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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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Truly Shifting to Science of Reading Sometimes Takes ‘Balanced Literacy Rehab’

McQuillan: Even with new curricula and good intentions, old teaching habits die hard. How to break the cycle and improve literacy outcomes.

Kristen McQuillan
Author: Kristen McQuillan
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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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One Way to Boost Student Success: Get Serious About Sex Education — and Teach the IUD

Michael J. Petrilli
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Rees: How ESSA Elevates Public Charter Schools In Its Push For Higher Standards

Nina Rees
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I Kept My Little Girl Out of Kindergarten — and It Made My Family Stronger

Rachel Jardine
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Opinion: Even as ESSA Backpedals on Federal Accountability, Charters Set Tougher Standards

Greg Richmond
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Diversity, Desegregation and Why Affluent Brooklyn Parents Should Embrace Their School’s Rezoning

Molly Vollman Makris & Allison Roda
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Williams: Education Politics vs. Practice (Or Why So Many VERY BIG IDEAS Rarely Make It to the Classroom)

Conor P. Williams
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First-Person: One Newark Mother Explains How School Choice Saved Her Kids — and Why She’s Sharing Their Story With NJ Lawmakers

Rasheedah Dollar
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New York Votes to Delay Tying Scores to Teacher Evals: Inside Cuomo’s Perfect Political Storm

Bill Hammond
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Chris Cerf Reviews ‘The Prize’: The Book Was More Balanced Than the Book Tour

Chris Cerf
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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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