Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, recently spoke with journalist Lenora Chu about Chu’s new book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve (HarperCollins). Chu and her family currently live in Shanghai, where her son, Rainey, attends local schools—part of a Chinese education system that is renowne...

New data from researchers at Stanford allows us to see where students are making the largest gains from year to year. And an interactive graphic created by the New York Times lets readers click on individual school districts to see how they are doing. Emily Badgers and Kevin Quealy explain:  It’s true that children in prosperous districts tend to test well, while children in po...

A student from the Cristo Rey Network’s Arrupe Jesuit High School in Denver participates in the network’s innovative Corporate Work Study Program to gain real world work experience at the law firm Snell & Willmer LLP.(Photo Courtesy Cristo Rey Network) Over the last 50 years, thousands of Catholic schools have closed, most in low-income urban neighborhoods. Many of the rema...

When it comes to education reform, Asians don’t exist. Nobody talks about them. Not policymakers, national advocacy groups or funders. For decades, the education world has stereotyped Asians as a “model minority” and left them out of the education dialogue. For most ed. reformers, Asians aren’t even an afterthought. With the rapid expansion of the Asian and Pacific Islander (AP...

Usually, we claim to have little use for people who are all talk. We mock second-guessers and those Monday-morning quarterbacks who tell others what they should have done. Like most people I know, I’ve always been most impressed by those who do things. Build things. Repair things. Whether we’re talking about fixing a car or teaching algebra, what matters is taking ...

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I recently caught up with Mary Ann Wolf, PhD, Elizabeth Bobst and Nancy Mangum to discuss some of the key takeaways of their new book, Leading Personalized and Digital Learning: A Framework for Implementing School Change. The authors offer guidance for principals and other school leaders who are aiming to leverage the power of technology to help make student-centered learning ...

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