Reopening Our Schools

This essay pairing features two vocal supporters of charter schools, both of whom strongly believe that the promise of education – especially for at-risk and underserved students – is enhanced by the expansion of public school options. Still, their advocacy...

We invited Catherine Brown, vice president, education policy, and Meg Benner, senior consultant, at the Center for American Progress, to react to the arguments made in The Line....

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,...

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...

Ensuring the American Dream does not become an American myth is as great a challenge as any we face today. Various pundits have their reasons for how we got here, but there remains one solution without which all others will...

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...

Featuring // Tom Boasberg, Superintendent, Denver Public Schools / Bruce Fuller, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education When discussing which “choice” of K–12 education options is best, most objective professionals would say that the “jury is still...

By Alison Coker, Executive Director, Human Resources, Guilford County Schools, North Carolina; Dale Fisher, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, Deerfield Public Schools District 109, Illinois; Jo Ann Hanrahan, Director, Research & Data Analysis, Frontline Education...

Education clearly has not escaped the partisan polarization that has long besieged so many issues in America. Still, when The Line polled school administrators and our social media followers about choice, we weren’t sure what kind of response we’d get....