Chances are you will have a conversation about the state of American education this month. If so, that is a phenomenal accomplishment for the education reform movement (if not, you better get in the game!). Last year, less than 1 percent of all news stories covered education issues. But not this month. Education is having its moment in the national spotlight.
How did this happen? Bright spots of progress have produced real reasons for optimism. Twenty years of charter school investment has produced a cohort of high-performing operators, silencing any reasonable argument that a world-class education is not possible for all students, in all places. We have a federal administration that has focused on what works, replaced politics with pragmatism
