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Support for Testing and Accountability Is Waning. Is Politics to Blame?

Hartney: It reflects the unwillingness of the political class to make holding schools accountable for learning the cornerstone of American education.

Michael Hartney
Author: Michael Hartney
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How Trump’s Power Push Echoes Resistance to Fixing Education’s Deepest Problems

Kogan: Schools' dysfunction is hard-wired into a governance model that puts adults' political agendas ahead of students' educational interests.

Vladimir Kogan
Author: Vladimir Kogan
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Schools Need Evidence-Based Curriculum. Researchers Need Schools to Help

Black: The next generation of evidence-based programs won’t come from ivory towers or glossy marketing decks. They’ll come from classrooms.

Stacey Black
Author: Stacey Black
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Immigrant Students are Learning in Fear. State Lawmakers Can Help Change That

Amézquita and Kleyn: Amid federal cuts and deportation threats, states need to step up to prepare teachers and help students.

Sara P. López Amézquita & Tatyana Kleyn
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Analysis: How Trump’s Budget Cuts Could Harm Communities and Students in Washington, D.C.

Karen Gardner
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Sanzi: Rhode Island Gets Serious About School Standards, Adopts Massachusetts’s Tests

Erika Sanzi
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Analysis: A May Day March to ‘Reclaim Schools’ — Previewing Teachers Unions’ Day of ‘Action’

Mike Antonucci
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Berner: How School Culture Drives Civic Knowledge and Shapes the Next Generation of Citizens

Ashley Berner
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Pennington & Rotherham: Why California’s Bid to Kill Income Tax for Teachers Is a Terrible Idea

Andrew J. Rotherham & Kaitlin Pennington
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Braimah: 3 Ways to Think About School Choice Through the Lens of Equity and Diversity

Valerie Braimah
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Hyslop: How the Every Student Succeeds Act Empowers States to Find Innovative Uses for Federal Funds

Anne Hyslop
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Gray & Petrilli: 3 Ways That States Can Improve Low-Performing Schools Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

The 74
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Hage & Tuthill: Private, Charter, Voucher—When School Reformers Unite to Give Families Diverse Choices, Kids Win

Jonathan Hage & Doug Tuthill
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Williams: It’s Not What Trump’s Education Department Will Do That Should Worry Critics; It’s What It Won’t Do

Conor P. Williams
Union Report

Exclusive — The California Teachers Association Has a Whole Lot of Money to Burn: Here’s How It Spends It

Mike Antonucci
Personalized Learning

Fisher: Making Equity a First Principle of the Personalized-Learning Era

Julia Freeland Fisher
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Whitmire: In Bridging Charter-District Divide, Educators Collaborate to Make the Impossible Happen

Richard Whitmire
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Litow: Revised Perkins Act Is Key to Getting Great Technical Programs Like P-TECH to More Needy Kids

Stanley Litow
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Erquiaga: Why Trump’s ‘America First’ Budget Puts Children in Poverty Last

Dale Erquiaga
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Open Letter: Illinois’s Legislature Must Reject Bill That Creates Moratorium on New Chicago Charters

Andrew Broy
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Arnett: Trump May Have Stripped Back Regulations on Teacher Preparation, but Many States Are Moving Forward

Thomas Arnett
Union Report

Analysis: My Union Has More Money Than Your Union

Mike Antonucci
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Chris Cerf: How Newark’s Public Schools — Both Traditional and Charter — Are Working Together to Lift All Boats

Chris Cerf
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Korman: How ESSA Is Driving States to Create Education Transition Policies for Incarcerated Students

Hailly T.N. Korman
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