Matt Barnum

Ary Amerikaner is on a mission to make America integrate schools again. A lawyer and education policy advocate who worked in the Obama Education Department, Amerikaner cofounded and leads an organization called Brown’s Promise. The landmark 1954 Supreme C... See more

Chalkbeat Ideas is a section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. Even some educators skeptical of technology say they can’t go cold turkey on Chromebooks. W... See more

Chalkbeat Ideas is a section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. While running for governor of California, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan was eager to talk about... See more

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Most Iowa school districts have quietly agreed to exclude undocumented high school students from certain federally funded career and technical educati... See more

Can students really skip college and earn a good living? Here’s what the data shows. For much of the last few decades, some young people have heard a simple mantra: bachelor’s or bust. That is, they were told that the best and perhaps only path to economi... See more