State Policy
With an Influx of Covid Relief Funds, States Spend on Schools
This piece and interactive maps were published in The 74. Asked recently by the U.S.
Education in the 2021 State of the State Addresses
When governors delivered their State of the State addresses this winter — often via…
Don’t Abandon Standardized Testing; Rethink It
This appeared as a commentary piece in The Hill. Not surprisingly, the nation’s 13,300…
Kamala Harris’s Surprising Evolution on Truancy
Much has been written about Kamala Harris’s decision as San Francisco district attorney to threaten…
The Challenge of Taking Attendance in Remote Learning
This piece ran as a commentary in The 74. In suburban Detroit, a teenage girl was…
How Governors Are Using Their CARES Act Education Dollars
Back in March, when the coronavirus crisis first shuttered schools and universities, Congress dedicated some…
Public Health and the Safe Reopening of Schools
This piece was orginally published as a commentary in Politico. The unfolding complexity of school reopening…
A Debate on School Reopening Plays Out on Twitter
The reopening of schools and the wearing of masks have dominated the national coronavirus debate…
Tennessee’s School Voucher Law Gets What it Deserves
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a school voucher law, permitting some of the state’s students…
Inside Post-Covid Schools, Next Year and Beyond
Let’s not repeat the mistakes the education sector made in responding to the last major…
Podcast: How Tennessee is Improving Teaching & Learning
Nearly a decade ago, Tennessee embarked on an ambitious effort to strengthen teaching and learning from…
Scaling Reform: Tennessee’s Statewide Teacher Transformation
The federal Every Student Succeeds Act has placed authority for improving education squarely in states’…
How the Common Core Changed Standardized Testing
When the U.S. Department of Education awarded $350 million to two consortia of states in…