So you can call it the gym membership problem. Two people belong to a gym. One works out regularly and eats right. The other ...

A lot below: Accountability debates in Virginia, dismantling the Department of Education, Ross Wiener’s op-ed, the national voucher tax credit, and child protective services. Plus – when Starlee ...

We do fish porn around here, sure. We don’t do the real kind, this is a family friendly publication. Yet this week the sector has a porn scandal. So here we are. It turns out that self-described ...

Last month we put out a new analysis at Bellwether, Common Ground*, about the landscape the sector is operating in. I wrote a short post about it here. We identified six common themes we are seeing ...

I was on The Disagreement with Alex Grodd earlier this week. You can watch here. Rick Hess and I also joined Nat Malkus on his podcast. You can listen here. Both podcasts are about what’s happening in ...

Next week, on April 29th, I’ll talk with Dr. Sonja Santelises, outgoing CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools on her run in Baltimore and what she’s learned. You can join and ask questions. That’s ...

Jed and I talk AI, education politics, Virginia, and Target boycotts on a New WonkyFolk. Is Liz Cohen right that we need a need a Dry January for ed tech? That and more. You can listen where you get ...

Light posting this summer — a lot of time on the road, for both work and play. Last weekend I rode my bike from Worcester to Provincetown in the Pan-Mass Challenge, raising money for the Dana-Farber ...

In Eduwonk today, new WonkyFolk, some VA news, 2025 holiday books. This is probably the last post of the year. There was some noise about a possible big announcement from the administration before ...

The debate over standardized testing is an odd one. It’s highly political, often divorced from the facts. But that’s hardly unusual in education – and other issues. What strikes me, in addition to the ...

There’s a popular narrative that government doesn’t work that well lately – and budget brinksmanship in Washington this week certainly underscores that there is some truth to that. Yet underneath the ...

And I talked Charm City education with departing schools CEO Sonja Santelises. Today at 2p ET/11a PT Indiana state chief Katie Jenner, former SD state chief, CCSSO president, and Metametrics VP Melody ...