Check out the best of news and commentary on the reform of American public education from the past month:
Indianapolis consultant Steve Baranyk gains some lessons on the dropout crisis and discusses them in this Voices of the Dropout Nation commentary.
Green Dot Public School’s Steve Barr and Phillip Jackson of the Black Star Project offer insights on school reform and grassroots activism.
Watch Gates Foundation education boss Vicki Phillips talk about Teacher Quality, Whitney Tilson on solving the dropout crisis, and this documentary on Detroit’s educational failures.
And listen to the Dropout Nation Podcast on Building a Culture of Genius in Education, fostering long-term connections between teachers and students to stem the dropout crisis, and using school reform to spur economic and community development.
