From Overcoming to High-Achieving: A First-Generation STEM Star Tells How
By Carol J. Carter, July 21, 2015.Elise Tran has overcome many obstacles to make it to her sophomore year…
Education reform, with focus on accountability
By Chris Coons and Cory Booker, July 15, 2015.'What do you want to be when you grow up?" is…
Admiring the Problem, or Solving It
By Kati Haycock.In fall 2016, Jamillah will leave her Head Start classroom to begin kindergarten in a suburb of…
Senate proposal to rewrite No Child Left Behind falls miserably short
By The Washington Post Editorial Board, July 7, 2015.THE FEDERAL government each year gives states about $37 billion for…
Congress must not reverse course on education
By George Miller and Celine Coggins, July 6, 2015.This week, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S.…
How one West Michigan school district is closing reading gaps for poor, Hispanic students
By Pat Shellenbarger, June 30, 2015.When it came time to enroll their daughter in kindergarten, Jose and Maria Garcia…
Achievement and Opportunity in America: The Power of YOU in Charting a Different Path
Kati HaycockPresidentThe Education TrustVirginia Association of Secondary School PrincipalsRoanoke, Virginia …
Teachers Speak Up on Common Core
By Jessica Trufant, June 23, 2015.Negative reactions to the Common Core State Standards capture the headlines, but many teachers…
Participation in student testing essential in measuring achievement
Posted by Kari Parsons, Samantha Brauner, and Kari Primo-Liddy on June 21, 2015.We are Eugene parents whose children participated…
Civil Rights Groups Demand More Accountability in Senate ESEA Bill
Posted by Lauren Camera on June 18 2015.A coalition of civil rights groups is demanding that the U.S. Senate…
Don’t do away with school testing
Posted by the Editorial Board on June 8, 2015.COMPLAINTS ABOUT public school testing have been on the rise, centered…
US High School Graduation Rates Are Soaring, but Too Many Students of Color Are Still Being Left Behind
Posted by Alma J. Powell on June 8, 2015.American tradition: high school graduation. And today we have more cause…
‘I want to give my students access to the world’
Posted by Laurie Udesky on June 3, 2015.Lovelyn Marquez-Prueher is an 8th-grade English teacher at Dodson Middle School in…
‘Mr. Booth Needs to Stay’
I rarely saw my principals. When I was in third grade, Dr. Moss put iodine on my scraped knee,…
New Website for a New Test
Posted by Jacqueline Thomsen on June 2, 2015.The College Board and Khan Academy are today announcing a new partnership…
The Reinvention of Summer School
Posted by Sophie Quinton on May 27, 2015.School buses in Pittsburgh don't stop rolling in the summer. From late…
Selective High Schools Struggle to Diversify Enrollments
Posted by Caralee J. Adams on May 19, 2015.Test-based admissions policies keep low-income numbers lowTo make the competitive Pre-Collegiate…
American-Indian, low-income kids often struggle academically, but thrive at this U.P. school
Posted by Jennifer Guerra on May 20, 2015.We do a lot of stories about what’s not working in education,…