[H]ow are policymakers and charter school authorizers doing on that score...

If journalists pound out “the first rough draft of history,” who writes the final version? I certainly hope it’s not those folks who churn out high school history texts. These guys produce little more than rambling, turgid assemblages of “too much information...”

How readily can we identify effective teachers? And, perhaps most crucially, what are promising strategies for seeking to increase the number of effective teachers in high-poverty schools and communities...

Devised early in the 20th century to prevent arbitrary firings over politics (teaching positions were frequently used as patronage) or pregnancy (a widespread practice in an age when nearly all teachers were women), [tenure has] turned into an administrative straitjacket that effectively prevents them from being dismissed for anything at all...