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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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America’s Investment in Education Is Lagging — and the Workforce Pays the Price

Brown: America once led the world, but the global economy is evolving and other nations are surging ahead. We must recommit to innovation & training.

Courtney Brown
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Five Ways High-Performing Schools Use Data to Help Students Succeed

Saslow: 53 school leaders agree that data is key in areas ranging from daily instruction and extra help to absenteeism and family engagement.

Rianna Saslow
Author: Rianna Saslow
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The Power of ‘Precovery’: Building Safer, More Resilient Schools

Wong: With violent episodes increasing and natural disasters intensifying, schools need more proactive safety measures in place.

Marleen Wong
Author: Marleen Wong
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Assessing the Assessments: What a Survey of America’s Top Educators Revealed About Year-End Tests

Katherine Bassett
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Tucker: Research Confirms Bloomberg Was Right to Close NYC’s Worst Schools. Are You Listening, Mayor de Blasio?

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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NCLB Opinion: As Congress Shifts Power to States, Time to Realize the Fight for Better Schools Is Now Up To Us

Robin Lake
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From Wall Street to the South Bronx: Taking a Charter Fellowship and Changing a Community

Aasimah Navlakhi
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Williams: Why Progressives Should Fear, Conservatives Should Hate and Obama Should Veto the NCLB Rewrite

Conor P. Williams
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Opinion: Recess Consultants? “Microaggressions?” Just the Latest Signs of Entitlement Overrunning Our Schools

Brian Russell
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Opinion: A Pittsburgh Travesty, as Suburban Schools Reject the Displaced Kids of Wilkinsburg

Jonathan Cetel
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Kingsland: China Welcomes America’s Best Schools — While Massachusetts Outlaws Them?

Neerav Kingsland
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Opinion: Weingarten’s Dishonest Charter Attack, and the Politics of Exploiting Violence Against Minority Kids

Derrell Bradford
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Whitmire: New Report Shows Surging Charter Enrollment, But Could Breakthroughs Be the Prelude to a Backlash?

Richard Whitmire
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Tucker: In Attacking Charters, Hillary Clinton Reverses Course on School Choice — and Turns Her Back on Many Black Supporters

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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5 Ways to Get More Women in STEM: Mentoring, Motivation, Mistakes

Blair Blackwell
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Opinion: Is Public Education a ‘Natural’ Monopoly That Needs to Be Broken Up?

Sean Gill
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NYC’s Haven Academy, a Bronx Breakthrough Serving Kids in Foster Care That Carmen Farina Has Yet to Visit

Richard Whitmire
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Williams: NCLB Brought Good Things for Multilingual Students

Conor P. Williams
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Tucker: When the Schoolhouse Becomes the Station House, Confronting Too Many Cops in the Classroom

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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Whitmire: L.A.’s $490 Million Charter Push and Crunching the Costs of Improving a City’s School System

Richard Whitmire
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A Prison-to-School Pipeline? In California, the First School Inside a U.S. County Jail

Mark Guarino
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Williams: The Existential Horror of Teach for America

Conor P. Williams
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Tucker: Want a President Who Will Tackle Income Inequality? First Get a Candidate Who Will Talk K-12 Education

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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