Month: August 2021

“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”: Why State Chiefs Should Do Both – by Ashley Jochim

In the ongoing debate about federal and state roles in K–12 public education, states got a leg up with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). It renounces the strong regulatory role that the federal government had come to play, in favor of a return to state control. Now that the federal government is out of the way, can the states really get anything done? In rec...

Take This Quiz: On School Choice, Are You a Libertarian or Do You Prefer a Nanny State? – by Michael J. Petrilli

Ever since our president-elect nominated school choice champion Betsy DeVos to be education secretary, there’s been a vigorous debate amongst us education nerds about the proper way to think about school choice. It’s a civil war! Another divide in the reform movement! Not so fast. Sure, there are disagreements on key policy design issues, but where we differ is dwarfed by our c...