State Policy
The Challenge of Taking Attendance in Remote Learning
This piece ran as a commentary in The 74. In suburban Detroit, a teenage girl was…
A Debate on School Reopening Plays Out on Twitter
The reopening of schools and the wearing of masks have dominated the national coronavirus debate…
Don’t Abandon Standardized Testing Next Year; Rethink It
This appeared as a commentary piece in The Hill. Not surprisingly, the nation’s 13,300…
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…