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On Monday, February 7, NPR’s 1A program looked at the future of school funding, with a focus on California’s latest efforts to equalize spending on schools.After a discussion of opposition to Betsy DeVos, EdNext’s Paul Peterson joined the con
For two decades now, American education reform has been obsessed with raising the performance of our lowest-achieving students. And it’s worked—national assessment results show huge gains for the country’s low-performing, low-income, and minori
Recent years have brought us important books on education reform in New York City, New Orleans, and Washington, DC, among other places. But for pure storytelling potential, Newark might have them all beat.Dale Russakoff’s new book, The Prize:
One of the few times conservatives have agreed with President Barack Obama is when he said that parents should “turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to their child.” Across the political spectrum, many of us parents worry about v
More than twenty years ago, Paul Hill wrote Reinventing Public Education, a landmark book that argued that school districts should get out of the business of running schools directly and contract with for-profit and non-profit providers instead
Not many education books debut as a New York Times bestseller, but The Teacher Wars, by Dana Goldstein, is not just any book. “A history of America’s most embattled profession,” it serves as a tonic to reformers who believe we’re the first ones
Laurence Steinberg is a developmental psychologist at Temple University who has spent the past four decades studying adolescence. Educators and the education policy community will be familiar with his work on topics including homework, extra-cu
With a 2010 New York Times Magazine cover story, “Building a Better Teacher,” 20-something journalist Elizabeth Green leapt to national prominence—as did the heroes of her article, Deborah Ball, the dean of the University of Michigan ed school,
Richard Whitmire is a former reporter and editorialist for USA Today, and the author of The Bee Eater (about Michelle Rhee) and Why Boys Fail. Now, in his latest book, On the Rocketship, he turns his attention to “how top charter schools are pu
Sam Chaltain is a former educator and writer who has spent his career focused on issues including the First Amendment, democratic schooling, and social and emotional learning.Now, in his latest book, Our School, he turns his attention to two b
We all know that there are other countries that are beating our pants academically. But why is that so? And what can we do to learn from, mimic, and catch up to them? Journalist Amanda Ripley found an ingenious way to answer those questions and
It’s not exactly news that America’s education system is mediocre and expensive in international comparison. What’s less well known is that our schools’ ineffectiveness and inefficiency could have big implications for the country’s economic gro
In 1998, Alan Bersin became one of the nation’s best known non-traditional superintendents, as this former U.S. District Attorney took over the San Diego Public Schools. He immediately recruited Tony Alvarado, a well-known and respected New Yor
Ever since Hurricane Katrina, the eyes of education reform proponents and opponents have been on New Orleans, site of one of the most dramatic public school overhauls in American history. Veteran journalist Sarah Carr has been there through the
Michelle Rhee is, without a doubt, America’s best known education reformer. Her new autobiography, Radical: Fighting to Put Students First, chronicles her upbringing as the daughter of Korean immigrants, her career trajectory from Teach For Ame
In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Mike Petrilli sits down with Tony Wagner to discuss his new book, Creating Innovators.Business leaders, pundits, and politicians all seem to agree: America needs to get much better at nurturing innovat
In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Andy Smarick explains to host Mike Petrilli that to make urban schools work, a shift must be made from having districts run schools to letting schools lead the charge in innovation. Smarick tackles this
For at least twenty-five years now, reformers in the United States and other developed countries have attempted a variety of strategies to ramp up the quality of teaching and learning. Yet little of it has had the desired effect. Tracking these
It’s not exactly news that America’s school systems are facing their greatest fiscal challenges since the Great Depression. For the first time in decades, real per pupil spending will decline this year, forcing school districts to make painful
Ever since ancient times, scholars and philosophers have posited that character—and not just smarts—is what makes people succeed. Now, cutting edge research is proving the ancients right. In his latest book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosit
In 2008, the book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns set the education community on fire, with its bold predictions of the coming growth in online learning. In this Ed Next book club podcast, host M
In the introduction to her new book, Peg Tyre quotes a Dad frustrated by the process of choosing a school. “It’s absurd. When you purchase a house, you get an inspector’s report. When you buy a sports car, at least you get to check under the ho
It is very rare for an education policy book to become a best-seller, much less a national phenomenon. Diane Ravitch’s The Death and Life of the Great American School System has been both, in spades. A chronicle of Ravitch’s “radical change of
Geoffrey Canada, the founder and leader of the Harlem Children’s Zone, is one of education reform’s best known and most respected heroes. A child of the streets of the South Bronx, he created what might be the most intense, most integrated effo
School reformers are a dime a dozen these days, with education policy a suddenly sexy field and more than a few people willing to challenge the status quo. But it wasn’t always so. Back in the 1960s, when Fordham Institute president Checker Fin
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