Dr. Celine Coggins founded Teach Plus in 2007 to create policy and practice leadership paths for excellent teachers. During her…
Education First, with the support of Overdeck Family Foundation, is proud to release Making the Most of ESSA: Opportunities to…
High-quality STEM education is necessary to grow our economy, meet workforce needs and inspire young minds; ESSA provides an opportunity…
It’s no secret that our education system continues to struggle with issues of race and diversity. I recently saw this…
State education agencies have a unique opportunity through the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to access the funding and support…
In 2010, the Hewlett Foundation committed to an ambitious vision for improving public education in the U.S.: Ensuring underserved students…
Few states have had as exciting a journey for public education as Delaware. Fueled by multi-million dollar grants, a committed…
The year was 2013. Opposition to the Common Core—and to the new assessments aligned to these more rigorous standards—was running…
Think back to your days as a high school student. Did you take the SAT or ACT test? Did you…
What was it like inside a state that implemented a cascade of new education policies over the past five years?…
The Every Student Succeeds Act gives states the flexibility to decide how to measure student success in high school. This…
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives all states the chance to dramatically change the way they approach and think…
Sailors for centuries have used the North Star to gauge their relative location to their ultimate destination. Its remarkable light…
One of the biggest changes ESSA brings to education policy is a requirement that states start including a broader range…
As part of our Districts Rising publications, we sat down with new Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang to talk…
I stepped into my classroom at Eastern Senior High School, a public school in Washington D.C., for the first time…
When Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute declared an “accountability design competition” on January 5, 2016, with a…
Happy New Year from Education First! We hope you had a restful, joyous and peaceful holiday season. Now that the…
