When I sent my oldest child to school for the first time I wasn’t sure my wife and I had made the right choice. I mean we’re talking about pre-school here, so I get that the stakes seem pretty low,...
If Kentucky’s new education plan lives up to expectations, it’s going to get a lot easier to understand how public schools are doing in the state. That’s important because a clearer, more reliable...
One of the most important questions in education is: How will students and schools—district and chartered—be evaluated? While well intentioned, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s recent report, Three...
For the most part, what states measure for school quality has already been decided by federal law under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Every state, for example, has to track student test scores to...
Oh, the angst that could be prevented by a bit of accurate data. One of my neighbors recently posted to our community Facebook group lamenting about US News and World Report’s best high school...
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