Teacher evaluation can make a difference — if done well, concludes a National Council on Teacher Quality study of Dallas, Denver, the...

In a New Orleans charter high’s first year, students beat the state school performance average, writes Matt Candler, a board member, on...

Teachers’ unions should adopt a kid-centric policy in response to the Janus decision, writes Paul Reville in Ed Week. Leaders will need...

Arne Duncan has written a book called How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s...

High-tech schools of the future end up looking a lot like schools of the past, writes Larry Cuban in Regression to the Mean, Part 1 and...

With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...

District of Columbia schools have improved more than schools in any other city (except maybe Chicago), writes Kate Walsh of the National...

Washington, D.C. public schools were held up as a model of “expert driven” education reform, writes Max C. Eden and Lindsey Burke on...

Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way...

Teach for America, founded in 1990 to challenge the educational status quo, has turned left, writes Sohrab Ahmari, a former TFA corps...

Backpack Full of Cash, an anti-charter documentary showing at film festivals, blames charter schools for taking funding from traditional...

John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform, offers a rosy and unachievable vision for public school change, writes Checker Finn. Merrow...

The 74 is running excerpts from the book. “Schools work better when their leaders have the autonomy to run their schools; when they are...

Education reformers should pay attention to the time demands of their reforms, writes Rick Hess in Education Next. “Every hour that’s...

The U.S. is making “silent progress” on education, argues Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality. She cites...

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund “whole-child...

District of Columbia Public Schools, “once among the nation’s worst,”  are now considered a good place to teach, writes Thomas Toch in...

The very controversial, take-no-prisoners education reformer  Michelle Rhee deserves credit for making big changes in Washington, D.C....

Growing up in a fragmented, fatherless family is the greatest barrier to success for students, argues Ian Rowe on Flypaper. “Racism and...

DeVos is “no threat to traditional schools, especially those beloved suburban schools that parents seek out,” writes Richard Whitmire in...