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Derrell Bradford is president of 50CAN.

National School Choice Week

Time to Start Funding Families and Students Directly

Craig Hulse & Derrell Bradford

January 26, 2022

Analysis: It’s Tempting to Scrap Testing, but We Need Data to Measure Student Progress. It’s Time for a Fresh Approach

Derrell Bradford & Marc Porter Magee

September 15, 2020

Bradford: Black Lives Matter and Black Education Matters Because Freedom Matters. Only When Black Folks Are Safe to Both Learn and Live Will America Be Free

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Some Truths About Education in the Current Normal — There Will Be No Orderly Return to School in the Fall. Kids Will Continue to Learn Online. Epidemiology Wins

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: $13B in Stimulus Money for K-12 Schools Is a Good Start. But All Types of Schools Will Need More Help From the Feds in Order to Reopen

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: ‘Too Close’ for Comfort? Progressive ‘Colorblind Racism’ Is Driving Opposition to Boston Charter School

Derrell Bradford

February 19, 2020

Bradford: Beware the Democrats’ New Teachers Union Loyalty Test

Derrell Bradford

February 3, 2020

Bradford: Democratic Presidential Wannabes Blame Charters for School Segregation. They Ignore the Racist Redlining That’s Actually to Blame

Derrell Bradford

August 18, 2019

Bradford: When the Cost of Admission Is Paying Off a College, Americans Are Outraged. But When It’s the Price of a House Near a Good School, There’s Silence

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Are Democrats Really Soured on Education Reform? Or Is it Just a Battlefield for Deeper Policy Conflicts Within the Party?

Derrell Bradford

January 27, 2019

Bradford: Teachers Are Hugely Important. But I’m Not Only Against the Strikes in L.A. and Other Places, I’m Hostile to Them. Here’s Why

Derrell Bradford

January 15, 2019

Bradford & Brown: To Imagine the Future, You Need to Discuss What It Could Be. We Must Empower New Voices in Education to Have These Critical Conversations

Derrell Bradford & Brennan Brown

October 3, 2018

Bradford: Integration Is the New Poverty — at Least When It Comes to Crafting Excuses for America’s Underperforming Schools

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Are We Doomed to Repeat NCLB’s Mistakes on Accountability for Minority Students Under ESSA? The Devil’s in the Details

Derrell Bradford

Reactions & Reflections

Analysis: Is Scapegoating Charter Schools on Segregation Actually a Stealth Attack on Educational Excellence for African-American Students?

Derrell Bradford

January 9, 2018

Janus v. AFSCME

Bradford: Could the Supreme Court’s New Union Dues Case Liberate Reform-Minded Democrats to Do What’s Right for Kids?

Derrell Bradford

October 20, 2017

Bradford: A Free Education System Bought and Sold on the Housing Market, as It Was Intended to Be

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: For Black Families Focused on Education, the NAACP Just Committed ‘the Worst Kind of Betrayal’

Derrell Bradford

Bradford, Fuller & Stewart: Liberating Black Kids From Broken Schools — By Any Means Necessary

Derrell Bradford, Chris Stewart & Dr. Howard Fuller

Future of Education Reform

Bradford — The Politics & Partisanship of America’s Education Reform Debate: A Growing Blue-Red Divide

Derrell Bradford

Future of Education Reform

Bradford — The Politics & Partisanship of America’s Education Reform Debate: Time for a Suburban Strategy?

Derrell Bradford

Future of Education Reform

Bradford — The Politics & Partisanship of the Education Reform Debate: Why Being ‘Right’ Isn’t Enough

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Why Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Faith in Public Schools Loses Sight of Some Harsher Truths

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Charter Schools’ Best Allies May Be the Parents Who Don’t Know Anything About Them — Yet

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Teachers Unions Exploited Ed Reform Split Over DeVos While Never Losing Focus

Derrell Bradford

February 21, 2017

Bradford: Dangerous for Charter Advocates to Embrace Elizabeth Warren and Trash School Vouchers

Derrell Bradford

January 30, 2017

Bradford: How Obama’s K-12 Schooling Drove His Education Policy — and May Also Shape His Retirement

Derrell Bradford

January 17, 2017

Bradford: Water for Accountability, How the Post-NCLB Coalition Must Be Both Fluid and Strong

Derrell Bradford

January 3, 2017

Bradford: One Final Thought on the NAACP’s ‘Modest Proposal’ Against Charter Schools

Derrell Bradford

December 4, 2016

Bradford — Why Do I Hope DeVos Boosts School Vouchers and Scholarships? Because They Changed My Life

Derrell Bradford

November 27, 2016

Bradford: More Wins Than Losses for Education Reform in a Tumultuous Election Year, Especially in NY

Derrell Bradford

November 15, 2016

Bradford: Press Tuned In to the School Choice Split in the Black Community — and That’s a Good Thing

Derrell Bradford

October 9, 2016

Bradford: Why Black Lives Matter Must Protect the Parents Protesting Via Public Charter Schools

Derrell Bradford

September 6, 2016

Analysis: NY Senate Blasts Mayor De Blasio on School Oversight, While Tossing Lifeline to NYC’s Charters

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Social Justice, Education Reform and How This Whole Left-Right Feud Is Missing the Point

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Randi Weingarten’s Ugly Endorsement and the War Against Poor Students

Derrell Bradford

Bradford: Maybe It’s Time for Eva Moskowitz’s Critics to Stop Hating and Start Creating

Derrell Bradford

February 16, 2016

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

Derrell Bradford

January 14, 2016

Opinion: Weingarten’s Dishonest Charter Attack, and the Politics of Exploiting Violence Against Minority Kids

Derrell Bradford

November 15, 2015

NY’s Common Core ‘Review’ May Pacify Opt-Outers, But War With Teachers Looms

Derrell Bradford

October 14, 2015

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

Derrell Bradford

September 28, 2015

The 2015 NH Education Summit

Opinion: Primary Politics, “Local Control” and a Swift Sprint Away from Standards at the GOP Education Summit

Derrell Bradford

August 19, 2015

De Blasio’s Uber Attacks Just Like Anti-Charter Schools Campaign

Derrell Bradford

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