Education Next – Michael J. Petrilli
“It strikes me, and several others with whom I’ve spoken in recent months, that education reform is at a turning point. It’s not just the new federal law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, which sends key decisions back to the states. It’s bigger than that. It’s a feeling of exhaustion with policy as the primary driver of educational change. To be sure, there are many policy battles still to fight and win in almost every state—to ensure that school and teacher accountability do not disappear, to defend and expand high-quality charter schools and other forms of parental choice, to do something about chronically low-performing campuses, to see that high-achieving poor kids don’t get ignored, and much more.”(more)