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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
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O’Keefe & Rotherham: Why Underground Testing Consortia Are Thriving

Andrew J. Rotherham & Bonnie O’Keefe
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A Parent’s Perspective: For My Son Kevin, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Wasn’t Enough

Ana Garcia
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Ortega: With Anti-Trump Democrats Giving Up on Education Reform, States Will Have to Take the Lead

Israel Ortega
Personalized Learning

Lake: Are We Personalizing Learning for the Students Who Need It Most?

Robin Lake
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Kane: States and Governors Must Collaborate as They Again Learn to Drive Education Under ESSA

Thomas J. Kane
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Opinion: How to Extend the Reach of Great Teachers in Turnaround (or Any) Schools

Erin A. Burns
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Analysis: Assessing 22 Years of State Control as Newark Votes for the Board to Take Back Reins of City Schools

Laura Waters
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Analysis: How Trump’s Budget Cuts Could Harm Communities and Students in Washington, D.C.

Karen Gardner
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Sanzi: Rhode Island Gets Serious About School Standards, Adopts Massachusetts’s Tests

Erika Sanzi
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Analysis: A May Day March to ‘Reclaim Schools’ — Previewing Teachers Unions’ Day of ‘Action’

Mike Antonucci
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Berner: How School Culture Drives Civic Knowledge and Shapes the Next Generation of Citizens

Ashley Berner
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Pennington & Rotherham: Why California’s Bid to Kill Income Tax for Teachers Is a Terrible Idea

Andrew J. Rotherham & Kaitlin Pennington
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Braimah: 3 Ways to Think About School Choice Through the Lens of Equity and Diversity

Valerie Braimah
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Hyslop: How the Every Student Succeeds Act Empowers States to Find Innovative Uses for Federal Funds

Anne Hyslop
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Gray & Petrilli: 3 Ways That States Can Improve Low-Performing Schools Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

The 74
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Hage & Tuthill: Private, Charter, Voucher—When School Reformers Unite to Give Families Diverse Choices, Kids Win

Jonathan Hage & Doug Tuthill
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Williams: It’s Not What Trump’s Education Department Will Do That Should Worry Critics; It’s What It Won’t Do

Conor P. Williams
Union Report

Exclusive — The California Teachers Association Has a Whole Lot of Money to Burn: Here’s How It Spends It

Mike Antonucci
Personalized Learning

Fisher: Making Equity a First Principle of the Personalized-Learning Era

Julia Freeland Fisher
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Whitmire: In Bridging Charter-District Divide, Educators Collaborate to Make the Impossible Happen

Richard Whitmire
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