Young, diverse students standing in a school hallway with arms crossed.

2025 Is a Year for Hard Truths and Bold Solutions in Education

May we finally stop the academic and developmental bleed-out from the pandemic and start delivering what people want from our public education system.

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Balancing Act: The Intersection of Faith and Education in America’s Public Schools

Public schools can create an environment that encourages critical thinking and respect for diversity by finding a balance between the secular and the sacred.

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Students listening to their teacher.

Criminal Behavior Rises Among Those Left Behind by School Lotteries

A new study of public school choice in Charlotte, North Carolina, finds a deeply troubling consequence to this well-intended policy: increased crime.

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Photo by Yan Berthemy on Unsplash. School bus making its way through traffic.

New Group Strives to Make Public Education ‘Available to All’

The quality of the public education students receive is still dependent on the schools to which they have access.

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Not-Normal Times Call for Not-Normal Grades

Not-Normal Times Call for Not-Normal Grades

At 8:21 pm on Thursday, January 20th, my principal called me to confirm another positive COVID case in my homeroom. This marked our fourth transition to re

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Missouri Just Gave Me Back My Power to Choose the Best School for My Children

Missouri Just Gave Me Back My Power to Choose the Best School for My Children

As a single mother of four—three of them in school, and one in college—I’ve had to face my share of struggles. But some of the biggest struggles have come

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To Improve Our School District We Asked a Rabbi and Two Pastors

To Improve Our School District We Asked a Rabbi and Two Pastors

2022 arrived in America’s public schools not with a bang, but rather, a long and tired sigh.  Students need stable, high-quality schools more than ever, bu

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Chicago Isn’t the Only City Putting Politics Over Kids

The politics of education are broken and we are seeing the effects of it play out in real-time.  In Chicago, a stalemate over remote learning options and r

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More Than 330,000 of Chicago's Children Didn't Learn Today Because of CPS's Staggering Lack of Planning

More Than 330,000 of Chicago’s Children Didn’t Learn Today Because of CPS’s Staggering Lack of Planning

Once again, drama is flaring over Chicago Public Schools’ management of the pandemic. In the city of Chicago, more than 330,000 children are not learning t

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