equity

I’m just going to get straight to the point. In 2020—and beyond—we have to get education right for Black students and families. Point blank and period. I d

Research shows that, as early as preschool,  racial bias affects student learning. From a young age, we adults are treating children differently based on t

Where do Democratic candidates stand on public education? After last month’s Forum on Education, we know that the candidates are committed to increasing th

The promise of public education is that it prepares young people for life—and the commitments we have made to meet this aspiration have dramatically increa

WHAT WE GOT WRONG: The decade is coming to a close, but don’t expect the conversations and issues that were raised in the 2010s to be swept under the rug.

I’m a Sam Seaborn Democrat. As the idealistic West Wing character once said:  Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little

WHAT WE GOT WRONG: When I returned to Education Post in May, my charge was to help us clarify our vision and set us in a new direction. I thought a lot about what would be the cardinal question to help us stay focused on what matters most, and that question became the headline for my weekly communications: “How are the children?”

Around the country, schools that initially impress observers with high overall test scores often lose their luster upon closer examination, when inequities

WHAT WE GOT WRONG: Many years ago, back in 2014, when the world was young and American politics had not yet gone wholly off the rails, I launched a policy research team to focus on young English learners (ELs). “Around one in 10 American students is formally classified as a language learner, and almost one in four American children speaks a language other than English at home,” I wrote in a brief announcing the new effort.