Will the way American schools address student discipline change once Donald Trump becomes president? In an article for The 74, Mark Keierleber talks to many observers who expect Trump to reverse the Obama administration’s messaging on school discipline. As Keierleber explains In 2014, the Obama administration released guidelines calling on schools to rethink zero-toleranc...

In an article in last week’s Wall Street Journal, Clare Ansberry made the case for “Why Teens Need a Sense of Purpose.” She quotes William Damon of the Stanford Center on Adolescence who says that developing a sense of purpose is one of the most important but overlooked aspects of adolescent development. In this week’s episode, Paul Peterson talks with W...

The recent furor over District of Columbia high schools issuing dubious diplomas has prompted pundits to declare a decade’s worth of school reform in the nation’s capital a failure, a refrain repeated in the wake of a new revelation that Washington’s chancellor exploited his position to get his daughter into a highly sought-after school. But tying these problems to ...

John was an academic who risked exposure to the real world and a practitioner who used experience to inform theory. When I agreed to write an appreciation of John Chubb’s work, I had no idea how hard it would be to do him justice. Everyone knew John, who died last year at 61, as the coauthor, with Terry Moe, of “the voucher book.” That’s true but, as I learned, pitifully incomp...

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The recent explosion of computing capacity and speed, coupled with the rapidly-rising cost of higher education, have created a “perfect storm” in which traditional institutions are more keen to offer classes online than ever before and where demand for online higher education is high. Meanwhile, the 2006 decision by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to lift the “50 percent...

While education reformers were busy last week writing about what the election of Donald Trump would mean for education policy, Chalkbeat’s Elizabeth Green wrote about what the election results meant for education reformers. She speaks with some education refomers struggling with the question of which children reformers should be focused on helping. Several education leade...

/* custom css */ .tdi_2_002{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_d30{ vertical-align: baseline; } One year ago, concern about Covid-19 closed schools nationwide, forcing then-U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to grant all 50 states an unprecedented one-year waiver on federal requi...

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