David Osborne talks with Marty West about the education reform strategies being embraced by the elected school board in Denver which have made the school district a leading example of urban reform.

Read the full article here: http://educationnext.org/denver-expands-choice-and-charters/

Andy Smarick talks with Marty West about innovation in the Catholic school sector.

Read the full article here: http://educationnext.org/innovation-in-catholic-education-instruction-governance/

Mike Petrilli and Marty West discuss the role schools can play in putting more low-income children on the path toward success, and what schools need to do differently in order to do a better job.

Marty West talks with Dan Goldhaber about the differences teachers and schools make. Goldhaber is the author of “In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most.”

Read the full article here: http://educationnext.org/in-schools-teacher-quality-matters-most-coleman/

Marty West talks with Doug Lemov, Colleen Driggs, and Erica Woolway, authors of the new book Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction.

Read an excerpt of the book here: http://educationnext.org/background-knowledge-doug-lemov-reading-reconsidered-excerpt/

Marty West talks with Anna Egalite about the Coleman Report's finding that family background explained more about student achievement than factors within the control of the school or other things that education policy can influence.

Read the full article here: http://educationnext.org/how-family-background-influences-student-achievement/

Susan Patrick sits down with EdNext editor Paul E. Peterson to discuss what impact the new Every Student Succeeds Act could have on digital learning.

Tom Kane talks with Marty West about why education research is not having an impact on education policy and what it would take for decisions made by policymakers at the state and local level to be influenced by research.

Amanda Olberg interviews Paul E. Peterson about the results of his new analysis of state academic standards, and in particular, how high states are setting the bar for student proficiency.

Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago sits down with Marty West to discuss how school segregation has changed since the publication of James S. Coleman’s “Equality of Educational Opportunity” report in 1966.