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Future of High School

We Are High Achievers, But We Were Almost a Statistic

Briauna and Tiauna Black: When tragedy struck, a hybrid school provided the flexibility and support needed to move from high school to career.

Briauna Black and Tiauna Black
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New Hampshire’s Universal School Choice Expansion Is a Win for Students, Parents

Mullins: Strong policy changes lives, and the Granite State just changed thousands of them for the better. It's not just policy — it’s possibility.

Ashley DeMauro Mullins
Author: Ashley DeMauro Mullins
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School’s Out for Summer. Parents Need Support With Youth Mental Health

Bullock, Contreras and Curbelo: Parents are understandably frustrated by how challenging it is to find the right resources to support their kids.

Steve Bullock, January Contreras & Carlos Curbelo
Future of High School
Future of High School
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Reflections From a Formerly Disengaged Teen

Student’s view: I used to sit in the back of class, trying my best to avoid eye contact with my teacher, but now I sit in the front row every day.

Hannah Askew
Author: Hannah Askew
Opinion

O’Keefe & Rotherham: Data Should Tell Parents How Their Kid’s School is Doing. Right Now, It Doesn’t

Andrew J. Rotherham & Bonnie O’Keefe
Opinion

5 Key Things You Need to Know About Important New Study on the Benefits of KIPP Pre-K

Ashley LiBetti Mitchel
Opinion

Analysis: Why Charlottesville Is a Wakeup Call for Educators Who Believe in Equal Promise for All Students

Paul Keys
Opinion

Bertelli: Why a Recent Drop in Charter School Support Is Not About Charter School Quality

Chris Bertelli
Opinion

Langhorne: When Pursuing Education Becomes a Crime, It’s the System That Should Be Scrutinized, Not the Students

Emily Langhorne
Opinion

Cunningham: The School Choice Debate Has Derailed. It’s Time to Focus on Parents’ Rights & Student Success

Peter Cunningham
Union Report

Exclusive: Teachers Union Document Reveals Master Plan for Unionizing Charter School Networks

Mike Antonucci
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Whitmire: In the State That Created High-Performing Charter Networks, College Success Is Lagging Behind Others

Richard Whitmire
Opinion

Rafal-Baer: In Education, Preparing Next Generation of Leaders Shouldn’t Be a Revolutionary Idea

Julia Rafal-Baer
Personalized Learning

Smith: 10 Lessons From Rocketship Education’s First Decade as a Pioneer of K-5 Personalized Learning

Preston Smith
Opinion

Oreopoulos: No Diploma Without a Plan for the Future? Why Chicago’s New Graduation Requirement Might Work

Philip Oreopoulos
Opinion

Williams: How a Tougher Test and Chaos in D.C. Just Made Things a Whole Lot Harder for Kids Learning English

Conor P. Williams
Union Report

Analysis: Teachers Union Adds 40,000 Offshore Members While Labor Rolls Stagnate at Home

Mike Antonucci
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Quality Early Learning Programs Are a Key to Future Success. Why Don’t States Put Them in Their ESSA Plans?

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

Derrell Bradford
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Litt: Why Kids in Low-Performing Schools Are Set to Lose Big Under California’s Current ESSA Plan

Seth Litt
Personalized Learning

Lake & Tuchman: Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice

Robin Lake & Sivan Tuchman
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Anello: Why the NAACP Should Look Beyond Misleading Narratives & Work With Charters to Lift Up Black Students

Daniel Anello
Opinion

Analysis: How OER Is Boosting School Performance and Equity From the Suburbs to the Arctic

Layla Bonnot
Union Report

Analysis: Which Bothers Randi Weingarten More — Segregation or School Choice?

Mike Antonucci
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