Executive Summary The moment they earn their bachelor’s degrees, black college graduates owe $7,400 more on average than their white peers ($23,400 versus $16,000, including non-borrowers in the averages). But over the next few years, the black-white debt gap more than triples to a whopping $25,000. Differences in interest accrual and graduate school borrowing lead to black gr...

On Top of the News Racial aspects tinge Massachusetts charter debate The Boston Globe | 3/29/2016 Behind the Headline Boston and the Charter School Cap Education Next | Winter 2014 In Massachusetts, the political battle over whether to raise a cap on the number of charter schools has come to center around the issue of race. As David Scharfenberg of the Boston Globe observes T...

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education released draft regulations spelling out what states need to do to comply with the accountability provisions of the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act. As Emma Brown explains in the Washington Post, The law requires states to continue administering standardized math and reading tests to students in Grades 3 th...

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One of my biggest concerns about ESSA has been its lack of a meaningful “safety valve” for kids in failing schools. There is no getting around the fact that this version of ESEA does not spell out parent-directed education options the same way No Child Left Behind did, with its explicit provisions for supplemental educational services and school choice. When ESSA eliminated...

Kim Feller founded Feller School in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2022 with the knowledge that students with dyslexia learn differently and require explicit instruction to help them see the patterns that make up our language. I need to tell you about Jermiah. He was a scrawny little boy with buzzed hair and more energy than three kids combined. He’d burst into ...

Student performance in the nation’s capital has increased so dramatically that it has attracted significant attention and prompted many to ask whether gentrification, rather than an improvement in school quality, is behind the higher scores. Our new analysis shows that demographic change explains some, but by no means all, of the increase in scores. The National Assessment of E...