The movement to reform the American education system is realizing the opposite of what it intends to do, Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991-93 and New York ...

When Michelle Rhee, ex-Superintendent of D.C. schools and serial prevaricator (which is a much nicer word than “liar”), decided to leave Students First, the education reform/privatization group she ...

America’s decades-long, bipartisan “education reform” movement, defined by an obsession with test scores and by viewing education largely as a tool for getting people higher-paying jobs, is finally in ...

Logan Snow, a third-grade teacher at the Dummerston, Vt., School, gets supplies ready for students in her classroom for the upcoming school year on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (Kristopher Radder/The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Standards-based reform” in the heyday of the education reform movement was a bit like the title of a recent film: Everything ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several years ago, fresh from my South Bronx fifth-grade classroom and still feeling my way through the unfamiliar world of public ...

I remember the first time I met Dan Willingham. I had just joined the Core Knowledge Foundation and Dan, a board member and esteemed University of Virginia cognitive scientist, was giving a talk at ...

School privatization efforts are making dangerous advances in states like Florida and Arizona. Neoliberal education reforms that have degraded public schools, from high-stakes testing to corporatized ...

Businesses can no longer afford to be passive observers in education reform. The future of our workforce — and our economy — depends on deeper, more intentional collaboration between education and ...

Education reform has accelerated over the past 30 years and was "fueled" by post-pandemic concerns from parents, according to a report from the Center For Education Reform (CER). "I do think that, ...

This week marks the third anniversary of the launching of AEI Education’s Conservative Education Reform Network (CERN). And it has been quite the three years for the conservative education reform ...