Topic: Education Equity

WASHINGTON – The Education Trust is pleased to announce that Wil Del Pilar will join the advocacy group as its vice president of higher education policy and practice. In this…

Although the Every Student Succeeds Act leaves a lot of decisions about how to improve struggling schools to schools and districts, the law is quite clear that the strategies leaders…

On this day 52 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law. With his elementary school teacher, Katie Deadrich, by his side and…

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…

Roger Wilkins, who died at 85 Sunday morning, was everything the newspaper reports say he was: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a tenacious warrior in the fight for civil rights, a…

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…

“You know, there’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered. One place and that’s the graveyard.” I’ve been in the grip of that haunting opening…

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…