Monitoring and Evaluation at Save the Children
This summer I am working with Save the Children’s monitoring and evaluation team in the El...
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Tag: Education Policy
Building Economic Ties between the United States and Brazil through Education
At the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, I will board a train travelling 12 hours from Belo...
Read MoreDon’t Price Students Out of an Education
President Lyndon Johnson said, “Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.” As students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, President Johnson’s commitment to...
Read MoreInvest in Texas’ Future
When Ross Perot embarked on his crusade to fix the Texas education system in the 1980s, he said the state’s schools excelled in only three areas: drill...
Read MoreSchool Accountability: Reform or Retreat?
Last week, the Statesman delivered good news for Texas: STAAR passing rates jumped after a recent round of retakes. This is a big win not only for Texas schoolchildren and teachers, but also for state policy. The...
Read MorePublic Schools Have a Revenue Problem, Not a Spending Problem
With school districts across Texas rallying against drastic budget cuts, many elected officials and critics of public schools have tried to cast educators as being responsible for the situation they’re currently facing....
Read MoreA Costly Denial
As the debt ceiling debate fades, a new reminder of a dangerous collective malady emerges with the ill-defined protests that started in New York and have spread throughout the country. The protests, despite the message the...
Read MoreFrom Schoolhouse to Courthouse
Disrupting class used to land kids in the principal’s office or detention. In Texas, however, more and more children are facing criminal prosecution, criminal records and hefty fines for acting out in school....
Read MoreThe “Other” Tragedy in Public School Funding
We’re all aware of the beating public education took this past legislative session. A total of $5.3 billion was cut, representing the first time Texas deliberately underfunded its schools. As a result, thousands of...
Read MoreTexas’ Charter School Movement Shows Growing Pains
Charter schools are quickly becoming an important piece of both national and state-level education reform efforts. They’ve been praised in movies like “Waiting For Superman” as one of the few hopes for...
Read MoreTo Truly Fix U.S. Education, Start Outside the Classroom
Frustrated by rising costs and stagnant achievement levels on standardized tests, American politicians and media-savvy education reformers have over the past several years pushed for a complete overhaul of this...
Read MoreKeeping Schools Out of the OR
As Texas legislators and education officials are scrambling to find ways to reduce school spending, a few of the politically savvy ones are spinning the budget crisis as a means to “reinvent public education in...
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