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The 74 Interview: CEO Tara Chklovski Talks About Getting Underserved Families — Especially Girls — Excited About Artificial Intelligence

Mareesa Nicosia

74 Interview: Two Former Governors, TN Republican Bill Haslam and DE Democrat Jack Markell, See a Bipartisan Path Forward on Schools, Standards & Prioritizing ‘Education Across the Aisle’

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74 Interview: Teacher of the Year Finalists on Setting Priorities, Changing Policy, and Taking On a More Political Role

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: NovoEd’s Andrew Linford on Blockchain, the Sharing Economy, Student Feedback in the Classroom & Shifting Teacher Mindset

Tim Newcomb

The 74 Interview: Do Standards and Project-Based Learning Go Hand in Hand? Prof. Nell Duke Says Yes, & Looks at the Best & Worst of PBL

Kate Stringer

74 Interview: Achieve Atlanta’s Tina Fernandez on Doubling the Number of Atlanta Public School Students Graduating From College by 2025

Laura Fay

How One Education Leader’s Newark Nonprofit Became One of the Few Minority-Led Groups to Win a $30 Million Federal Grant to Fight Poverty

Mimi Woldeyohannes

The 74 Interview: Parkland Teacher, Filmmaker Talk New HBO Documentary on the Shooting, Its Aftermath, and the Musical That ‘Must Go On’

Mark Keierleber

The 74 Interview: Democrats for Education Reform’s Shavar Jeffries on the Blue Wave, the Politics of the Possible & Grand Bargains

Beth Hawkins

74 Interview: ‘The City Fund’ Founders Talk About Their New Campaign to Identify America’s Most Innovative Public School Systems and the First Metro Areas Where They’ll Be Investing

Steve Snyder

74 Interview: Integrated Schools Founder on Talking to White Parents About Privilege and Turning Neighborhood Schools Into a Rallying Cry for Integration

Conor P. Williams

74 Interview: With Political Headwinds Rising, Constance Jones Becomes 1st African-American Woman to Lead Chicago’s Noble Network

Beth Hawkins

One-on-One With Lewis Ferebee: New D.C. Schools Chancellor Talks About Why Districts Need to Expand Career & Technical Education for Enrollment, Enlistment, and Employment

Emmeline Zhao

The 74 Interview: Sen. Maggie Hassan on Moms in Congress, Advocating for Kids With Disabilities, and Special Ed & Classroom Innovation

Beth Hawkins

74 Interview: Former Sacramento School Chief, Author of ‘Wildflowers: A School Superintendent’s Challenge to America,’ on Educating the ‘Whole Child’

Conor P. Williams

WATCH — America’s Education Priorities for the New School Year: 8 Current & Former Education Chiefs Weigh In on How States & Schools Can Drive Innovation in 2019

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Watch — Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Priorities for a New School Year: As the World Changes Faster Than Our Education Systems, America Risks Being Left Behind

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74 Interview: NYC Schools Chief Richard Carranza Talks Integration, Smart Parents, Renewal Schools, and Quality Assurance Across 1,800 Schools

David Cantor

74 Interview: Sen. Cory Booker on Teacher Quality, Celebrity Star Power, and Why His Newark School Reforms Were Actually a Success

Laura McKenna

74 Interview: Journalist Roland Martin Talks His New Digital News Platform, Giving Voice to the Voiceless & Being a School Reformer Since Childhood

Mimi Woldeyohannes

Watch — North Carolina’s Jim Hunt on Priorities for a New School Year: Governors Must Realize Their Economies and Classrooms Are Intertwined & Build Bipartisan Support for Boosting Students

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Watch — Former NM Education Chief Hanna Skandera on Priorities for a New School Year: Rethink How Families Are Engaged in District Decisions & How Graduates Are Prepared for Their Next Step

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74 Interview: NewSchools Venture Fund’s Stacey Childress on 20 Years’ (and $300 Million) Worth of School Breakthroughs & What She’s Learned About Supporting Education Innovation

Kate Stringer

Watch — Former NYC Chancellor Joel Klein, on Priorities for a New School Year: Shifting Our Focus From Special Interests to Families & Better Preparing Kids for a Whole New Economy

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The 74 Interview: Harvard’s Karen Mapp on ESSA, Family Engagement, and How Schools and Communities Can Partner to Help Kids Succeed

Kate Stringer

The 74 Interview: Strayer University President Brian Jones on Social Justice, ‘Pragmatic Compromise,’ and Becoming a ‘Thoroughbred’

Andrew J. Rotherham

Watch — Jeb Bush, on Priorities for a New School Year: America’s Economy Is Being Redefined & Governors Must Lead the Charge in Helping Classrooms Catch Up

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Watch — Marc Sternberg Talks Priorities for a New School Year: Why Governors Must Keep Kids and Their Future Prosperity at the Center of the Ed Debate

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Watch — Margaret Spellings, on America’s Priorities for a New School Year: More Equitable, Affordable Education to Sustain the ‘Innovation Economy’

Jim Fields

74 Interview: Longtime Civil Rights Activist Howard Fuller on Trump, DeVos, and What It’s Like to Advocate for School Choice in an Age of ‘Hypocrisy’

Mario Koran

74 Interview: Former North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue on Educating a 21st Century Workforce & the ‘Most Horrific Public Discussion’ She Ever Heard

Emmeline Zhao

Exit Interview: Camden’s Paymon Rouhanifard Reflects on 5 Years of Surging Student Achievement, Expanding Parental Choice in One of NJ’s Poorest Districts

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Criminologist Nadine Connell on Why She’s Building a 30-Year Database of School Shootings — and What Hidden Lessons May Be Found in the Stats

Mark Keierleber

74 Interview: Deborah Quazzo on the Business of Education Innovation, the Nation’s Shrinking Skilled Workforce & the GSV Acceleration Fund

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Idaho Superintendent Ybarra on Rural Students, Rethinking School Funding, and Why She Opposes Private Choice Bill

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Parent Activist Mary Moran on Engaging Families and Demanding Accountability in New Orleans Schools

Beth Hawkins

74 Interview: ‘Newcomers’ Author Helen Thorpe on a Year in the Life of America’s Refugee Students — and Why Public-Private Partnerships Are Essential

Conor P. Williams

The 74 Interview: Olympian Alex Rigsby on Winning Gold, Learning Through Sports, and Mentoring 4 Classrooms of Kids

Andrew J. Rotherham

The 74 Interview: Teacher of the Year and Gun Owner Nate Bowling on Arming Teachers & Keeping Kids Safe in School

Andrew J. Rotherham

74 Interview: Sal Khan on Personalized Learning, a Global Diploma, and How He’d Spend $100 million

Romy Drucker

74 Interview: Joel Rose on Personalized Learning’s ‘Overdue Transition,’ Building Better Tests — and Meeting Kids Where They Are

Laura Fay

74 Interview: Allan Golston on Network Schools, Scaling Solutions to Inequity, and Why Curriculum Matters — and Luck Shouldn’t

Kate Stringer

74 Interview: Richard Culatta on How to Do Personalized Learning Well — and Why It Could Be the Key to Narrowing a School’s Equity Gap

Kate Stringer

74 Interview: Massachusetts Education Leader Russell Johnston on Poverty, Improving Special Education & Living Mitchell Chester’s Legacy

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Save the Children’s Mark Shriver on Creating a Powerhouse Lobby for the Powerless

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Two Texas Middle Schoolers on Ending Gun Violence, Seeing the Signs

Kei-Sygh Thomas

74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

David Cantor

74 Interview: DACA-mented California Teacher on What Trump’s Immigration Policies Will Do to Undocumented Kids

Mark Keierleber

74 Interview: D.C. Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson on Closing the City’s Achievement Gap and How His District Is Unlike Any Other in America

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Indiana Educator Earl Phalen on Innovating Classrooms for Low-Income Students of Color — and the NAACP’s ‘Phony’ Charter War

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: NOLA Schools Chief on Unifying City Schools and Differing With DeVos on Choice

Carolyn Phenicie

The 74 Interview: Councilman Vincent C. Gray on Charters, Pre-K, and Rising Tides in D.C. Schools

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Rory Kennedy’s New Documentary Delves Into Digital Divide Hurting America’s Poorest Students

Kathy Moore

74 Interview: Philly’s U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans on Charters, Trump, and School Revitalization

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: How Retired Football Player Wade Smith Has Dedicated His Post-NFL Career to Tackling Bullying and Illiteracy

Kate Stringer

The 74 Interview: Alexis Morin on Students For Education Reform, Youth Power & Achieving Educational Justice

Kate Stringer

74 Interview: David Hardy on Putting Purpose Before Politics and Kids Before Adults in Leading Ohio’s 2nd State-Takeover District

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Michael Lomax, CEO of the United Negro College Fund, on Guiding Low-Income Students Through College

Emmeline Zhao

The 74 Interview: You Don’t Think Your Child Is Average & Harvard’s Todd Rose Doesn’t Either

Romy Drucker

74 Interview: Rick Hess and His 21 Letters

David Cantor

74 Interview: Catherine Lhamon Takes On Trump With Probe Into Cutbacks on Student Civil Rights

Mark Keierleber

74 Interview: Rep. Virginia Foxx on Better Career and Technical Education, ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come’

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Colorado Rep. (and Gov. Hopeful) Jared Polis on Denver Schools, ESSA & Special Education

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: IDEA Schools COO Irma Muñoz, on Being a Living ‘Proof Point’ for Undocumented Students

Mareesa Nicosia

74 Interview: Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens

Kate Stringer

Teacher of the Year Finalist Athanasia Kyriakakos on Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders Through the Arts

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Teacher of the Year Finalist Megan Gross on Embracing Students With Severe Disabilities

Carolyn Phenicie

The 74 Interview: Ulrich Boser on Understanding the Science of Learning

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: NY Education Chief MaryEllen Elia on ESSA, Undocumented Students & Turning Schools Around

Mareesa Nicosia

Teacher of the Year: The First-Ever Charter Honoree Talks Social Justice, Trauma, and Accountability

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Professor Cheryl Fields-Smith on Why More Black Families Are Homeschooling Their Kids

Naomi Nix

74 Interview: Anne Holton on Desegregation, Working the Clinton Campaign, and Fixing Virginia’s Schools

Mark Keierleber

74 Interview: Gail Saltz on the Connection Between Learning Disabilities and Genius

Emmeline Zhao

74 Interview: Max Eden, His Book About ESSA With Rick Hess, and the Ed Policy Rorschach Test

David Cantor

74 Interview: John King on His Year as Ed Secretary, the Trump Administration, His New Role at Ed Trust

Mark Keierleber

The 74 Interview: Houston Chronicle Reporter on How He Uncovered the Year’s Biggest Education Scandal

Matt Barnum

The 74 Interview: L.A. Education Activist Yolie Flores on Schools, Politics, and Why She’s Running for Congress

Conor P. Williams

The 74 Interview: Kirabo Jackson on the Importance of School Spending, ‘Soft Skills’ and Teacher Quality

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: New Mexico Education Secretary Hanna Skandera on How Her State Is Turning Around Schools

Kate Stringer

Korman: I Was a Lawyer Volunteer at Dulles Airport When Trump’s Immigration Ban Took Effect

Mark Keierleber

The 74 Interview: Denver Schools Chief Talks ‘Trump Effect,’ School Closures and Teacher Performance Pay

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Education, National Security and Donald Trump

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: New Leaders Co-founder Benjamin Fenton on ESSA and How to Develop Better Principals

Naomi Nix

74 Interview: Louisiana Schools Chief John White on ESSA, School Closures and Local Control in NOLA

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: Tennis Great Andre Agassi Serves Up School Buildings to 69 Charters — and Counting

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Jeb Bush — Yes on Choice and Standards, No on Trump and Clinton

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: Obama’s Chief for Black Kids’ Education Reflects on Wins, Work Left Undone

Natasha S. Alford

74 Interview: Former L.A. Superintendent John Deasy Previews New Initiative to Rethink Juvenile Prisons

Matt Barnum

The 74 Interview: Harvard Education School Dean Jim Ryan Talks School Funding, Vergara and Ed Research

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: RePublic Schools’ Ravi Gupta on the Next Frontier of the Education Reform Wars

Richard Whitmire

74 Interview: Researcher Susan Dynarski on Boston Charters, Student Poverty, and Data in Education

Matt Barnum

74 Interview: Early Ed Expert Ruby Takanishi on Why K-12 Doesn’t Work Without Pre-K

Conor P. Williams

74 Q&A: ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed Talks About His Arrest, How It Factors Into School Discipline Debate

Mark Keierleber

74 Interview: Prof. Chris Emdin Busts Classroom Myths, Talks ‘White Teachers in the Hood’

Natasha S. Alford

74 Interview: Senator Lamar Alexander on Keeping ESSA From Becoming The Next Obamacare

Carolyn Phenicie

The 74 Interview: Former Asst. U.S. Education Commish on Race, Reform and Saving Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

74 Interview: Communities In Schools’ Retiring Prez on Helping At-Risk Kids with Love — and Data

Carolyn Phenicie

74 Interview: Education Advocate Myrna Castrejon on Building Great Schools for LA’s Poorest Kids

Sarah Favot

74 Interview: Julio Fuentes on Empowering Hispanic Communities to Demand, and Attract, Better Schools

Romy Drucker

The 74 Interview: Prof. Matt Delmont on How Northern Whites Used Busing to Derail School Integration

Matt Barnum
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