(Readers please note: Family circumstances beyond my control extended my August hiatus. Over the next weeks, I'll get the blog back up to speed. Thanks for your patience.) The pressure to weaken and even gut NCLB’s accountability regime is...

Paul Edelman is a former NYC public school teacher and founder of TeachersPayTeachers.com, a division of Scholastic Inc. With the launch of TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) in April of 2006 the big question was: With all that free stuff out...

The historic mission of public schools is a quality education for all students regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, social background, disability, or native language. It has been honored in the breach too often, but at least in my lifetime, the...

Kristen Plemon is an Account Executive with the public relations firm, C. Blohm & Associates Inc. Traditional marketing methods are losing effectiveness as increasing numbers of marketing messages bombard potential buyers on a daily basis....

A few days ago, I was asked to define “capacity” in the context of school reform. It's an important question to the school improvement industry because building capacity is what it does. My first thought was “that’s pretty obvious, capacity...