The influence of new philanthropy on democracy
Why the current era of private giving is different from in the past.
How Congress flunked basic Schoolhouse Rock lesson
The perversity of the government shutdown is 'is that people are hoping for the merely inefficient.'
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
Though there's plenty of money to be made out there in K-12 education, corporate failures have piled up.
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
A Madison expert explains.
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?
Two scandals, one on the East Coast and another on the West, prompt the question in the headline.
The ‘grand illusion’ in reading
How do people learn how to read?
KKK asks panel to keep school named after ‘grand wizard’ of white-supremacist group
School board to meet to discuss what to do with Nathan B. Forrest High School's name.
Duncan’s unusual ‘state of education’ report
He starts out by bashing his critics rather than talking up the work he is doing.
How to be a college ‘resimuter’
Here's what resimuters are and what they do.
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’
A new poll shows has some disturbing results about how Americans see the role of education in their lives.
‘Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress…’
Mark Twain and others on Congress.
Now it’s the principals’ fault
What new principal evaluations in D.C. schools really mean.
GOP’s three lessons for kids
How the Republicans pervert history.
Veteran teacher: The key failing of school reform over decades
Patrick Welsh details the main problem with four decades of school reform efforts that failed.
How government shutdown will affect public schools (update)
The consequences on schools, federal student aid programs, etc.
Is professor’s #NRA tweet a firing offense or protected speech?
University of Kansas academic was put on leave. Here's why.