This commentary is adapted from remarks delivered at the 2026 National Student Support Accelerator Conference at Stanford University. What is the most important…
Underneath the recent upheavals in American politics is a growing sense that the economic promise that the nation has long made to its citizens is increasingly…
Late last month, Education Secretary Linda McMahon celebrated what she called the Trump administration’s “unprecedented progress in reducing the federal…
This piece originally appeared in Washington Monthly. The state of American student achievement is alarming. Test scores have been declining in most states for…
There are moments in history when progress alters the landscape so fundamentally that it demands a pivot—not just in what we do, but in how we think about our…
There has been a lot of well-justified hand-wringing about President Donald Trump’s efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education. These moves have included…
As federal COVID relief funding for schools expired last year, education leaders worried that high-impact tutoring programs helping to drive academic recovery…
