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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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Why the Traditional College Major May Be Holding Students Back in a Rapidly Changing Job Market

Rethinking the college major could help colleges better understand what employers and students need.

John Weigand
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How Well Do Middle Schools Prepare Students for HS? Here’s a New Way to Find Out

Griffith & Coffey: Using already available data, a HS Readiness Score can provide key information to parents searching for a school for their kids

David Griffith & Meredith Coffey
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The Most Overlooked Classroom In Every District

Carone: Youth sports are considered just a physical outlet for kids. What we’re overlooking is the depth of learning and development happening there.

Jonathan Carone
Author: Jonathan Carone
Opinion

Whitmire: Why Do Many Big Donors Prefer Charter Schools? (Hint: It’s Not Because They Hate Unions)

Richard Whitmire
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Haspel: The Right Conversation, But Wrong Conclusion

Elliot Haspel
Opinion

The Real Reason Candidates Aren’t Talking Education in New Hampshire, South Carolina (or Anywhere Else)

Conor P. Williams
Opinion

Campbell Brown: Will Farina’s Failures Cost De Blasio Control of NYC’s Schools?

Campbell Brown
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Tucker: The ‘Separate and Unequal’ Doctrine is Alive and Well in Detroit’s Terrible Schools. That Needs To Change

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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Michael Bloomberg, the Education Candidate?

Richard Whitmire & Andrew J. Rotherham
School Choice 2016

Student Praise for a Chicago High School Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Gabby Dixon
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Education Phrases Banned From 2016, Part 2: Readers Voice Their Pet-Peeves

The 74 & Bellwether Education Partners
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Letters to the Editor: Readers React to MLK Column, College Admissions News, and More

The 74
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Social Entrepreneurship: Connecting the Worlds of Education and Health Care

Richard Barth & Jonathan Jackson
School Choice 2016

Whitmire: The Secret to Building the Next Gen High School? Forget All Your Middle School Successes

Richard Whitmire
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Sibilia: Flint’s Water Crisis, Failing Schools, and the Lines That Divide Us

Rebecca Sibilia
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For 14 Months Now, I’ve Begged NYC to Help My Son’s Failing School — and No One Will Listen

Jonathan Rudolph
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Bradford: Have All Those ‘White Moderates’ Martin Luther King, Jr. Decried From Jail Become Today’s Anti-School Choice Progressives?

Derrell Bradford
The Friedrichs Case

Mehlhorn: How the Unions Lost Three Swing Votes and Pushed the Supreme Court Towards Historic Friedrichs Ruling

Dmitri Mehlhorn
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Viewpoint: Professor Responds to Article About Minnesota School Integration and Charter Autonomy

Myron Orfield
WA Charters

Actions Louder Than Words: Why Washington Lawmakers Must Save State’s Charter Schools

Lisa Macfarlane
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Mehlhorn: Student Rights, Judicial Precedent and Why 2016 Could See a Profound Shift in Education Law

Dmitri Mehlhorn
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Williams: The Fight to Boost Student Literacy Is Happening Years Too Late

Conor P. Williams
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One Way to Boost Student Success: Get Serious About Sex Education — and Teach the IUD

Michael J. Petrilli
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