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Dismantling Ed Dept. Will Harm More Than 26 Million Kids — and America’s Future

Flores: Students in poverty & rural areas, kids with disabilities, English learners and homeless children will all suffer without federal protections.

Yolie Flores
Author: Yolie Flores
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charter schools

A Way Out of SCOTUS Charter School Ruling Mess: Focus on Mission, Not Religion

Kahlenberg: Changing laws to require charters to teach American democratic values would weed out parochial schools — and some secular ones as well.

Richard D. Kahlenberg
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Career and Technical Education
Future of High School

Amid Chaos, There’s Still Plenty of Good News on the Path to Higher Education

Litow: Career pathways represent a bipartisan approach to supporting students through high school to college and the workforce.

Stanley Litow
Author: Stanley Litow
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child care
Early Learning Nation

The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Is Long Overdue for Reform

With a budget debate looming, here are some of the proposed solutions on the table.

Elliot Haspel
Author: Elliot Haspel
Opinion

Cami Anderson: School Reform 2.0 — Educational Excellence AND Equity

Cami Anderson
Union Report

Analysis: How the NEA Came to Love Citizens United

Mike Antonucci
The Founders By Richard Whitmire

Arne Duncan: What Impresses Me Most About the First 25 Years of Public Charter Schools

Arne Duncan
Opinion

Campbell Brown: Poor Students’ Futures Are on the Ballot in Massachusetts This November

Campbell Brown
Opinion

Bradford: Why Black Lives Matter Must Protect the Parents Protesting Via Public Charter Schools

Derrell Bradford
Union Report

Analysis: When the National Education Association Fights With Its Own Breakaway Locals

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Petrilli: The Child Poverty Rate Plummeted After Welfare Reform. What That Means for Education

Michael J. Petrilli
Opinion

Mehlhorn: The Top Court in CA Declines Teacher Tenure Case, as Dissenting Justices Write for History

Dmitri Mehlhorn
Union Report

Analysis — When Teachers Unions Become The Man: Why Union Employees Are Fighting for Better Contracts

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Matus: John Oliver’s Charter School Critique and the Left’s Growing Divide Over School Choice

Ron Matus
Opinion

Smith: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver’s Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools

Nelson Smith
Opinion

Jeremiah Grace: Connecticut Charter Schools Celebrate ‘Miraculous’ 20th Anniversary

Jeremiah Grace
Union Report

Analysis: Act Locally, Think Nationally — The NEA’s Plan to Capture America’s Hearts & Minds

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Cynthia Tucker Haynes: How a Backlash Against Elites Became an Attack on School Standards

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
Opinion

John Deasy: Bridging the Chasm Between the World and Me — My Promise to Ta-Nehisi Coates

John Deasy
Opinion

Teaching Trump: How Do You Talk to Students About ‘Character’ When Donald Keeps Rewriting the Rules?

Allison Crean Davis
Opinion

Brown: Mayor De Blasio’s Shameful Claim That NYC Students Only Perform Well Thanks to Test Prep

Campbell Brown
Opinion

Campbell Brown: NYC Charter Schools — Surging Parent Demand vs. Reluctant City Leaders

Campbell Brown
Union Report

Analysis: Los Angeles Teachers Head Is Ready to Incite A ‘State Crisis’ If Union Demands Are Not Met

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Opinion: What Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Evaluation

Maryann Woods-Murphy
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