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…
Such is the level of political polarization in the nation that it’s now influencing where students want to attend college. A study by Riley Acton at Miami…
The U.S. Department of Education’s mission, as established by Congress, is to “strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational…
Though chronic absenteeism has declined from its post-COVID peak, too many students are still missing too much school. Research shows that absent students fall…
