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Dismantling Ed Dept. Will Harm More Than 26 Million Kids — and America’s Future

Flores: Students in poverty & rural areas, kids with disabilities, English learners and homeless children will all suffer without federal protections.

Yolie Flores
Author: Yolie Flores
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Learning Together as a Team Boosts Both Teachers’ Practice & Student Achievement

Fisher & Frey: Our work in 115 schools shows the benefits of professional learning communities that focus on student data and continuous improvement.

Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
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To Close the Latino Student Success Gap, Open Up the Educator Pipeline

Fernandez and Bryson: When Latino students have teachers with the same background, it creates an environment where students can thrive.

Amanda Fernandez & Dana Bryson
Teacher Retention
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The Voices We Don’t Hear: Teachers Who Gave Up

Pondiscio: So many earnest, well-intended people want to teach but find the job untenable. We should hear what they have to say and learn from them.

Robert Pondiscio
Author: Robert Pondiscio
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Rogers: Great School Leaders Make Great Schools. How Leadership Support for Principals & Superintendents Makes All the Difference for Kids

Kate Rogers
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Opinion: Honesty (With Yourself) Is the Best Policy: 4 Steps to Help Schools Reach Their Academic Goals for Their Students

Anthony Kim
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Opinion: A Generation of High-Performing, Low-Income Students Is Getting Lost in the Crowd. Some Reasons Why — and What Can Be Done

Timothy Daly
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Appraisal: How Paymon Rouhanifard Rallied Camden Around Its Schools — and Why His Impressive Turnaround Will Endure

Laura Waters
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Commentary: Yes, Pay Teachers More. But States, Districts, and Schools Must Use Resources Strategically If Educators and Students Are to Thrive

Karen Hawley Miles
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Chavous: For Kids in Traditional Schools, Testing Can Be a Challenge. For Some Kids, Parents & Teachers in Online Schools, It’s a Nightmare

Kevin P. Chavous
Reactions & Reflections

Why Tests & Standards Aren’t Just About Your Kid: What We Learned This Week About the Widening Gap in America’s Schools

Steve Snyder
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Opinion: The U.S. Doesn’t Have Enough STEM Teachers to Prepare Students for Our High-Tech Economy. 4 Steps Toward Addressing That Shortage

Melissa Moritz & Emily Weiss
Union Report

Union Report: How Much Control Do Unions Have Over Teacher Walkouts in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arizona? Not as Much as You’d Think

Mike Antonucci
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Opinion: Family’s Tale of 2 Schools Shows the Perils and the Promise of Public Education in New Mexico

Seth Saavedra
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Cami Anderson: Disparate School Discipline, the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter, and Civil Rights — 5 Key Points That Get Lost in All the Noise

Cami Anderson
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Petrilli: The 7 Key Storylines in This Year’s Disappointing NAEP Results

Michael J. Petrilli
A Nation At Risk, 35 Years Later

We Are Still a Nation at Risk, but We Can Avert by Listening to Consumers

Bill Hansen
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Opinion: Student Loan Borrowers Need Help Now, or Their Debt Could Hurt Them, and This Country, for Decades to Come

Scott Thompson
A Nation At Risk, 35 Years Later

3 Ways ‘A Nation at Risk’ Gave Voice to a New Generation of Education Advocates

Suzanne Tacheny Kubach
A Nation At Risk, 35 Years Later

35 Years Later, Blockbuster Reagan-Era Education Report Has Remarkable Durability and Resilience

Bruno V. Manno
A Nation At Risk, 35 Years Later

Landmark 1983 Report Faced Backlash but Changed U.S. History by ‘Changing the Way We Look at Education and Putting It Back on the American Agenda’

Milt Goldberg
A Nation At Risk, 35 Years Later

To Save Our Democracy and Economy, the Future of American Education Must Start Now

John Heubusch
A Nation At Risk, 35 Years Later

The Workplace of Today Is Not What It Was 35 Years ago. Computational Thinking Is the New Basic Requirement

Mary Snapp
Denver

Tony Lewis: Denver’s 2020 Student Goals Could Take up to 30 Years to Meet. Time for an Urgent New Strategy — or for City Education Leaders to Step Aside

Tony Lewis
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