Photo credit: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein. From The Irony at the Heart of the War on Teachers Three and one-half years ago, much of the...

Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Findings from research conducted jointly by the RAND Corporation and the Center on Reinventing Public...

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash In case you were wondering about the main title of this blog series, Virginia Beach’s Old Donation...

In Part 1 of this blog series, I reported some unsettling statistics from the Virginia Department of Education’s 2021 and 2022 Fall...

Photo by Phil Reid on Unsplash If you saw my seven-part blog series last summer or my follow-up post, Two Steps Forward and One Back,...

Photo by Tim Mudd on Unsplash This is the first blog post I’ve written in nearly five months. It almost didn’t get written, but not...

Anyone who has read my summer blog series or the letter I wrote recently to the editor of Virginia’s largest daily newspaper knows where...

When I posted Part 1 over seven weeks ago, I said it was the first installment of a multi-part blog series. At that time, I didn’t know...

Welcome to Part 6 of my blog series. So far, we’ve covered how a large school district uses universal screening, standardized testing,...

The purpose of this blog series is to analyze the reasons behind the underidentification of certain identity groups in a large school...

So far in this blog series, I’ve shown the discrepancies between the proportion of Black, Latine, and economically disadvantaged students...

Welcome back to my blog series. In Part 1, I explained that the series is an update to my June 2021 article, Promoting Privilege:...

In Part 1, I explained that the purpose of this blog series is to provide updates to my June 2021 journal article. In the article, I...

My most recent journal article, Promoting Privilege: Selecting Students for a Public Gifted School, was published one year ago this...

Back in January, I wrote a blog post that questioned the judgment of the leadership of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS). In the...

This is the second part of a blog series in which two former central office administrators recount their experiences and make...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY-TV) Jan 20, 2022 / 09:53 PM EST – Virginia beach school officials have decided to retain their universal mask...

My previous post (Coming Soon to a School Near You?) recounted firsthand experiences with gun violence in DeKalb County, Georgia and...

Coming Soon to a School Near You? On the popular Cult of Pedagogy website, Jennifer Gonzales recently wrote that “this is the worst...

Earlier this month, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted, “I think parents should decide what their children are taught in...

“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” This statement, often...

Welcome back, gentle readers. In the previous installment of this two-part blog series, I described how the bipartisan No Child Left...

It’s back to school time and kids everywhere are excited about the prospect of taking lots of tests to measure their “learning loss”...

Before taking a central office job with the DeKalb County (GA) School District, I was a classroom teacher at a magnet school for high...