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- "Getting anything done is a process, not an event. When you are oriented to getting things done, it can be frustrating."
- Economic Segregation of Schools
- "I got the impression that her learning curve where higher ed is concerned is quite vertical."
- Making College Work: Nudging Student Behavior
- For Teachers: The Most Powerful Question
- Overcoming the Stigma of Voc Ed In Today's CTE
- What Chile Teaches Us About School Vouchers
- Supporting Social, Emotional and Academic Development
- It's a mundane malaise that dampens dreams, dims horizons and denies futures."
- Tuition Tax Credits: Boon or Boondoggle?
- “This is not about letting institutions off the hook – they still have important work to do. [But] through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has clearly pushed schools to overreach."
- What We Know—And Need to Know—About Private-School Choice
- Op-Ed: The Weakness in D.C.'s Voucher Program
- Schools with High Levels of Chronic Absenteeism
- Portraits of Change: Reducing Chronic Absence
- The Impact of the Great Recession on Student Achievement: Evidence from Population Data
- A President's Commitment to the Common Good
- "Condemning the KKK and Nazis is a really low bar."
- The Facts About D.C.'s Teacher Reforms
- How Teachers Impact Social-Emotional Skills
- The Don’t Do It Depository
- "The views of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other racist bigots are totally abhorrent to the American ideal. We all have a role to play in rejecting views that pit one group of people against another. Such views are cowardly, hateful and just plain wrong."
- Enemies, Idiots, and Outcomes in the Charter World
- Public Support for Charter Schools
- Is Free College Best for Helping Low-Income Students?
- Revisiting The Widget Effect: Teacher Evaluation Reforms and the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness
- How Much Time Principals Spend on Curriculum
- "It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to waive a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level."
- The Consequences of Educational Voucher Reform in Chile
- "For all of the beauty of technology and all the things we've helped facilitate over the years, nothing yet replaces human interactions."
- What Works to Combat Chronic Absenteeism
- Stress Overload for College Freshman 1985-2016
- For the Common Good: The Spillover Effects of Charter Schools on Public School Students in New York City
- School Finance is Coming Out of the Dark Ages
- The Challenge of Paying for a New Kind of Learning
- Overestimated Student Proficiency
- U.S. Teacher Median Salary
- Who Completes College 1980-2017
- The Equity Problem in Teachers' Pensions
- Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program
- Connecting the Steps: State Strategies to Ease the Transition from Pre-K to Kindergarten
- "Out of Michigan, without her checkbook, DeVos is like a mermaid with legs: clumsy, conspicuous, and unable to move forward."
- Demonstrated Interest: Signaling Behavior in College Admissions
- “I think school choice advocates, and I’m one of them, have made a lot more progress state-by-state and community-by-community than in Washington. I think it’s more difficult here.”
- Racial and Socioeconomic Gaps in Executive Function Skills in Early Elementary School
- Graduation and Special-Needs Students
- Let’s Not Panic About Growth Mindset
- “Fitting In” and Rising Graduation Rates at UT Austin
- What’s at Stake for Schools in the Health Care Bill?
- "Ms. Jackson’s callous, insensitive, and egregious comments regarding sexual assault on college campuses crossed a serious line and highlighted her clear biases."
- "We can’t go back to the days when allegations were swept under the rug. And I acknowledge there was a time when women were essentially dismissed. That is not acceptable. It’s clear that there are failings in this process. A system without due process protections ultimately serves no one in the end.”
- America’s Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century
- Percentage Studying Foreign Language
- Where Teacher Eval Reform was a Home Run
- Percentage of English Language Learners
- "We urge your administration to not just commit to protecting the civil rights of all students in this country, but to also do so proactively and with the utmost urgency."
- How State ESSA Accountability Plans Can Shine a Statistically Sound Light on More Students
- Student Arrests by Race
- From Frenzied to Focused: How School Staffing Models Can Support Principals as Instructional Leaders
- Law Enforcement Officers, Not School Counselors
- Vouchers in the Crossroads, Heterogeneous Impacts on Student Achievement and Attendance across Private Schools in Indiana
- Principal Churn
- "Within the Beltway and education policy circles, people come to these studies and ask ‘Do voucher programs work?’ I view that as the wrong question to ask. The question is are there good schools, effective schools of all governance types available to low-income and other disadvantaged children?"
- Voucher Research Shows Decline, Rebound in Scores
- California Accountability: An ESSA Bellwether?
- Tuition Tax Credits Let Private School Donors Turn a Profit
- Between District and Charter: The Middle Path
- Learning Mindsets and Skills: An Opportunity for Growth with the Every Student Succeeds Act
- Teacher Hours in Front of the Classroom
- "Superintendents in Pennsylvania and across the nation have been clear that the Republican health care plan will devastate our schools."
- Labor Market Returns for Graduates of Hispanic-Serving Institutions
- African American Students in Charter Schools
- To Find the Value a Teacher Adds, Look Beyond Test Scores
- "I suggest we focus less on what word comes before 'school' – whether it be traditional, charter, virtual, magnet, home, parochial, private or any approach yet to be developed and focus instead on the individuals they are intended to serve."
- "Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test."
- “This is a difficult budget request to defend. I think it’s likely that the kinds of cuts that are proposed in this budget will not occur."
- Where the Homeless Students Are
- "Education is not mayonnaise. The day we start treating education of our children like the marketing of a condiment is the day we've given up on our kids."
- Remarks at the 2017 Education Writers Association National Seminar
- DCPS Teacher Pay
- D.C. Teaching (cont.)
- Elevating Teaching Lifts a City's Schools
- FutureEd, McCourt School to Host EWA Conference This Week
- “This budget reflects the views of an administration filled with people who frankly never had to worry about their children going to college."
- Skipping Class and Chronic Absenteeism
- Mining Chronic Absence Data for More Insights
- "The opponents of modernizing our education system will pull out all the stops. They will not go quietly into the night."
- Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
- Candice Jackson: In Her Own Words
- "We've done young people a disservice for a long time in suggesting that if you're going to be successful as an adult, that you have to go to a four-year college or university."
- How Charters Change a School District
- "This is what winning for young children and kids from all over the country looks like."
- Graduation Rates for Pell Grant Recipients
- The 20% Solution: Selective Colleges and Pell Grants
- Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in the Context of New Accountability
- "We would tell those who work to destroy our public schools, no matter how well-intentioned they might think themselves to be, to stop invoking 'civil rights.' It is a grave insult to the great American martyrs who died in service to that cause
- How Do Schools Respond to State Policies on Teacher Evaluation?
- Yes, Secretary DeVos, There is a Common Core
- States and the Common Core
- "There’s isn’t really any Common Core anymore, and each state is able to set the standards for their state."
- "My mission is to unleash a new era of innovation in education to drive unprecedented achievement."
- Pathways to the University Presidency: The Future of Higher Education Leadership
- Teachers, Students, Race and Behavior
- Denying the "School Choice Deniers" Argument
- College Applications in 1990 and 2015
- Building a New Middle Class in the Knowledge Economy
- How Did Chronic Absenteeism Become a Thing?
- Bridging the District-Charter Divide to Help More Students Succeed
- The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
- Jason Botel: From Ed Reformer to White House to Ed Dept.
- "Common Core. I mean, we have to bring education more local. We can’t be managing education from Washington. When I go out to Iowa, when I go out to the different states and I talk, they want to run their school programs locally."
- Did the New Orleans School Reforms Increase Segregation?
- Small School Districts
- The Surprising Sources of Racial Gaps in Higher Education
- College Affordability
- Understanding Teacher Retention and Mobility in Washington State
- "I think the first and most important measure of accountability to the public is to the parents in general, right? The fact that parents choose a school for their child.”
- The Smart Money: Designing A School Budget
- Improving Title II of the Elementary and Secondary School Act
- "Schools are still a national issue, but there is a consensus that the issues not to be resolved from Washington."
- "I want to be very clear: the massive and immediate cuts to education, health care, medical research, and other middle class and worker priorities that President Trump is demanding are absolute non-starters for Democrats."
- Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs
- Limited Means, Limited Options
- The Surplus of Teacher-prep Programs
- "I was all for ESSA's devolution of authority back to the states. But I'm now living a vivid, painful example of how federalism can be used to advance adult interests at the expense of students."
- "The reality is that private schools receiving taxpayer funds lack accountability and transparency, can deny students and parents basic rights, and are inaccessible to students in rural areas and students who cannot afford to pay the difference in cost between the voucher and private school tuition."
- School Choice & Trump's Budget: A Chat with Martin West
- Corporal Punishment in US Schools
- Proficiency vs. Growth: Toward a Better Measure
- Parsing Betsy DeVos on the Education Budget
- Private School Choice Across the States
- Health and Academic Achievement
- Don’t Forget Magnet Schools When Thinking About School Choice
- "The budget places power in the hands of parents and families to choose schools that are best for their children by investing an additional $1.4 billion in school choice programs."
- "We're going to do what's best for children by implementing the law as Congress intended, with the freedom and flexibility that state and local leaders deserve."
- Americorps' Value
- What Title I Portability Would Mean for Federal Education Aid
- The Gap Within the Gap
- Teacher Absenteeism
- "It will give Secretary DeVos a blank check to promote her anti-public-school agenda."
- "Here is the problem with this rule that was put out by the U.S. Department of Education: the rule specifically does things or requires states to do things that Congress said ... the Department can’t do. In other words, the Department’s regulation specifically violates the law."
- "I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African-American and Latino children. These families should be free to choose public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them."
- Jobs and College Degrees
- DeVos Decoded: Who, What, When and Where
- Diane Ravitch's Problematic Polemics
- Novice State Leaders
- Tennessee Teachers and Evaluation
- Teacher Performance and Tenure
- "Do you agree...that all schools that receive taxpayer funding should be equally accountable?" "Well no...."
- "The path to higher standards and better teaching and real accountability is community by community, classroom by classroom, state by state, and not through the federal government."
- "We have a unique window of opportunity to make school choice a reality for millions of families."
- "I want every single inner-city child in America, who is today trapped in a failing school, to have the freedom — the civil right — to attend the school of their choice."
- "I can tell the attitude is more of a ‘receive mode.’ They’re waiting to be told what they have to do, and that’s not going to bring success to an individual child. You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching."
- Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education
- Vouchers in Indiana's Private Schools
- DeVos and Kaine on School Accountability
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- Interview Post Test 2
- Interview Post Test 1
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