Published Articles & Media
Every Student Succeeds Act
Leadership Makes a Difference: Lamar Alexander and K–12 Education
As governor, secretary of education, and senator, Alexander had vast influence.
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“School-Opening Extortion” Comes to Montgomery County, Maryland
"Teachers’ legitimate interest in risk-mitigation in the workplace does not extend to shutting down other people’s schools."
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Shooting the Test-Messenger
Backlash is less about testing than about resisting results-based accountability
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School Accountability in the Time of Virus
Not every test is entirely out of the question, even now.
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Even More Social Engineering in New York Schools
Two more years of de Blasio is 'plenty of time for a lot more mischief in education'
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Time To Put an Ice Pack on the Fever for Social and Emotional Learning
What happens when school leaders, teachers, and ed reformers get so preoccupied with the SEL indicators themselves that they neglect English, math, science, and history or forget how much those matter in the real world?
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Senator Warren’s “Pretty Awful” Education Plan
She’s gone further leftward—union kissing, charter hating—than any of the other major candidates.
Book Reviews
Growing Advanced Placement in Montgomery County, Maryland
An excerpt from “Learning in the Fast Lane”
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The Federal Charter Schools Program: A Short, Opinionated History
Avoiding the ‘rigidities and often dysfunction of local school districts’ yielded a success