Are We Delivering on the Promise of Education?

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

A review by // Will Austin, Founder & CEO, Boston Schools Fund Will Austin is the founder and CEO of the Boston Schools Fund, an organization that supports and funds the growth of high-quality, high-demand schools of all types. The...

A Letter from the Frontline Education CEO   Dear Readers, In advance of this second print issue, The Line editorial team conducted an online poll about school choice. The poll asked this question: can there be strong public schools and...

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...