The influence of new philanthropy on democracy
How Congress flunked basic Schoolhouse Rock lesson
Good student Laela Gray held back over 1 point on test
This story offers a perfect illustration of what "high stakes" standardized testing means.
The civics test native Americans flunked — but immigrants passed
The government shutdown is a good opportunity to revisit America's civic literacy.
The failures of for-profit K-12 schools
Case study: The false promise of value-added teacher assessment
Will value-added do as little for the nation as it did for Tennessee?
Stop blaming James Madison for the shutdown
Diane Ravitch: Q&A on her controversial new book
Ravitch talks about why she wrote 'Reign of Error," what she learned writing it, and what what she thinks about being called "mean" by her critics.
Who’s minding the people who are supposed to be minding the schools?
The ‘grand illusion’ in reading
KKK asks panel to keep school named after ‘grand wizard’ of white-supremacist group
Duncan’s unusual ‘state of education’ report
How to be a college ‘resimuter’
One great shutdown tweet
It will take two seconds to read.
589 days with no elected government: What happened in Belgium
There was a caretaker government of sorts.
Fewer people view college education as part of ‘American Dream’
‘Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress…’
Now it’s the principals’ fault
GOP’s three lessons for kids
Veteran teacher: The key failing of school reform over decades
How government shutdown will affect public schools (update)
Is professor’s #NRA tweet a firing offense or protected speech?
University of Kansas academic was put on leave. Here's why.