Published Articles & Media
“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”: Why State Chiefs Should Do Both
To fully exploit ESSA’s expanded possibilities for state leadership on school and district improvement, state superintendents will need a wide range of skills.
Can High Standards and Accountability Co-Exist? Lessons From the Common Core Assessment Consortia
It’s easy for policymakers and the public to embrace high standards in principle. But when policymakers seek to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable for those standards by using the results from aligned assessments, support is far more likely to falter.
The Politics of the Common Core Assessments
Why states are quitting the PARCC and Smarter Balanced testing consortia
Rumors of Death Premature: Portfolio Management Still Alive and Kicking in New Orleans
Can the portfolio strategy in New Orleans still fog a mirror, or is it dead as Jay Greene has just announced? It looks pretty lively, with all public school kids in charter schools and results improving steadily.
Can City Schools Address the Achievement and Opportunity Gap?
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 Response to “Breaking the Mold”
Mike Kirst’s review of our book, A Democratic Constitution for Public Education, is insightful and constructive and raises important questions about how our proposal would work in practice.
Fixing Detroit’s Broken School System
Improve accountability
and oversight for district and charter schools
