Paul T. Hill

Students in the Munroe Elementary School after-school garden club (L-R) Anai Carrillo, Jessica Grimaldo, Andrea Torres and Sandaley Haileseolph at the table in the foreground chop vegetables to put in a stir fry dish they would cook in Denver, Colorado May 9, 2012. The students learn to grow and prepare healthy meals in the school's garden club, with some of the food going to the school's lunch program. Colorado has the second fastest growing childhood obesity rate in the nation says non-profit LiveWell Colorado. Groups like Livewell are working to reduce childhood obesity by supporting school gardens, especially in low income areas, to provide learning about healthy food while actually providing nourishment. Studies have shown that children are more likely to try eating fresh fruit and vegetables if they are involved in growing them. Photo taken May 9, 2012. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH EDUCATION SOCIETY) - TM3E85F16B801

The calm before the storm in local education politics

Paul T. Hill and Ashley Jochim

Monday, June 22, 2020

An empty classroom is seen during a class operated during lockdown for the healthcare workers' children at the Dupanloup elementary school in Boulogne near Paris, France, on May 05, 2020. Questions rise about the reopening of schools on the eve France's gradual exit from lockdown on 11 May. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

During COVID-19, underperforming school districts have no excuse for standstill on student learning

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

students sit at the back of the classroom

Desegregating schools: More than just getting the numbers right

Monday, December 16, 2019

Teacher Darcy McKinnon teaches math to her seventh grade class at Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans February 22, 2006.

Charter schools: Good or bad for students in district schools?

Friday, June 7, 2019

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during an interview at City Hall in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott - RC1DE62B05F0

Chicago’s mayor sees through the fog on school autonomy

Friday, February 15, 2019

Pre-schoolers draw together

School funds should follow students, not protect institutions

Robin Lake and Paul T. Hill

Thursday, May 17, 2018

An audience member holds a copy of the U.S. Constitution during a campaign stop with U.S. Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio in Des Moines

Teaching the ‘unwritten Constitution’

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

New York State Bicycle Road 11, between Potsdam and Canton.

In a changing rural America, what can charter schools offer?

Terry Ryan and Paul T. Hill

Monday, May 22, 2017

Children play in the playground area at the Frederick, Maryland Head Start facility March 13, 2012. When officials in Frederick County, Maryland voted last year to stop paying for the local Head Start preschool program, they pointed to a nearly $12 million projected budget shortfall as proof that the mostly rural county could no longer afford it. Picture taken March 13, 2012. To match story USA-EDUCATION/HEADSTART REUTERS/Gary Cameron

A troubling contagion: The rural 4-day school week

Paul T. Hill and Georgia Heyward

Friday, March 3, 2017

Students arrive at the Walton Rural Life Center Elementary School, in Walton, Kansas, January 18, 2013. Students at the school do farm chores at the beginning of each school day. The Walton Rural Life Center - a kindergarten through fourth grade charter school in rural Kansas - uses agriculture to teach students about math, science, economics. REUTERS/Jeff Tuttle (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - RTR3DVPU

A better future for rural communities starts at the schoolhouse

Wednesday, January 4, 2017