student achievement

There seems to be an organized assault on charter schools. Legal challenges, bureaucratic barriers and smear campaigns all work to destroy their reputation

I’ve written about teacher accountability before, but I recently read a few things that got me thinking. The first was a report out of Los Angeles that sho

Let me tell you a tale of two schools. As the Georgia Teacher of the Year, I visit countless schools all across Georgia—observing instruction and meeting s

For decades now, the education community has stated that the majority of students who drop out of high school do so not because high school is too hard, bu

As a nation, we spend close to $600 billion per year on K-12 education, while allocating only $20 billion to childcare and educational supports for childre

I have always been extremely anxious about change. Sometimes that change would lead to various levels of panic, sometimes in public. And that panic would i

Raising two kids has taught me a lot about how to help children become their best selves. Four key themes have emerged in my years as a mother, and I belie

As a parent of a daughter with a disability, I feel like I am in a perpetual state of learning tips from the “experts.” Having a child with special needs m

Twenty-first century learning calls on adults in the classroom to move from a position of power to a position of empowerment. How and whether we empower al