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The article focuses on need of smaller classes for the youngest kids and support for families and reinvigorating the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights and the department's historic role protecting the civil rights of students. It mentions remote learning is a struggle for any student, let alone students in financially or emotionally unstable households. It also mentions importance of increased federal funding during a crisis of great magnitude.

The author presents his thoughts on the state of U.S. education policy under the leadership of Betsy DeVos as secretary of the Department of Education. He is critical of policies related to school violence protection, student loan debt, and rights of transgender students and argues against DeVos' stance to let states and school districts decide policy.

In this article the author discusses how to improve the U.S.'s lowest-performing schools. He is critical of the states' need to reform schools by adopting kindergarten through grade 12 standards, creating data systems that will track student progress, placing effective teachers in the classrooms where they will have the maximum student impact, and educational improvement plans for low-performing schools. Also investigated are the educational changes made to the Chicago, Illinois school system.