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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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apprenticeships

Teach For America Should Embrace Apprenticeship Model Amid AmeriCorps Cuts

Donaldson: An apprenticeship model would provide the funding and the training needed to bring more teachers into the classroom.

David Donaldson
Author: David Donaldson
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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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Colorado

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
Personalized Learning

Opinion: Why I’m Afraid of Personalized Learning

Lisa Hansel
Opinion

Opinion: Misguided Backlash After TV Ad Accurately Depicts Separate and Unequal NYC Schools

Derrell Bradford
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Opinion: Why the Friedrichs Court Case Will Give Teachers More Power — and Better Pay

Mike Antonucci & Michael J. Petrilli
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Williams: The Disjointed, and Increasingly Dishonest, Attacks on Charter Operators

Conor P. Williams
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Join Our Conversation: Letters to the Editor

The 74 & Bellwether Education Partners
WA Charters

Opinion: 5 Reasons Why Washington’s Arcane Charter Verdict Is Unlikely to Affect Other States

Nelson Smith
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Court Reminds GOP: ‘Obamacore’ Owes More to Reagan and Bush

David Whitman
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Opinion: Will Shifting Political Winds Strip WI of its Standards?

Terry Kaldhusdal
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Business Leaders Know Common Core Is Essential to America’s Workforce

Cheryl Oldham
WA Charters

Poor Kids Are the Ones Hurt Most by Wash. Supreme Court Ruling Charters Schools Illegal

Rep. Eric Pettigrew
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Campbell Brown: De Blasio’s Vision Not Nearly Radical Enough to Fix NYC Schools

Campbell Brown
On the Campaign Trail

Colorado Dispatch: Why Hillary Clinton Is Right to Focus on Student Debt

Crisanta Duran
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Opinion: In Missouri, a Fight to Override a Governor’s Veto — and to Rescue Poor Kids from Failing Schools

Dmitri Mehlhorn
WA Charters

Opinion: Why Washington’s Supreme Court Decision on Charters Threatens America’s Choice Movement

Gerard Robinson
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Opinion: The Conversations We Don’t Have About Struggling Students

Seth Litt
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Opinion: Liberals Push to Correct Inequality — Just Not If It Involves Opening Up Our Neighborhood Schools

Conor P. Williams
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Eva Moskowitz: Student Performance Is a Mirror

Eva S. Moskowitz
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Whitmire: Reformers Must Move Faster to Close Failing Charters, or Risk Backlash Bigger Than ‘Opt-Out’

Richard Whitmire
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Tucker: Stripping Accountability from NCLB Betrays the Civil Rights Struggle

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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Opinion: The Common Core Has Been a Game Changer for Military Schools (and Military Families)

Mary Scott Hunter
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