6/10/2026·Kate Carter

You've probably seen "Title I school" in news coverage, school profiles, or policy discussions and wondered what it actually means. The label carries assumptions in both directions: some people hear it as a mark of failure, others as evidence of extra support. Neither framing is quite right...

6/9/2026·Kate Carter

The case for private school usually goes something like this: better outcomes, smaller classes, more focused environment, and the kind of network and signaling value that pays dividends for decades. It's a case that sounds compelling and, in specific circumstances, is compelling. But it rests on an assumption that doesn't hold in all fifty states equally: that the private school option is actually better than the public school option in the same area...

6/8/2026·Arthur Chen

Most of the debate around school start times focuses on test scores and mental health. Those are legitimate concerns worth the attention they get. But there is a third consequence of early school start times that rarely makes it into school board presentations or parent meetings, even though it is arguably the most urgent argument for change: the relationship between early morning classes and teen car accidents...

Where students are stronger in math than reading, and where it's the reverse, in every state and school.

Mega high schools serving 4,000+ students, and what scale does to outcomes.

Elementary schools with 2,000+ students, and what large elementary scale means operationally.