Student Achievement

Obama's speech today matters because there's a psychic cost to not knowing a larger world beyond your day-to-day life; American kids need to know their president, whether they support his policy agenda or not.

The assertion that we don't know what makes good teachers before trying them out for a few years while measuring their students' test gains is simply not true.

Last week in Colorado, Barack Obama gave a truly incisive speech on improving education in America.