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- “When you put the responsibility on parents to make good choices, it rarely works.”
- Support for Free College
- Another Piece of the School Choice Puzzle: Student Vaccinations
- The Educators’ Case for Preserving Medicaid
- 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
- Mental Health in High School: The Teacher's Perspective
- "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
- Podcast: Higher Ed Trends for Adult Learners
- Podcast: Higher Ed’s Role in Shaping the U.S. Workforce
- 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."
- Districts Waiting for Guidance on 'Supplement, Not Supplant'
- Closing the Excellence Gap
- School-aged Children and Medicaid
- "We are in the business of educating children, no matter where they came from or how they got here."
- The Geography of Risk: Skipping School Vaccinations
- 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
- Where College is Already Free
- "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
- Parsing the Plan to Expand D.C.'s Voucher Program
- "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
- 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
- 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."
- "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
- 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
- How Should States Weight Funding for Disadvantaged Students?
- "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
- Teacher Absenteeism, Substitute Shortages, and Student Achievement
- What We Know—And Need to Know—About Private-School Choice
- College Credit in High School: Doing the Math on Costs
- 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
- Bob Hughes: From Equity Lawyer to Gates Strategist
- Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Is Free College Best for Helping Low-Income Students?
- 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."
- "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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