Category: P12

Many teachers talk of being “called” to the classroom, drawn by a force that latched itself to their very souls early on in school and held fast, as if no…

Ed Trust President and CEO John B. King Jr. visited Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Maryland on Friday morning to celebrate #CollegeSigningDay, an opportunity for graduating seniors to announce…

People who haven’t hung around schools much might be puzzled by the essential argument that I am making in my new book, Schools That Succeed, which is that schools should…

For many years I wrote a regular newspaper column about schools in Prince George’s County, Maryland. I noticed that one of the high schools had been recognized as having more…

UPDATED As state leaders work to implement the accountability provisions of the new Every Student Succeeds Act, they are making key decisions about how they will measure school performance, the…

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t think of public schools as the crucible of American democracy, founded to provide all children — independent of family circumstances — with…

This post first appeared on the PIE Network’s website, where they invited us and others to answer the question: Without ESSA regs, how do we leverage the law? School rating criteria that…

As a first-grade teacher in Chicago, I believe that every brain should have the opportunity to learn. I am confident that my colleagues, my students, and their parents believe the…

On one of her first days on the job, Betsy DeVos did what any U.S. Secretary of Education might do: She visited a public school. Such an event might have…