On Monday I attended an education technology conference--a few hundred people reviewing very simple education tools. On Wednesday I attended a milita...

"Parent involvement" in education often means "make your kid behave" and "donate to the PTA." Parent involvement is taking on a serious new role in L...

Race to the Top strikes again! The mother of all grant programs has produced more reform than any grant program in history. And the feds haven't spe...

EdWeek ran a useful commentary by friends from JFF and Johns Hopkins that outlined the range of challenges faced by states in fixing the roughly 2,000...

The sun set at 4:22pm at latitude 47.3. It will set about a minute later tomorrow. The days are finally getting longer again. We also turned the ...

1. Arne Duncan is taking advantage of an unbelievably large budget and pushing a tough reform agenda targeting low-income kids and struggling schools....

K-12 education is a bigger part of the American economy than defense and while federal spending is a small proportion, federal legislation increasingly frames how it operates.