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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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Why Students and Families Don’t Use Their School Choice Scholarships

Matus and Cherry: About 41,000 students received Florida’s choice scholarships but didn’t use them last year. Availability and affordability were key.

Ron Matus & Dava Cherry
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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
Opinion

Williams: When Students Own Their Academic Results, They Transform Their Schools

Erin Williams
Opinion

Jeb Bush: What the Media Is Getting Wrong About Florida’s Push to Help Students With Disabilities

Jeb Bush
Opinion

Fiddler: The Cost of Textbooks Is a Huge Obstacle for Poor Students. Here’s a Solution

Ann Fiddler
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Bankert: If Rahm Emanuel’s Graduation Plan Is to Succeed, Colleges Must Lower Barriers for Poor, Minority Students

Lina Bankert
Student Voice

Student Voice: My Mother Is Undocumented. My Father Was Deported. I Am the Resistance

Esther Reyes
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Murray: Why One Ohio English Teacher Was Wrong to Say Preparing Students for Work Was Not His Job

Jeff Murray
Opinion

Dean Robert Pianta: Why Trump’s Policies Are a Threat to Role of Public Education in America

Robert Pianta
Union Report

Analysis: A Brief Summary of the Bizarre (and Sometimes Funny) Things You Didn’t Know Were in Teacher Contracts

Mike Antonucci
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Fisher: For HS Grads, 21st-Century Thinking, Skills (and Robots) Can’t Replace Importance of Human Networks

Julia Freeland Fisher
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Notes From the Field: If You Want Great Schools, First Work With Parents to Create ‘Actionable Demand’

Alex Cortez & Yordanos Eyoel
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Analysis: Former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell on Taking One Easy Step Toward Better Tests

Jack Markell
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Brizard and Pearson: Why Charter Boards Are the Key to School Success

Scott Pearson & Jean-Claude Brizard
Personalized Learning

DeArmond & Gross: It’s Time to Help Teachers Generate and Use Their Own Evidence on Digital Tools

Michael DeArmond & Betheny Gross
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A Pastor’s Perspective: How School Choice Is Lifting Up Florida’s Most Disadvantaged Students

R.B. Holmes
#ShowTheEvidence

#ShowTheEvidence: Building a Movement Around Research, Impact in Ed Tech

Aubrey Francisco, Bart Epstein, Gunnar Counselman, Katrina Stevens, Luyen Chou, Mahnaz Charania, Mark Grovic, Rahim Rajan, Robert Pianta & Rebecca Griffiths
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

Rees: National Charter Schools Week, and Bridging the Partisan Divide to Celebrate Great Public Schools

Nina Rees
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Parent’s Perspective: Why My Fifth-Grade Daughter Opted Into This Year’s State Tests

Damian Gaillard
Union Report

Analysis: In Anonymous Poll, Employees of Florida’s Teachers Union Decry Working Conditions

Mike Antonucci
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Tucker Haynes: Why Should Tax Dollars Go to Schools Designed to Segregate?

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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Analysis: In Newark’s Election of a New School Board, a Superficial ‘Unity’

Laura Waters
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