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A couple of weeks ago, we published a piece on Money and Schools from blogger Dmitri Melhorn, below Ben Spielberg has written a response to criticisms of s

With state testing winding down and the school year coming to a close, now is the perfect time to re-examine the purpose and usefulness of tests in our sch

Recently, a prominent American citizen released a video urging the next president of the United States to spend one day teaching in a high-poverty school a

Conservatives argue that markets will solve social problems more efficiently and effectively than the public sector while liberals insist that markets leav

Growing up in Denver, my mother made me attend a summer reading program at a public library every year. And every year I endured being made fun of by my cl

I am a strong advocate for using student test scores to assess teacher quality and the most effective means to accomplish this are value added measures (VA

This is part one of a three-part series by Education Trust’s Karin Chenoweth on the remarkable turnaround of Artesia High School in Southern California. Re

I recently had dinner with two teachers who told me that in their combined 38 years of teaching they have had exactly three meaningful feedback sessions wi

One of my favorite articles makes me laugh and cringe. What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence describes the plight of top companies spending billio