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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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Parents Who Oppose Sex Education in Schools Often Don’t Discuss it at Home

Lawmakers and school boards across the country have established policies limiting what schools can teach about gender, sexuality & reproductive health

Robin Pickering, Gonzaga University
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Don’t Destroy Institute of Education Sciences, Rebuild It With Students in Mind

Voight: Federal data is essential for understanding what’s working and what isn’t in education. The administration's cuts carry real consequences.

Mamie Voight
Author: Mamie Voight
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We Were Born on Social Platforms. Now We Want a Healthier Internet

Jain: Young people should take the lead in ensuring health information online is trusted, clear, and built for everyone, not just the loudest voices.

Tanushree Jain
Author: Tanushree Jain
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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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Opinion: Why Improving America’s Schools Must Begin with a Plan to Boost Youth Literacy

Michael Lombardo
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Opinion — Forgotten In the Charter School Debate: Educator Freedom Is at the Core of Classroom Innovation

Nina Rees
NOLA Schools — 10 Years After Katrina

Opinion: We Owe It To Our Kids to Replicate New Orleans’ Education Turnaround in Other Struggling Cities

Neerav Kingsland
NOLA Schools — 10 Years After Katrina

In Praise of My City, and My Students: One New Orleans Educator Marvels Over a Decade of Progress

Jamar McKneely
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Review: In Dale Russakoff’s “The Prize,” an Urgent Education Catastrophe Overflowing with Culprits and Caveats

Conor P. Williams
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New York Principal: Make No Mistake, Common Core Is Raising the Bar In My District

Kim Hardwick
The 2015 NH Education Summit

Opinion: Jeb Bush Swings Big on Pre-K at the Ed Summit — and Misses

Conor P. Williams
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Common Core’s Silent Majority: As Unions and GOP Candidates Bash Standards, Americans Remain Supportive

Paul E. Peterson & Paul E. Peterson
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