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- “The current administration walked away from educational civil rights.”
- Parents' Loans
- "We will forgive all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt from private HBCUs and MSIs and public colleges for those with incomes up to $125,000."
- Total Student Loan Debt
- "For America’s educators, this is a great day: You’re going to have one of your own in the White House, and Jill is going to make a great First Lady."
- "You have Joe Biden, who is a student of American history and has the courage to speak the phrase Black Lives Matter."
- College Student Voters in 2016
- Solving the Diversity Dilemma at Thomas Jefferson Magnet High School
- Reopening by Election Day
- "There’s no reason that American schools shouldn’t be the safest place in America…It takes some money, more classes, more teachers, more ventilation, more technology and the rest."
- “The community must take responsibility, and it's the behavior of the community that can ultimately dictate if we can get our children back to school safely, which I agree is what is best for students' mental health.”
- Fall 2020 higher education trends
- Enrollment Declines
- "[Schools] must open safely and it requires four things: First, teachers must have PPE... Second, children must be in smaller modules…Third, sanitation compacity in the schools is upgraded…Make sure you have enough teachers for the school."
- Student Loan Pay-Off
- “Between now and the time a vaccine is administered and treatments are widely available, the surest path back to school… is an oversupply of diagnostic testing so you can take a test whenever you need one.”
- "Yes, there's a systemic injustice in this country in education and work and in law enforcement, and the way in which it is enforced."
- COVID-19 Dashboard
- Teacher Diversity
- 2020 Survey of Admissions Leaders
- "I was a law school teacher. And that’s how I regard my role here with my colleagues, who haven’t had the experience of growing up female and don’t fully appreciate the arbitrary barriers that have been put in women’s way."
- Early Childhood Education, 2002-19
- "Title IX is a necessary tool for protecting students’ rights at a time when one in five women experience sexual assault during college."
- “Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.”
- “My teacher friends are scared. They’re scared they’re going to have to stand in front of kids and make promises they cannot keep.”
- Cases at Colleges
- "We're all concerned about making sure COVID-19 doesn’t further exacerbate the disparities, the disparities that already have existed in our educational system for so many poor children and in so many communities of color. It’s unacceptable and it can’t go on like this."
- Public School Nurses
- "In a second term, I will expand charter schools and provide school choice to every family in America. And we will always treat our teachers with the tremendous respect that they deserve."
- Higher Ed Reopening Plans
- "He has made substantial investments in our historically black colleges and universities. This president also continues to fight for school choice, giving parents more options to help their children flourish."
- COVID Vaccine & Teachers
- "If I'm president on day one we'll implement the national strategy I've been laying out since March....we'll make sure our schools have the resources they need to be open, safe, and effective."
- "Too many have lost their health care; too many are struggling to take care of basic necessities like food and rent; too many communities have been left in the lurch to grapple with whether and how to open our schools safely."
- Reopening Schools
- “You know what creates more safety? Funding public schools, affordable housing, increased homeownership, job skill development, jobs, access to capital for those who want to start small businesses, or who are running small businesses in communities."
- Politicization of Reopening
- "We need some kind of federal stimulus. People think it's just a discussion about hybrid or virtual teaching, but really the long-term financial viability of school systems is definitely under great strain and pressure right now."
- Concerns for online learning
- "We already faced a learning crisis before the pandemic. Now we face a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities."
- Charter Schools and Segregation: What the Research Says
- "The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated our nation’s child hunger crisis, created record high unemployment, and caused prolonged economic hardship—leaving many families struggling to cover basic essentials."
- Student Learning Before and During Shutdown
- "We have to acknowledge and recognize that African Americans with comorbidities have fared far worse in this pandemic than any other group."
- Podcast: Reflections on a Crazy Year, What's Next for Higher Ed
- "Schools and areas with high rates of COVID-19 spread may need to consider delaying a return to full-time, in-person instruction. These schools will need the same or greater federal investments, not less."
- Masks at School
- “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
- Washington D.C. Public School Engagement Survey Review
- “We need to ensure students have a full year plus of learning. They’ve fallen behind this spring. We need to ensure they’re back in a classroom situation wherever possible and whenever possible.”
- "This is going to be a teacher-oriented Department of Education, and it's not going to come from the top down—it's going to come from the teachers up."
- Distance Learning
- "The basic fundamental goal would be as you possibly can to get the children back to school and use the public health efforts as a tool to help the children get back to school."
- Examples of proposed cuts to public education budgets
- "It's tough with schools because if you close down schools, that means the parents who rely on the schools to take care of children during the day have a difficulty."
- Varying Degrees 2020
- Additional Costs to Reopen a District
- Percent of college students that feel safe on campus
- "I mean, it’s like it's a lose-lose situation. You have parents that are demanding the schools to open. And then you have parents that are saying, we're not going to send our kids to school."
- Podcast: A President and a Provost on Plans for the Fall
- “The single best thing that we could do to help minority children and minority families is to help them go back to school safely in August and September.”
- Summer Learning Planning
- "In the most dire cases, students will have experienced trauma as issues of housing access and food insecurity are compounded by grief, loss, and even abuse. To meet these needs, schools should be prepared to offer a comprehensive set of services that address the needs of children and their families."
- Distance Learning Engagement by Income Bracket
- "We know that it will cost more to return to school. It will cost more because we need to invest in protective equipment. It will cost more because schools need to not just be cleaned but sanitized. The mental health crisis in the communities will come to the schools when we reopen. We need more nurses and counselors to support students."
- Testing for Students
- Making Up Lost Ground
- "...these regulations will undermine college and university efforts to effectively, fairly and compassionately combat sexual harassment — and treat both parties equitably when investigating and resolving campus sexual harassment and assault cases."
- NCTQ distance learning teacher benefits survey
- "Generally the right test is better than no test. But a flawed test should not continue to be required.
- "We've been able to serve families better, we've been able to serve teachers better, because we have representatives who are on the ground floor of where the needs are."
- Podcast: Will Covid Permanently Change Instruction and Costs In Higher Ed?
- Measures to Address Over-Testing, 2014 vs. 2019
- "But if we’re going to get through these difficult times; if we’re going to create a world where everybody has the opportunity to find a job, and afford college; if we’re going to save the environment and defeat future pandemics, then we’re going to have to do it together."
- "If we keep kids out of school for another year, what’s going to happen is the poor and underprivileged kids who don’t have a parent that’s able to teach them at home are not going to learn for a full year."
- COVID impacts int'l student population
- "The idea of having treatments available or a vaccine to facilitate the re-entry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bit of a bridge too far."
- Distance Learning
- Podcast: The Three Digital Waves of Higher Ed in a Pandemic
- "If we don’t help states with their revenue estimates , they have to balance their budgets and — to a large extent — we believe it’s going to come at the expense of education, so we have to come up with state and local funding.”
- School Closures By State
- "The districts and schools most likely to succeed in remote education will be those that provide a substantial amount of synchronous instruction and live student–teacher interaction."
- COVID-Impacted Student Internships
- "This virus doesn’t understand school district boundaries, and these systems we’re talking about don’t work on any of these boundaries."
- College Students' Reactions to COVID-19
- School-sponsored distance learning
- "I fully expect, though I'm humble enough to know that I can't accurately predict, that by the time we get to the fall that we will have this under control enough that it certainly will not be the way it is now, where people are shutting schools."
- "Many students and low-income families are facing financial hardships due to the pandemic need assistance from small broadband providers — many of which have already committed to sustain critical internet services and provide upgrades to ensure that the most vulnerable among us stay connected."
- "If you're a nursing school student or medical school student, we need you."
- "Homeless youth talk about school as home, they talk about school as an escape, they talk about school as family—and that’s now gone."
- How COVID-19 Impacts College-Going Students
- Potential Cost of Summer School in Light of Coronavirus
- Podcast: The Quick Pivot to Remote Education
- COVID-19 and Assessments
- "This is a point where I can say to all our educators: We need you. We need you. These children need you. These families need you."
- "Bernie has put forward a plan that would make public colleges and universities free for families whose income is below $125,000. It's a good idea, and after consideration, I am proud to add it to my platform."
- "Closing our K-12 school buildings is the responsible choice that will minimize the risk of exposure for children, educators, and families and mitigate the spread of coronavirus."
- Coronavirus K-12 school closures
- "Today the Senate chose to put #StudentsFirst and reverse @BetsyDeVosED 's harmful Borrowers Defense rule. This is an important first step to prioritizing the interests of defrauded student loan borrowers instead of predatory, for-profit colleges."
- OECD TALIS
- High School Graduation Rate
- "We cannot send our children into schools with broken heating, contaminated water, toxic mold, poor technology, and expect them to thrive."
- “We believe by eliminating these barriers, we are empowering our students to become lifelong voters and to believe in their power to make a difference."
- "I'm not sure they're appropriate every place. I can only tell you in New York, they provided parents with an alternative to send students to them. The charter schools are mixed in with the non-charter public schools, because our charter schools are public schools as well — they've helped each other."
- What Teachers Would Change
- "As president, we will guarantee free, universal childcare and pre-kindergarten to every child in America to help level the playing field, create new and good jobs, and enable parents more easily balance the demands of work and home."
- Teachers Who Value Coaching
- Principals who agree their schools can better support students with disabilities
- "Mike [Bloomberg] has always supported charter schools, he opened a record number of charter schools as mayor of New York City, and he will champion the issue as president."
- quorum
- "This budget request allows States the freedom to focus on people, not paperwork. Results, not regulations. We know States will spend their money differently, and that’s okay. In fact, that’s what we hope they do. They know best how to serve their students."
- Average High School Start Time
- "Even the NCAA acknowledges now that federal legislation is necessary."
- 2019 K-12 teacher donations to campaigns
- Podcast: A State Leader's Vision for Higher Ed
- Default Rates
- "When girls are educated and empowered, we uplift communities and families, reduce poverty, and create a safer and more prosperous world."
- NSBAC Polling: School Funding
- "I think there’s a middle ground where you can’t just say America is nothing and everybody run off and do your own thing. It's important to have a common cultural context and even—and this will be very controversial—a common language of expression."
- "There are 37 states that have what's called a Blaine Amendment, which essentially was a bigoted action against Catholic schools in the 1800s."
- Homeless Students
- “For many children, the food they eat at school is their only access to healthy, nutritious meals.”
- Teacher Prep for Reading
- Podcast: Transparency and Projected College Closings
- "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."
- 2020 Voices From the Classroom
- "We all believe in innovation. But that has to be done with educators, not to educators. And that's one of many reasons why for-profit charter schools have no place in the future of American education."
- "Our country's experiment with debt-financed education went terribly wrong."
- State of DC Schools
- "I don't think subsidizing the children of millionaires and billionaires to pay absolutely zero in tuition at public college is the best use of those scarce taxpayer dollars."
- Podcast: What’s Ahead for Higher Ed in 2020?
- Graduate Loans
- Teachers in the current Congress
- "We don't have the right to be called professionals—and we will never convince the public that we are—unless we are prepared honestly to decide what constitutes competence in our profession and what constitutes incompetence and apply those definitions to ourselves and our colleagues."
- "We have come to take democracy for granted, and civic education has fallen by the wayside."
- Gender Equity in Education
- "I have a plan, as a Special Ed teacher, to fully fund IDEA."
- "I don't mean a coffee mug that you buy someone at the holidays. You pay them money ... so that they can support their family and still be able to teach in public schools."
- SEL in State Standards
- "We have to massively increase what we pay teachers in this country."
- Postsecondary Enrollment
- "I think most of us here want justice for these taxpayers that happen to be borrowers, for them to receive the relief that they need to receive."
- Student-to-Counselor Ratio
- "We cannot tolerate fraud in higher education, nor can we tolerate furiously giving away taxpayer money to those who have submitted a false claim or aren't eligible for relief."
- Teacher Preparation Program Enrollment
- "Students must be responsible consumers of education, seriously committed to their own success."
- "We must give America's students the freedom to learn and grow in the ways and places that work best for them."
- "We want to ensure federal dollars have the maximum positive impact on the students and communities that need it most."
- Default Rate by Race
- Kid's Priorities
- "Some communities are perfectly comfortable with having their teachers and school staff trained and armed so they can protect people in their buildings. Other communities are adamantly opposed to the idea. That is okay."
- "Studies have shown that two-thirds of our kids' educational outcomes are determined by what's happening to them at home."
- Podcast: Community College Innovation
- Working College Students
- DC School Lottery
- "The conservative case that I'm building, or hope to be building here, is that we must stop making unlimited amounts of money available through loans."
- Suspensions
- "For many of us who have DACA, it's been two years of waiting this out."
- Cost per student
- "I didn’t want to have another fire throw a wrench in my academic work."
- Podcast: The Real Story of Student Success
- "To our educators, this is your victory."
- Per Pupil Funding
- "Obviously, we shouldn't be telling [students] how to vote or who to vote for. We just want them to vote, period—to take that first step toward making voting a lifelong habit."
- 2019 NAEP
- "We rejected the idea that one-size-fits-all solutions make sense in a world where education needs continue to evolve in our dynamic economy."
- "This country is in a student achievement crisis, and over the past decade it has continued to worsen, especially for our most vulnerable students."
- "The same tired idea of throwing more money into the existing system and hoping that this time things will be different is the very definition of insanity."
- Religious-Based Hate Crimes
- School Nurses
- "It's simple, we need more people of color in these rooms making decisions."
- Podcast: Game of Loans
- Average Debt at Graduation, 2015-2016
- "Who do they think is actually going to pay for these? It's going to be two of the three Americans that aren't going to college paying for the one out of three that do."
- Unequal Earnings for Workers with Good Jobs
- "People who are getting crushed by student loans are in a fight today."
- "By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn."
- The Geography of Risk: Skipping School Vaccinations
- "Instead of promoting unworkable partisan bills, we ought to work together to support students' access to affordable postsecondary education that will prepare them to enter the workforce with the skills they need for lifelong success."
- "We do not believe the U.S. has the high-skill talent it needs, nor does it have the capacity to train enough people with those skills."
- Charter School Polling
- “School is where students are first learning how to do the work of citizenship."
- Fall 2009 Community College Cohort
- "The best the next secretary could do, regardless of where she comes from, would be to assemble a broad-based panel of actual public school teachers, consult them regularly, and listen to them."
- Podcast: A Governor Goes to College
- "That's why now is the time to do something different. Something better. Embrace the thing that makes America great: Freedom."
- View of the Department of Education
- "The rich diversity at Harvard and other colleges and universities and the benefits that flow from that diversity will foster the tolerance, acceptance and understanding that will ultimately make race conscious admissions obsolete."
- High School Graduates
- “This PSA is a gut punch, it’s uncomfortable, it’s hard to watch, but you can’t sanitize a school shooting.”
- Podcast: Choosing College
- 2019 SAT
- America is on the 'verge of making education great again.'
- EdNext Poll 2019: Charter Schools
- "At times the new progressivism, for all its up-to-the-minuteness, carries a whiff of the 17th century, with heresy hunts and denunciations of sin and displays of self-mortification. The atmosphere of mental constriction in progressive milieus, the self-censorship and fear of public shaming, the intolerance of dissent—these are qualities of an illiberal politics."
- Podcast: A New Season of FutureU
- "Strategies like investing in our children work. I'm tired of us thinking about these problems isolated from these other issues."
- Ivy League Demographics
- Back to College
- School District Secessions
- "The Trump administration is sending an alarming message: Schools can cheat [their] student borrowers and still reap the rewards of federal student aid."
- "I tell parents you are my partner in your child's education. You pass the baton to me in morning, and I pass the baton back to you in the afternoon."
- 2017-18 Principal Demographics
- "A $30,000 debt for a graduate degree in education is a much weightier debt than probably a $50,000 debt for law school.”
- Screening Students for Emotional Distress
- Academic Interventions
- Public K-12 Demographics
- "This legislation ensures that teachers will never have the burden of choosing between protecting their students or themselves from a violent shooter.”
- AP, IB and Dual Enrollment Course Credit
- "Equal is not equal."
- "Right now, families are worried to the point that some people are questioning whether or not they should fill out basic school district forms."
- Corporal Punishment in U.S. Schools
- "Our system of education today is reinforcing that income inequality, not liberating people from it. Because the best predictor of the quality of the education you get is your parent's income."
- "No student in this country should have to sacrifice their own health to get an education."
- GI Bill Spending
- "The schoolroom is the first opportunity most citizens have to experience the power of government."
- “We need to start dealing with the trauma that our kids have. We need trauma-based care in every school. We need social-emotional learning in every school.”
- Moonlighting Teachers
- “Education reform isn’t a cure-all. As a supporter of education reform, I agree that fixing educational inequality requires doing more to address the broader, systemic sources of economic inequality."
- "Our teachers, not unlike teachers elsewhere, feel as though we don't value their profession. There's a message there I think we need to think about."
- Private Schools by the Numbers
- "I like 'education freedom' because it opens up our thinking about what education can be."
- "Teaching is really hard, It's about as close to rocket science as I think you can get."
- Why Teachers Teach
- "If you're a jazz musician, you need to know your scales. If you're an artist, you need to draw a still life. It's the same with teachers."
- High School Graduation Rates
- Chronic Absenteeism and Engagement
- "There are very good public schools and very bad public schools. There are very good charter schools and very bad charter schools. The goal should be to make more schools high-quality and effective ."
- “We decided and recognized that trying to swim under that tsunami of choice would only bring about our own demise. If we decided to outrun it, we would lose."
- African American Students and Their Teachers
- "When I watched progressives and Glenn Beck join hands in opposition to Common Core, I said, 'Whoa, we've built a coalition.' I had not intended to build that coalition."
- Educators shouldn’t have to fight so hard for resources and respect.
- "People are actually asking a question I never thought I'd hear, 'Is going to college a reliable path to economic opportunity?'"
- 3rd Grade Readers in Mississippi
- Podcast: Future U Mailbag
- Who Goes to College?
- "We can’t sit on our hands and ignore the disparities of wealth reflected in the SAT.”
- Born to Win, Schooled to Lose
- "Let's get a person with real teaching experience. A person who understands how low pay, tattered textbooks, and crumbling classrooms hurt students and educators."
- "Teachers don't need guns. They need a raise."
- Democratic Support for Charter Schools
- Podcast: Will MOOCs Transform Higher Ed After All?
- "I don't enjoy the publicity that comes with my position. I don't love being up on stage or on any kind of platform. I'm an introvert."
- "We really shouldn't expect or rely on our young people's ability on their own to Google their way to good sexual and reproductive health."
- "We are advocating for more freedom in education — for parents and students to be able to take much more control of their education."
- Special Education in Public Schools
- "Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
- Podcast: Credentials vs. Degrees: How Much Clout?
- Undocumented Immigrants and Graduation
- Is Free College Best for Helping Low-Income Students?
- "We are significantly concerned that big-city students would face horrific consequences from adding a citizenship question to the Census. "
- Climate Change and Teachers
- “The enormous student debt burden weighing down our economy isn’t the result of laziness or irresponsibility.”
- Podcast: The Financial Aid Letters Mess
- Bad Bets for College Loans
- "I remain concerned that many state [ESSA] plans fall short and risk continuing or even exacerbating inequalities for disadvantaged students."
- State Report Cards
- Sex Ed in Schools
- "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
- Podcast: How Much Does the SAT Matter?
- Race Relations and College Presidents
- Parents and College Admissions
- “We spend an awful lot of time, energy and money being reactive to school safety. The pivot that needs to take place is how to be proactive.”
- Where College is Already Free
- "We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results."
- Persistence in College
- "Conservatives don't like it when judges try to write laws, and conservatives should not like it when legislators and agencies try to rewrite the Constitution."
- Who's Applying for Charter Schools?
- I believe in the promise education provides as an equalizer and as a means of increasing social mobility.
- "This is an extreme illustration of a reality in our higher education system: Students from wealthy families and students from poor families are not treated equally."
- "We educate women because it is smart. We educate women because it changes the world."
- Carrying Guns in School
- Teacher Protests and Spending
- Podcast: Guard Rails, Government and Higher Ed
- "We still have a significant opportunity to take a big step in the right direction, and to make a significant down payment toward providing real opportunities for future students.”
- Passing Rates for Elementary Teachers
- Homeless Students
- "Let’s speak truth: We’re a society that pretends to care about education, but not so much the education of other people’s children."
- “Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled."
- Podcast: Delivering Competency-Based Learning Online
- "Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
- "Knowledge—that is, education in its true sense—is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders."
- Who's Using SEL Curriculum?
- "I cannot ever stand up and stand against a parent having options, because I've benefited from my parents having options."
- High School Attitudes
- "The single, quickest, best way to make college more affordable to poor students is to simplify the FAFSA."
- Podcast: The Survival of Small Private Colleges
- "Low standards and low expectations tell students that we don’t have hope for them. That we don’t believe in them. But we do."
- Options for Gun Safety
- “Every day across districts in America, students and educators attend schools that are either unsafe or lack basic resources, or both, and this is simply unacceptable.”
- Immigration and Education
- Giving Districts Guidance on 'Supplement, Not Supplant'
- Measuring Student Growth
- "Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
- Podcast: The Eroding Partnership Between Higher Ed and the Public
- "There have never been bridges for our low-income and black students to good jobs.”
- "We're in a battle for the soul of public education."
- Lead in School Water
- A Progressive Manifesto on Social-Emotional Learning
- Growing Great Teachers: Lessons for School System Leaders
- Podcast: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on the Future of Higher Ed
- Students on SNAP
- Can Bonuses for Teachers Influence Student Success?
- Progress in Graduation Rates
- "A good curriculum doesn't micromanage the minute-to-minute actions of teachers; it challenges them to think."
- Parsing the Plan to Expand D.C.'s Voucher Program
- "The question of whether money matters is separate from whether money can matter more if we spend it better."
- Podcast: Universities Wade Into Bootcamp Territory
- “Studies have consistently found harsh exclusionary discipline and physical punishments are associated with negative long-term outcomes.”
- Parent Perceptions vs. Reality
- "Do we really need more white bread in our schools?”
- Spending on Schools
- The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
- "Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education."
- Podcast: What the Harvard Admissions Case Means for Higher Education
- Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion
- Teens and Social Media
- "The first responders to poverty are our teachers."
- American Honor Roll
- "Nothing is free. Someone, somewhere ultimately pays the bills."
- Podcast: The Robots Are Coming
- Why Students Choose Colleges
- Motivation and Engagement in Student Assignments
- From Tinkering to Going “Rogue”: How Principals Use Agency When Enacting New Teacher Evaluation Systems
- "Which is more predictive of how much you will earn, someone who gets along well with their peers or someone who scores very high on a math test?"
- Podcast: What Student Loan Default Rates Really Mean
- The Election and the Education Committees
- Podcast: The Future of Work and What It Means for Higher Ed
- The Low Wages of Childcare Workers
- African-American College Students
- “I don’t think what teachers want is to put their feet up while kids are each on a private learning journey.”
- Equality in America won't come until we have equality of educational opportunity."
- College Persistence, Graduation, and 9th Grade in Chicago
- Reaching A Postsecondary Attainment Goal: A Multistate Overview
- How Should States Weight Funding for Disadvantaged Students?
- "My most difficult meetings are not with unions and school boards, they're with publishers."
- Making a Difference: 6 Places Where Teacher Evaluation Systems are Getting Results
- Podcast: Online Education and the University
- "Abandoning truth creates confusion. Confusion leads to censorship. And censorship inevitably invites chaos on campuses, and elsewhere."
- 9th Grade College Aspirations
- "There is a disconnect between what teachers aspire to, what they say is good professional practice, and what is actually happening in the classroom."
- Rethinking the Structure of Teacher Retirement Benefits
- The Effects of Universal Preschool on Washington, D.C.
- Higher Education Spending
- Elevating Teaching and Learning in Tennessee
- "I didn’t do a great job early on in engaging our educators in New Mexico in meaningful, professional opportunities.... Since then, New Mexico has become well-known for its teacher initiatives which are all about professional engagement, opportunity, and growth. I am proud of that. It took too long to get there."
- Podcast: Season II of Future U
- Grade Inflation in High Schools
- Marriage Status by Educational Attainment
- The Educators’ Case for Preserving Medicaid
- "It is incredibly important to police equitable access [to choice schools]. But I also think that giving parents some significant say, that their economic circumstances do not afford them, in what they think is best for their child, is a value that has driven improvements system-wide."
- Another Piece of the School Choice Puzzle: Vaccinations
- "The Every Student Succeeds Act put states back in the driver's seat for decisions on how to help their students, and I am eager to see what this new chapter holds for our nation's students,"
- Digital Access at Home
- “When you put the responsibility on parents to make good choices, it rarely works.”
- Support for Free College
- Podcast: Higher Ed’s Role in Shaping the U.S. Workforce
- Podcast: Higher Ed Trends for Adult Learners
- Do Students Benefit from Longer School Days?
- "If you continue to defund the profession, teachers are going to leave, or are not going to make it. This is a real turning point at a critical time for public schools and for public education, and our members know it."
- Laptops in the Classroom: An Open and Closed Case
- "Let me be clear: I have no intention of taking any action concerning the purchase of firearms or firearms training for school staff under the ESEA."
- Podcast: Lifelong Learning and Higher Ed
- "What is the advantage in a low-income area of sending a child to a failed school and that being your only choice?”
- Podcast: Demographics & Demand for Higher Education
- Public Perception of Teachers' Pay
- “Congress doesn’t think this is a good idea. Parents don’t think this is a good idea. Teachers don’t think this is a good idea. Only Betsy DeVos and the gun industry want this."
- Beyond the Border: Serving English Language Learners
- Parent Views on School Safety
- Leaving School Early
- "What it ultimately comes down to is that someone cares about their future. We want the next great police officer, the next great politician, the next great doctor, the next great nurse, the next great musician."
- School-aged Children and Medicaid
- "We are in the business of educating children, no matter where they came from or how they got here."
- Podcast: Big Changes for For-Profit Colleges
- Helping Struggling Job Seekers Via Online Marketplaces
- How Will Reversal of Diversity Guidance Affect Higher Ed?
- Support for Higher Education
- Podcast: The Impact Of Helicopter Parenting
- Head Start And Public School Spending
- "I don't look at what people say, I look at actions and policies. I look at their budgets. And our values don't reflect that we care about education, teachers or that we truly care about keeping our children safe and free of fear."
- Podcast: Public Universities in the 21st Century
- "Do we need to be spending money on giving [a] random group of privileged high school students a world-class running track? No. That's crazy. But do we need to be spending money in order to expand educational opportunities for kids who otherwise wouldn't have them? Absolutely,"
- College Faculty and Tenure
- Podcast: Is Innovation Cultural or Strategic?
- Podcast: Are There Unicorns in EdTech?
- "When a child who could be taught to read goes untaught, the child suffers a lasting injury—and so does society."
- Private school enrollment
- Podcast: Innovation in Continuing Education
- "It’s incredibly powerful that in the capital of the Confederacy, where we had a school named for an individual who fought to maintain slavery, that now we’re renaming that school after the first black president."
- Who Finishes College?
- Podcast: A Teacher-Centric Approach to School Reform
- Does Attendance in Private Schools Predict Student Outcomes at 15?
- Podcast: The Future of Small Colleges
- Podcast: What Do People Think of Their College Experience?
- Podcast: University Mindsets Toward Education
- Learning How to Measure Social and Emotional Learning
- How Bonuses Affect Teacher Staffing and Student Achievement
- "Research shows the benefits of diversity for all students."
- Preschool Participation
- "Across the country, the relationships of public employees and employers will alter in both predictable and wholly unexpected ways."
- Stronger Mentors Produce Stronger Teachers
- Teacher Opinions on Unions
- "College wasn't meant to do alone."
- College Completion by Race
- "The Department of Labor is no more equipped to oversee elementary education policy than the Department of Education is prepared to enforce standards for coal mine safety. The logic behind this proposal is painfully thin."
- The Power of Parental Perceptions
- School Closings in Chicago: Experiences and Outcomes
- GPA Matters More for College Completion
- "We will continue to stress the importance of attendance because every day counts."
- Who Spends the Most Per Student?
- How Does School Accountability Affect Teachers?
- Podcast: Welcome to Future U
- “School is a sacrosanct place for students to be able to learn, and they should be protected."
- Heat and Learning: The Ultimate School Climate Issue
- "If we’re going to get serious about closing the achievement gap, we have to start at the beginning.”
- An Important Piece of the Student Motivation Puzzle
- College Credit in High School: Doing the Math on Costs
- Consolidating Without Merging: A New Option for Higher Ed
- Charter School Enrollment Boom
- Paper vs. Online Testing: What's the Impact on Test Scores?
- "I shouldn't be going through this. It's my school. This is my daily life. I shouldn't have to feel like that, and I feel scared to even go back."
- The Price of College
- "I would say we are a nation of laws, and we are a compassionate people."
- Diverse-by-Design Charter Schools
- Teacher Spending on Supplies
- "For years now, our schools have been suffering death by a thousand paper cuts, and it’s long past time we right this wrong."
- Ending Teacher Shortages with Network Mapping
- "Students are suffering because of an absence of vision, a failure of will and politics that values opposition over progress."
- "Even the best teacher can’t succeed with students who are not in class."
- The Impact of Democracy Prep on Civic Participation
- High Schools Offering Calculus
- "This raise is earned, and it is deserved. Everyone can name the teachers who made a positive impact on their lives."
- Graduation Scandal Shouldn't Overshadow DCPS Reforms
- NAEP Score Increases
- "No one indicator is the silver bullet in education.”
- Reducing Chronic Absenteeism Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
- "Conjunction Junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses."
- Suspensions by Race
- Community College Students and Poverty
- "If you can't read, you can't do anything."
- Growth in public school enrollment
- Teacher Absenteeism, Substitute Shortages, and Student Achievement
- Are There Hidden Costs Associated with Conducting Layoffs?
- How Schools Can Help Expand Health Coverage for Children
- Want to Make School a Safer Place? Stop Paddling Students
- "Education cuts do not heal."
- Legacy Students at Harvard
- Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice
- Let's Not Miss the Opportunity In Weighted Student Funding Pilot
- More Security in Schools
- "More glue guns, fewer handguns.”
- "I think it would be important to visit some poor performing schools, I think the question is: will they let me in?"
- "It strains credibility to suggest that schools cannot be made safer unless states and districts can employ racially discriminatory discipline policies and practices."
- Closing the Latino Leadership Gap
- "It certainly was hard to watch, but more concerning are the policies of this administration, their unwillingness to protect student civil rights, their unwillingness to invest in public education, their unwillingness to do what's necessary to make our schools safer from gun violence."
- "If we wanted to dictate from D.C., I'd claim the mantle of our nation's 'choice chief' and reject plans because they don't give parents more quality choices. But I haven't done that. And I won't."
- Mental Health in High School: The Teacher's Perspective
- "Lyndon Johnson understood that you can’t deal with education without dealing with poverty, and you can’t deal with poverty without dealing with race."
- Pay Inequities Between Men and Women
- Accelerating Community College Graduation Rates
- Success of 1st Generational College Students
- Screening for the Strongest Teachers
- Leveraging Text Messages to Mitigate Chronic Absenteeism
- "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
- "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
- Superintendents Worry About School Budgets
- How Relationships and Context Shape Learning
- "We have many qualified, capable individuals waiting to come and contribute here, and they're just messing around up at that building on the Hill."
- How Can Schools Help Lift Health Barriers to Learning?
- How Children Learn and Develop in Context
- "A lot of where kids end up is already kind of baked in by the 3rd grade."
- The Teaching Gap's Troubling Consequences
- The Bigger Story Behind D.C.'s Graduation Scandal
- Closing the Latino Leadership Gap
- "Higher education must provide a return on investment for students and taxpayers. Right now, both are getting a raw deal."
- Getting Teachers On Board With Evaluations
- For Educators: More Lessons from the Gridiron
- "Maybe what students need is someone who doesn’t yet know all the things you ‘can’t do.’”
- Single Mothers in Higher Education
- Features of New Orleans Charter Schools Associated with Achievement Growth
- Reflections on Teacher Leaders: From a Pro Football Coach
- What Chile Teaches Us About School Vouchers
- How Do School Spending Cuts Affect Student Achievement?
- " I agree–and have always agreed–with President Trump on this: Common Core is a disaster. And at the U.S. Department of Education, Common Core is dead."
- School Districts with Large Charter Populations
- "To be ready for school and learning, you have to be healthy first."
- Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund
- California Must Set Ambitious Goals to Combat Chronic Absenteeism
- Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under ESSA
- Bob Hughes: From Equity Lawyer to Gates Strategist
- Latinos in U.S. Education
- “When public officials resist public disclosure of what they do, people should be skeptical of what they're trying to hide.”
- Successful Leaders for Successful Schools
- The State Education Agency in the Era of ESSA and Trump
- How One Ohio School District Is Beating the Odds
- "The easiest fix is to eliminate the 529 expansion.... Not doing so will affirm the worst caricature of Republicans and education — taking money from the poor to give to the rich."
- College Completion Rates
- An Economist's View on Tax Reform and Public Schools
- Investing in Teacher Leadership in New Mexico
- How a Loss of Trust in School Discipline Affects Racial and Ethnic Minority Students
- The Lasting Impact of Tulsa’s Pre-K Program
- What We Know—And Need to Know—About Private-School Choice
- Public Opinion of Colleges and Universities
- "I think that we can all do well to reflect on the things we say before we say them."
- 5 Myths About Critical Thinking
- State Education Spending Since 2008
- Student Performance and Teacher Prep: Traditional vs. Alternative
- Is it In the Contract? Variations in Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Why Net Neutrality Matters for K-12 Education
- "If the department is today ignoring the agreement we made in the law and just choosing to implement whatever it feels like...then this committee needs to hear from the secretary directly."
- Closures and Mergers Aren’t the Only Options for Struggling Colleges
- "I am committed to seeing ESSA implemented as it was written. I believe Secretary DeVos is doing just that—following the law in approval of state plans while encouraging states to use maximum flexibility afforded to them."
- "We'll take $200,000 of your money; in exchange, we'll train your children to hate your country...We'll make them unemployable by teaching them courses in zombie studies, underwater basket weaving and, my personal favorite, tree climbing."
- We Can Fix Chronic Absenteeism
- Who's Teaching at TFA?
- A Simple Way to Confront School Absences
- "We need to stop forcing kids into believing a traditional four-year degree is the only pathway to success."
- Preschool Suspensions
- The Power of Fully Supporting Community College Students
- “Fitting In” and Rising Graduation Rates at UT Austin
- Overcoming the Stigma of Voc Ed In Today's CTE
- "I think I was undercoached. The transition group was very circumspect about how much information they gave me about then-current policy and … it was in their view a balance between being prepared for a confirmation hearing and not having well-formed opinions on what should or shouldn’t change."
- Can Hot Wheels Change the Way We Teach STEM?
- Latinos in U.S. Schools
- For Teachers: The Most Powerful Question
- "For students of color, disparities in educational opportunity and achievement are inextricably linked to our nation’s continued struggle to grapple with issues of race and bias."
- Making College Work: Nudging Student Behavior
- Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Piloting a New Way to Fund Schools
- New schools chiefs since ESSA
- Developing Community Schools at Scale
- "The mission of schools and teachers is to develop an understanding of all that is true, good and beautiful."
- "An A in Louisiana should be an A in any state in this country."
- "I know if Washington tries to mandate 'choice,' all we'll end up with is a mountain of mediocrity, a surge of spending and a bloat of bureaucracy to go along with it."
- "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."
- Enemies, Idiots, and Outcomes in the Charter World
- 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."
- 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."
- Public Support for Charter Schools
- 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
- 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
- Some New Teacher Evaluation Systems Do Make a Difference
- 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."
- A New Era for the Battle Over Teacher Evaluations
- 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."
- DeVos Decoded: Who, What, When and Where
- "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
- 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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