student achievement

While partisan politics has once again dominated the headlines this election season, the real stories lie with the thousands of newly-elected local officia

We’re in the midst of a back-to-school season like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised lots of questions about how to safely and effectively keep ki

The National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP)—nicknamed “America’s Report Card”—released their 12th grade scores at the end of October.  The horrif

Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings on Zoom. Many of us assumed this was a short-term s

With all the ruckus around charter schools, it’s easy to forget they can’t be painted with a broad brush. Each state has its own charter school law, its ow

The week that it was Black History Month, I grabbed two assignments. One from a district that was serving mostly white kids, and they were reading the Lett

I smiled at the two little girls seated across the table in the school board conference room but only six-year-old Kayla, wriggling in her pink winter jack

This spring, as schools limped across the virtual learning finish line, the consensus on virtual learning amongst educators was that this form of schooling

For millions of K-12 students, the pandemic has led to unprecedented interruptions of critical education and services. Many students will continue to fall