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Teaching Democracy: How One Sc...

Apr 11, 2019 by

Teaching Democracy: How One School Network Has Baked Civics & Activism Into Its DNA — and Produced Graduates Who Are More Likely to Vote

By Kevin Mahnken  – Can schools save our fractured nation? Backed by groundbreaking research, Democracy Prep is putting...

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Challenging Conventional Wisdo...

Mar 15, 2019 by

Challenging Conventional Wisdom, New Report Suggests Diversity of America’s Teaching Force Has Not Kept Pace With Population

Mark Keierleber – Brookings Institution This is the latest article in The 74’s ongoing ‘Big Picture’ series, bringing American...

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Race-Blind or Discriminatory?

Mar 11, 2019 by

Race-Blind or Discriminatory?

NYC’s Plan to Diversify Elite High Schools Becomes Latest Fodder for Advocates Seeking Supreme Court Rollback on Affirmative Action...

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Scores Show 850,000 High Schoo...

Feb 24, 2019 by

Scores Show 850,000 High School Juniors Are Ready for College.

Starting Early Could Save Them Time — and Money. New Report Asks: Why Make Them Wait? Education Reform Now This is the latest article...

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3 States Tried to Shutter Fail...

Feb 16, 2019 by

3 States Tried to Shutter Failing For-Profit Online Charter Schools.

A Suspicious Pattern of Allegations, Accusations, and Legal Complaints Quickly Followed Beth Hawkins – On their face, the...

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A New Push for Play-Based Lear...

Jan 22, 2019 by

A New Push for Play-Based Learning: Why Districts Say It’s Leading to More Engaged Students, Collaborative Classmates … and Better Grades

Kate Stringer – Photo courtesy Watertown City School District To learn the word “the,” Kristen Bauter’s kindergartners used to...

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Union Report: How Many Affilia...

Dec 6, 2018 by

Union Report: How Many Affiliates Can NEA Prop Up?

So Far, There Are 4 — and They Haven’t Always Been Good Bets for the National Union The National Education Association filed its...

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Without Standards and Accounta...

Nov 26, 2018 by

Without Standards and Accountability, There Can Be No Innovation, Personalization, Flexibility — or Education Reform

Sandy Kress – 11.26.18 – The 74 Million   “Kress: Without Standards and Accountability, There Can Be No Innovation,...

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Following Victory in Appeals C...

Nov 19, 2018 by

Following Victory in Appeals Court for DACA Recipients, Will SCOTUS Consider Fate of Dreamers?

By Mark Keierleber – When a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel last week rebuked the Trump administration’s efforts to end...

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Was the Year of the Teacher Po...

Nov 15, 2018 by

Was the Year of the Teacher Politician Just an NEA Concoction?

Last week, I expressed doubt that press outlets would revisit the assumptions made prior to the election about teacher candidates for...

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New ‘Redshirting’ Study Reveal...

Oct 29, 2018 by

New ‘Redshirting’ Study Reveals That Boys Are Held Back More Than Girls

It’s Actually Helping to Close an Achievement Gap Between the Genders National Bureau of Economic Research Academic “redshirting” —...

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When Families and Schools Work...

Oct 24, 2018 by

When Families and Schools Work Together, Students Do Better.

New Report Has 5 Ways of Engaging Parents in Their Kids’ Education In the 1990s, parents in a Central East Austin, Texas, school...

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Author of ‘The Fight for the B...

Oct 15, 2018 by

Author of ‘The Fight for the Best Charter Public Schools in the Nation’ Talks Confronting Hard Truths About Growing Massachusetts Charters

Cara Stillings Candal is a senior fellow at Boston’s Pioneer Institute and has spent the past 10 years studying and writing about...

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Integrating Schools by Income,...

Oct 11, 2018 by

Integrating Schools by Income, Not Race:

Why Cities Are Embracing ‘an Idea Whose Time Has Come’ By Kevin Mahnken – In the midst of politics and court battles, cities...

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78207: America’s Most Radical ...

Sep 27, 2018 by

78207: America’s Most Radical School Integration Experiment

By Beth Hawkins – In the nation’s most economically segregated city, an innovative new approach to school integration designed...

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Inside a Very Special Summer C...

Sep 24, 2018 by

Inside a Very Special Summer Camp for Young Burn Survivors — Where Every Kid Gets to Be a Kid for at Least One Week a Year

Andrew J. Rotherham – Keezletown, Virginia A raptor expert from the U.S. Forest Service is explaining to a group of summer...

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Study: Grade Inflation More Pr...

Sep 19, 2018 by

Study: Grade Inflation More Prevalent at Wealthy Schools, Where Parents Have Greater Ability to Game the System

By Kevin Mahnken – Fordham Institute This is the latest article in The 74’s ongoing ‘Big Picture’ series, bringing American...

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The War That Wasn’t: A Year Af...

Sep 13, 2018 by

The War That Wasn’t: A Year After Its Much-Hyped Launch, the NAACP’s Push for a Charter School Moratorium Has Run Out of Steam

Beth Hawkins – Social media, livestreams, and heated debates: Repeated calls for a moratorium on new charter schools were among...

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New Study: Suspending Students...

Aug 29, 2018 by

New Study: Suspending Students for Minor Infractions Like Cursing Hurts Kids but Benefits Nobody

By Mark Keierleber – Schools are increasingly suspending children for minor infractions like profanity, hurting their academic...

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Facing a ‘Really Big Issue,’ S...

Aug 24, 2018 by

Facing a ‘Really Big Issue,’ Senators Push for First Federal Survey of the Condition of U.S. Schools Since 1995

Carolyn Phenicie – Senators added language to the pending U.S. Education Department spending bill that would require the...

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