Published Articles & Media
What Are the Options for States Dealing With Unfunded Pension Liabilities?
Collectively, states face $1.4 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities, and $500 billion of that is due to teacher pension debt.
Why Should Education Advocates Care About Pension Reform?
Here are my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on.
Donald Trump Won. What Does That Mean for Education Policy?
Here are my 11 reflections on what this means and predictions for what might happen.
Are Teacher Turnover Rates Rising? Maybe Not
We may just be employing more teachers who fall into career stages with high turnover.
There’s A Huge Flaw in the ‘Teacher Shortage’ Data
Earlier this month the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) released a report with the worrying title, “A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.”
Hiring Teachers After the School Year Starts Harms Students
Somewhere between 10 and 30 percent of all new teachers are hired after the school year begins.
We Have to Improve the School Improvement Process
School is back in session in many places. And yet, state test results from last spring are still trickling out.
What Does it Mean to ‘Raise the Bar’ for Entry Into the Teaching Profession?
Policymakers have few useful tools to screen out “bad” teachers from the profession. The current screening tools are doing little more than unnecessarily limiting the supply of new teachers.
ESSA Didn’t Settle Federal Education Policy. Far From It.
Our next President will be forced to make a number of important education policy decisions almost immediately upon taking office.
Hillary Clinton Should Listen to Her Friend Raj Chetty on Teacher Effectiveness
She could learn about his work linking value-added measurement (VAM) scores of teachers to their students’ long-term life outcomes
