In a compelling recent blog post, Washington State’s new Teacher of the Year, warned that he won’t be taking positions on most of the hot policy topics of the day. He said he wants to use his new bully pulpit to talk about the only things that really matter: resource inequities and the need for more high-quality and diverse teachers.

A new report looks at how public education is delivering on the promise of educational opportunity in 50 mid- to large-sized cities in the United States.

A trio of new studies show that most online charter schools don’t work in their current context, but they don’t show that they can’t work.

With its ruling, the court has locked Washington State into a defunct, hundred-year-old notion of public schooling.

Districts are currently unwittingly hostile to school-level innovation. For that to change, they must aggressively work to change the incentives, policies, and structures so that they encourage and free up schools to innovate.

Improve accountability 
and oversight for district and charter schools

What the city needs is a portfolio manager for its schools.

Part of the forum: Should Charter Schools Enroll More Special Education Students?

Education Next talks with Robin J. Lake, Gary Miron, and Pedro A. Noguera

Can charter management organizations deliver quality education at scale?