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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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Analysis: Cory Booker Could Have Run Away From School Reform. Instead, He’s Doubling Down on Newark’s Education Revival. That’s a Smart Move

Laura Waters
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Cohen: More States Are Offering Multiple Paths to Graduation. Which One Students Take Can Have Devastating Consequences for Their Future

Michael Cohen
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Aldeman: Teachers Need to Build a Nest Egg. Schools Need Teachers to Stay on the Job. Changing Rules on Vesting in Pensions Can Help Both

Chad Aldeman
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Commentary: Video Classes, Interactive Tutoring, Blended Learning — An Innovative Program Brings AP Courses to Students in Rural Mississippi

Jeff Clay, Todd English, James Henderson, Evelyn Jossell, Tony McGee, Brock Puckett & Val Towner
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Commentary: L.A.’s Teachers Union May Soon Go Out on Strike. They Should Think About the Children and Not Make Them Collateral Damage

Katie Braude
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One Mom’s Fear: Is My Child Already Behind on Day One of School? Probably Not, but It’s the First Thing to Talk About With His Teacher on Back-to-School Night

Kai-Leé Berke
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Wicks: Americans’ Commitment to Democracy Is Strong — and Civics Education Is the People’s Choice for Making Our Democracy Even Stronger

Anne Wicks
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Roemer — The Next Phase for America’s Most Radical School Improvement Effort: What New Orleans’s Shared Governance District Will Need to Succeed

Caroline Roemer
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The First Word My 4-Year-Old Learned This Summer Was ‘Lynching’: Why I Thought It Was Important to Take My Preschooler to Montgomery

Bekah McNeel
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Shuls: Do Charter Schools Take Districts’ Money? Only If You Think Children, and the Funding That Comes With Them, Are District Property

James V. Shuls
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Walsh: Teacher Residencies Are Fine. But Districts Already Have the Power to Fix the Student Teacher Pipeline — at Far Lower Cost

Kate Walsh
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Razsadin: How Teachers Can Ease the Transition for Military Children When They’re the New Kid in School — Again

Shannon Razsadin
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Commentary: 5 Lessons From an Indiana District That Worked With an Outside Partner to Turn Around Its Troubled Schools

David Smith, Susan F. Lusi & Rob Jentsch
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Levesque: States, Districts, and Businesses Must Work Together to Create Successful CTE Programs for Students. These 3 Playbooks Can Help

Patricia Levesque
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Milkie: 20 Years, 17 Schools & 25,000 Students — Noble Charter Schools Celebrates Its 1st 2 Decades & Looks Forward to the Next 2

Michael Milkie
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Rittling: How New ESSA Preschool Development Grants Will Help States Build a Foundation of Success for Our Littlest Learners

Sarah Rittling
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Golston: Today’s $90 Million Gates Foundation Grants Are Just a Down Payment on $460 Million to Aid Dozens of Schools & Tens of Thousands of Kids

Allan Golston
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Parent Perspective: 5 Ways Parents — and Parent Advocates — Can Stand Up for Families and Quality Education for All Children

Tafshier Kim Cosby-Thomas
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Commentary: Building Trust Between Students and Teachers Helps Kids Overcome Trauma — and Makes Schools Safer

Micere Keels
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Boser & Frank — Forgetting Can Be an Important Part of Learning: How ‘Summer Slide,’ and the Process of Relearning, Can Actually Help Students Master a Subject

Ulrich Boser & Chris Frank
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