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Minority students are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school. What does the research say about the consequences of exclusionary discipline policies and alternatives to it? In this episode of the Education Next podcast, Marty West talks with Matthew Steinberg, who is the co-author, with Joanna Lacoe, of “What Do We Know About School Discipline Reform?” T...

Calls for innovation in education seem to get louder by the day. “Innovation” has become the catchall term for the urge to make up for what our current system lacks; a system that, on balance, is neither delivering an equally high-quality education to all students, nor designed to reliably prepare young people for the modern workforce. From there, of course, opinions about wha...

A new Fordham Institute study, Charter School Boards in the Nation’s Capital, asks a simple but largely uninvestigated question: Do the characteristics, views, and practices of charter boards have any bearing on charter school quality? To answer this critical question, we enlisted two of Bellwether Education Partners’ savviest analysts, Juliet Squire and Allison Crean Da...

Last week, officials from the U.S. Department of Education met with critics of school discipline policies that were put in place under the Obama administration. In an article for the 74, Mark Keierleber describes the debate over those policies and considers the likelihood that they might be changed. A 2014 “Dear Colleague” guidance letter from the Obama administration’s Educat...

The Richmond School Board has hired Jason Kamras to be its next superintendent, WTVR reports. Kamras, who currently serves as the transitional chief of the Office of Equity for the D.C. Public Schools, has also served as chief of instructional practice and chief of human capital for DCPS. He started his teaching career with Teach for America, something he wrote about in an essa...

Bellwether Education Partners believes we need to think differently about school transportation. In this 3-minute video they explain what needs to change. For more information you can read their report on Bringing School Transportation into the 21st Century. — Education Next Source: EducationNext...

/* custom css */ .tdi_2_e47{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_774{ vertical-align: baseline; } Finding ways to increase the numbers of applicants and charter schools led by Black and Latino/a people is a critical area of inquiry. We need high-quality research that can help light a...