Education Reform
Learn more about efforts to improve schools, especially through policy changes
States
Opinion
How Jeb Bush’s ExcelinEd Is Tackling the Next 5 Years
Rick Hess talks with ExcelinEd CEO Patricia Levesque about the organization's goals to improve education after the pandemic and beyond.
Policy & Politics
Opinion
Remembering Harvard’s Richard Elmore
Rick Hess pays tribute to the late Richard Elmore, education policy icon and longtime professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Federal
Opinion
What Conservatives Should Be for When It Comes to Education
Education is ultimately about opportunity, community, and empowerment, and nothing should resonate more deeply with the conservative heart.
School & District Management
Opinion
Sure, Envision a New Public School System. But Don't Ignore the Emergency at Hand
As we work to address the centuries of injustice in education, families need short-term solutions as well, writes Michael J. Feuer.
Teaching Profession
Letter to the Editor
Education Is Not Scalable
To the Editor:
I enjoyed the video of Diane Ravitch (“Diane Ravitch in Her Own Words,” Education Week Video, April 10, 2020), a historian who has modified her perspective about education through the years. I’d like to broaden her perspective yet again.
I enjoyed the video of Diane Ravitch (“Diane Ravitch in Her Own Words,” Education Week Video, April 10, 2020), a historian who has modified her perspective about education through the years. I’d like to broaden her perspective yet again.
School & District Management
Opinion
Teachers, We Cannot Go Back to the Way Things Were
Injustice in our education system was normalized before the pandemic, writes Bettina L. Love. Now is the time to dream for a better future.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
The Coronavirus Just Might End School Privatization Nonsense
The pandemic has boosted appreciation for public schools; the next step is greater funding, argues education historian and activist Diane Ravitch.
School & District Management
Video
Diane Ravitch in Her Own Words
Diane Ravitch explains the evolution of her public education activism.
School & District Management
Opinion
Please, Someone, Name Your Favorite Education Decade
A few weeks back I penned a post remaking on the disappointing educational legacy of the 2010s. My good friend Christopher Ruszkowski has some interesting feedback that's worth sharing.
School & District Management
Opinion
What Ravitch and the Reformers Both Got Wrong
Longtime readers know that I agree with Diane Ravitch that contemporary school reform deserves to be harshly critiqued, but ultimately I found that her new book, "Slaying Goliath," offered more vitriol than vision.
States
Polarized Environment Shapes Policy Debates on Key K-12 Issues
How have private school choice and "right to work" laws driven political donations from teachers' unions and education reform groups? New research tries to answer that question, and finds some surprising results.
School & District Management
Opinion
Rejecting Personal Responsibility Is No Way to Promote Educational Equity
Fearing to tell students they're responsible for doing their part is to set them up for failure. And worse: It's the rankest kind of prejudice.
Assessment
Opinion
The Five Big Challenges Ahead for Advanced Placement
AP has managed to dodge the partisan pitfalls that have felled other ambitious curricular efforts—so far, write Chester E. Finn Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan.
School & District Management
Opinion
Are Students Customers or Just a Crop?
My customers were other administrators who had needs for data and computer applications and teachers who wanted to use microcomputers for instruction.