The School as a Commons
A first-edition essay arguing that public schools should be understood not as service providers, test-score factories, or consumer choices, but as democratic commons where children, families, educators, and communities build public life together.
Rethinking American Education
An explainer on why public education became one of America’s central democratic institutions, how privatization and racial inequality have weakened it, and what it would take to build excellent public schools for every child.