The Pell grant is already too low for most needy students who go to four-year colleges.

(What’s happening in Bibb County) is kind of characteristic of what’s going on across the country.

There’s instability of enrollment, health issues, teachers teaching out of field, high teacher turnover, low parent education.

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren’t checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

We’re pumping out boys with no honest alternative, and of course their neighborhoods offer many other alternatives.

The law sets out what seem to be very clear goals and consequences. However, as researchers predicted before the law was enacted, huge numbers of schools would be branded as failures, including many that are...

Suburban America has no idea about this crisis. But we are all going to pay for it in the end.

Only the kids who get a postsecondary education are even keeping even in terms of income in their lives, and so forth. The rest are falling behind, year by year. Only about a twelfth of...

There’s one thing you can’t learn in a segregated school as a minority. You can’t learn to operate in an integrated society. The same is true for whites who grow up attending all white schools....

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

There’s nothing I know of in the research world that (says) size itself matters. There’s lots of small, awful districts in this country.

Segregation is growing in degree and complexity as the nation becomes increasingly multiracial.

The Supreme Court that used to be pushing us forward is undermining efforts to desegregate.