Reopening Our Schools

The Frontline Research & Learning Institute shares teacher evaluation trends through the lens of policy and practice....

America’s education system is not the train wreck some claim, yet I’m always baffled when people argue that we’re doing pretty good or even ok....

So, do the fundamentals still matter? Ruszkowski and Hoffman would agree that the answer is “yes.” But what exactly are the fundamental underpinnings of a strong public education? That is the essence of the conversation that unfolds here....

Retired two-time NBA world champion M.L. Carr gives his perspective on current civil rights issues. Carr played for the Detroit Pistons then the Boston Celtics, where he also coached. We learned his point of view has been shaped by a...

A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief The construct of liberty and the gifts of the freedoms that emanate from it go as far back as the thinking of Aristotle. John E. Deasy, Editor-in-Chief Dear Readers, Human civilization had been wrestling with...

What you can do when wrestling with students' freedom of expression featuring Meira Levinson, Ph.D., Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Wayne Bevis, Principal, Lindblom Math and Science Academy....

What happens when the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union and a noted reformer and a resident scholar from a conservative-leaning Washington, D.C. think tank talk school choice? We were curious about how two clearly bright, opinionated and passionate...

Robert E. Slavin, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins University, School of Education / Ulrich Boser, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and Founding Director of its Science of Learning Initiative Neal McCluskey,...

Ideas Wither without Civil Discourse. John E. Deasy, Editor-in-Chief I was recently thinking about the “motto” of the Washington Post: “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and mulling over what would be our motto at The Line, if we had one. And...

The story of school choice is evolving across the United States. But how that story plays out is influenced by a complexity of circumstances and leadership. The Line Editor-in-Chief John E. Deasy talked with Barbara Jenkins, superintendent, Orange County, Florida...

Upon reading every article and written contribution to this issue, I am struck by one thing: not one contributor was humiliated, castigated, threatened, demonized, fired, ostracized or denigrated for their position or opinion. None of our respected contributors used inflammatory...

T he public discourse surrounding professional learning has, for many years, been characterized by a combination of disgust and paralysis. Educators, the narrative goes, are subject to “development” experiences that are high in neither quality nor relevance. And those rare...

In May, the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, made a stirring speech concurrent with the removal of memorials to the Confederacy and reminded us that all history is worthy of remembrance but not all history is worthy of reverence....

Some deem this a healthy and long-overdue development, believing that social justice demands that education be understood through the prism of race and inequality. They believe that tackling deep racial inequities is the measure of one’s commitment to educational improvement,...