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Jaylen, a sixth grade student at one of our partner schools, shares his story. When teachers team up with parents, powerful things happen.

Envision a classroom full of second-grade students who are at the tail end of a lesson. These students are really having fun. The reason why may shock you: they are completing a formative assessment about what they learned. This is the picture in Ryan Feeney’s second...

The Trump administration has proposed $2.4 billion in FY2018 cuts to one of the most important levers for improving the quality of education in the U.S.: professional development. The reason? “Funding is poorly targeted and supports practices that are not...

When Mr. Freeman, a fourth grade teacher at Du Bois Integrity, began his first year of teaching last year, he experienced two challenges that are common to first-year teachers. Both these challenges related directly to his interest in making his classroom environment...

According to the “Teachers Know Best” report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, teachers are excited about personalized learning, but they have expressed concern that digital content is not rigorous enough. In speaking with educators across the country, the...

I recently heard Jim Shelton, President of Chan Zuckerberg Education, speak about Benjamin Bloom’s famous paper from the 1980s, “The 2 Sigma Problem.” Jim’s talk encouraged me to reread that paper and marvel at what a great framework Bloom gave us to think...

The promise of instilling ownership of learning in students has been proffered for decades. Ask fellow educators about students owning their learning and you’re likely to hear that it’s incredibly important to student success. You’re also likely to hear a wide range...

Since 2000, the Program for International School Assessment (PISA) has been testing high-school students in 69 countries to gauge their ability to think. PISA has been releasing the results of the tests–which they give every three years in math, science, and...