raise standards with one hand, while removing accountability for meeting them with the other?
New Daily Beast Column: De Blasio’s Shrinking Window of Opportunity on Charter Schools
While Bill de Blasio swept into office with a convincing electoral victory last fall, his first few months have been challenging.
College Admissions Exams Connecting to the Work of High School…Why Now?
The SAT and ACT have “become disconnected from the work of our high schools.”
New Talking Points Memo Column: Why Doesn’t English Language Learning Have the Same Cachet as Pre-K?
Why is pre-K such an easier sell?
Key Questions: Education Policy in the President’s 2015 Budget
President Barack Obama submitted his fiscal year 2015 budget request to Congress on March 4, 2014.
New Daily Beast Column on Public Charter Schools and New York Politics
There’s an intra-Democratic Party fight roiling New York today.
Adult Education Data Show Signs of Declining Investment
FEBP announced the addition of state and federal adult education data to its publicly available database.
New Data Provide a Picture of D.C.’s Promise Neighborhood
This morning, the DCPNI held an event to roll out data from a community study they conducted with the Urban Institute.