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D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee seems to be dominating the media these days, and she’s making headlines again this week, gracing the cover of TIME Magazine. While there’s nothing glamorous about firing nearly 300 teachers and principals, Rhee has made more changes within DCPS in one year than most could even dream about over several […] Read more »

(Sing to tune of 12 days of Christmas): During the second week of transition, Obama gave to thee: Four Berkeley lawyers, Three Clinton holdovers, Two union operatives, and a severely status quo team for DOE. All that talk about reform. We kept saying people are policy. A look at the latest education transition team members is telling on that score. Read more »

This country is great. We’ve just elected the first African-American president, who has brought tremendous pride to many communities, but especially to African-Americans. I’ve seen it myself across the color and political spectrums. It reminds us that you can have anything you want in America – unless you’re poor, that is. Nowhere is this more […] Read more »

If public charter schools are really so bad, then why are tens of thousands of Texas students standing in line for admission? Read more »

NEA President Reg Weaver commits "the 3.2 million members of the National Education Association [to be] organized, energized and mobilized to help elect Barack Obama."

On behalf of the NEA's one million Republican members, Larry Sand strenuously objects.

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American students are flunking out internationally. Meanwhile, as education scholar and former Microsoft engineer Andrew Coulsen has observed, one of the last great innovations in American education happened around 1801 during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson: the invention of the chalkboard. Therein lies the problem. Read more »

The case has been frequently (and justly) made that the unions are anti-student because of their adamant positions on school choice, charter schools and teacher tenure. However, I contend that the unions are not only anti-student, they are all too often anti-teacher. Read more »

"Families That Can," the first-ever statewide advocacy organization for charter school families, has taken on LAUSD for its disparate treatment of their children. Instead of balancing the budget on the backs of charter-school students, California politicians should back up parents' educational choices. Enforcing the law would be a good place to start. Read more »

Elected officials are now fighting back against powerful opponents of parental choice in education. If lawmakers keep up the fight, schoolchildren will benefit and California may yet restore its status as a national leader. Read more »

There are more than 12,000 families on waiting lists to enroll their children in one of Chicago’s charter schools, and in a recent poll, 25 percent of Illinois families specifically listed charter schools as their first choice in education.... Unfortunately, charter schools face an arbitrary glass ceiling and will be unable to reach new heights unless state law is changed. Read more »