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Scholar Douglas Harris Debuts New ‘Wikipedia’ of K–12 Research

As cuts threaten insights into K–12 schools, the veteran researcher is helping to build a compendium of education insights.

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
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Mark Schneider: Blowing Up Ed Research is Easy. Rebuilding it is ‘What Matters’

The former IES and NCES leader speaks candidly about radical cuts to the Education Department, government ‘stasis’ and the uncertain future of NAEP.

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
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NAEP ‘Absolutely’ Needs to Stay, Linda McMahon Says. The Department? Not So Much

Following a speech at ASU+GSV, the education secretary spoke briefly with The 74 about civil rights, dismantling the department and NAEP’s future.

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
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David Zweig Calls COVID School Closures ‘a False Story about Medical Consensus’

New book finds lousy COVID decisions everywhere, with experts basing assertions about the coronavirus virulence on flawed models.

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
School (In)Security
School (In)Security
School (In)Security

‘Spy High:’ Amazon Documentary Probes Dangers of Online Student Surveillance

Filmmaker uses infamous 2010 ‘WebcamGate’ case to examine present-day threats to student privacy and digital policing of marginalized kids.

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber

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U.S. ‘Catastrophically Wrong’ to Separate Early Child Care from Education

In new book, child development expert and social media star Dan Wuori dismantles notion of early child care as a form of 'industrialized' babysitting.

Amanda Geduld
Author: Amanda Geduld

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74 Interview: Teacher of the Year Finalists on Setting Priorities, Changing Policy, and Taking On a More Political Role

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: NovoEd’s Andrew Linford on Blockchain, the Sharing Economy, Student Feedback in the Classroom & Shifting Teacher Mindset

Tim Newcomb
Author: Tim Newcomb
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The 74 Interview: Do Standards and Project-Based Learning Go Hand in Hand? Prof. Nell Duke Says Yes, & Looks at the Best & Worst of PBL

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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74 Interview: Achieve Atlanta’s Tina Fernandez on Doubling the Number of Atlanta Public School Students Graduating From College by 2025

Laura Fay
Author: Laura Fay
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How One Education Leader’s Newark Nonprofit Became One of the Few Minority-Led Groups to Win a $30 Million Federal Grant to Fight Poverty

Mimi Woldeyohannes
Author: Mimi Woldeyohannes
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The 74 Interview: Parkland Teacher, Filmmaker Talk New HBO Documentary on the Shooting, Its Aftermath, and the Musical That ‘Must Go On’

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
National School Choice Week

The 74 Interview: Democrats for Education Reform’s Shavar Jeffries on the Blue Wave, the Politics of the Possible & Grand Bargains

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
Personalized Learning

74 Interview: ‘The City Fund’ Founders Talk About Their New Campaign to Identify America’s Most Innovative Public School Systems and the First Metro Areas Where They’ll Be Investing

Steve Snyder
Author: Steve Snyder
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74 Interview: Integrated Schools Founder on Talking to White Parents About Privilege and Turning Neighborhood Schools Into a Rallying Cry for Integration

Conor P. Williams
Author: Conor P. Williams
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74 Interview: With Political Headwinds Rising, Constance Jones Becomes 1st African-American Woman to Lead Chicago’s Noble Network

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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One-on-One With Lewis Ferebee: New D.C. Schools Chancellor Talks About Why Districts Need to Expand Career & Technical Education for Enrollment, Enlistment, and Employment

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
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The 74 Interview: Sen. Maggie Hassan on Moms in Congress, Advocating for Kids With Disabilities, and Special Ed & Classroom Innovation

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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74 Interview: Former Sacramento School Chief, Author of ‘Wildflowers: A School Superintendent’s Challenge to America,’ on Educating the ‘Whole Child’

Conor P. Williams
Author: Conor P. Williams
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WATCH — America’s Education Priorities for the New School Year: 8 Current & Former Education Chiefs Weigh In on How States & Schools Can Drive Innovation in 2019

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Watch — Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Priorities for a New School Year: As the World Changes Faster Than Our Education Systems, America Risks Being Left Behind

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Building Integrated Classrooms

74 Interview: NYC Schools Chief Richard Carranza Talks Integration, Smart Parents, Renewal Schools, and Quality Assurance Across 1,800 Schools

David Cantor
Author: David Cantor
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74 Interview: Sen. Cory Booker on Teacher Quality, Celebrity Star Power, and Why His Newark School Reforms Were Actually a Success

Laura McKenna
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74 Interview: Journalist Roland Martin Talks His New Digital News Platform, Giving Voice to the Voiceless & Being a School Reformer Since Childhood

Mimi Woldeyohannes
Author: Mimi Woldeyohannes
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Watch — North Carolina’s Jim Hunt on Priorities for a New School Year: Governors Must Realize Their Economies and Classrooms Are Intertwined & Build Bipartisan Support for Boosting Students

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Watch — Former NM Education Chief Hanna Skandera on Priorities for a New School Year: Rethink How Families Are Engaged in District Decisions & How Graduates Are Prepared for Their Next Step
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74 Interview: NewSchools Venture Fund’s Stacey Childress on 20 Years’ (and $300 Million) Worth of School Breakthroughs & What She’s Learned About Supporting Education Innovation

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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Watch — Former NYC Chancellor Joel Klein, on Priorities for a New School Year: Shifting Our Focus From Special Interests to Families & Better Preparing Kids for a Whole New Economy

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Every Student Succeeds Act

The 74 Interview: Harvard’s Karen Mapp on ESSA, Family Engagement, and How Schools and Communities Can Partner to Help Kids Succeed

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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The 74 Interview: Strayer University President Brian Jones on Social Justice, ‘Pragmatic Compromise,’ and Becoming a ‘Thoroughbred’

Andrew J. Rotherham
Author: Andrew J. Rotherham
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Watch — Jeb Bush, on Priorities for a New School Year: America’s Economy Is Being Redefined & Governors Must Lead the Charge in Helping Classrooms Catch Up

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Watch — Marc Sternberg Talks Priorities for a New School Year: Why Governors Must Keep Kids and Their Future Prosperity at the Center of the Ed Debate

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Watch — Margaret Spellings, on America’s Priorities for a New School Year: More Equitable, Affordable Education to Sustain the ‘Innovation Economy’

Jim Fields
Author: Jim Fields
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74 Interview: Longtime Civil Rights Activist Howard Fuller on Trump, DeVos, and What It’s Like to Advocate for School Choice in an Age of ‘Hypocrisy’

Mario Koran
Author: Mario Koran
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74 Interview: Former North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue on Educating a 21st Century Workforce & the ‘Most Horrific Public Discussion’ She Ever Heard

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
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Exit Interview: Camden’s Paymon Rouhanifard Reflects on 5 Years of Surging Student Achievement, Expanding Parental Choice in One of NJ’s Poorest Districts

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
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74 Interview: Criminologist Nadine Connell on Why She’s Building a 30-Year Database of School Shootings — and What Hidden Lessons May Be Found in the Stats

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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74 Interview: Deborah Quazzo on the Business of Education Innovation, the Nation’s Shrinking Skilled Workforce & the GSV Acceleration Fund

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
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74 Interview: Idaho Superintendent Ybarra on Rural Students, Rethinking School Funding, and Why She Opposes Private Choice Bill

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Parent Activist Mary Moran on Engaging Families and Demanding Accountability in New Orleans Schools

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
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74 Interview: ‘Newcomers’ Author Helen Thorpe on a Year in the Life of America’s Refugee Students — and Why Public-Private Partnerships Are Essential

Conor P. Williams
Author: Conor P. Williams
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The 74 Interview: Olympian Alex Rigsby on Winning Gold, Learning Through Sports, and Mentoring 4 Classrooms of Kids

Andrew J. Rotherham
Author: Andrew J. Rotherham
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The 74 Interview: Teacher of the Year and Gun Owner Nate Bowling on Arming Teachers & Keeping Kids Safe in School

Andrew J. Rotherham
Author: Andrew J. Rotherham
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74 Interview: Sal Khan on Personalized Learning, a Global Diploma, and How He’d Spend $100 million

Romy Drucker
Author: Romy Drucker
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74 Interview: Joel Rose on Personalized Learning’s ‘Overdue Transition,’ Building Better Tests — and Meeting Kids Where They Are

Laura Fay
Author: Laura Fay
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74 Interview: Allan Golston on Network Schools, Scaling Solutions to Inequity, and Why Curriculum Matters — and Luck Shouldn’t

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
Personalized Learning

74 Interview: Richard Culatta on How to Do Personalized Learning Well — and Why It Could Be the Key to Narrowing a School’s Equity Gap

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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74 Interview: Massachusetts Education Leader Russell Johnston on Poverty, Improving Special Education & Living Mitchell Chester’s Legacy

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Save the Children’s Mark Shriver on Creating a Powerhouse Lobby for the Powerless

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Two Texas Middle Schoolers on Ending Gun Violence, Seeing the Signs

Kei-Sygh Thomas
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74 Interview: The Rigorous, Not-Easily-Defined Education Reform Philosophy of Harvard’s Jal Mehta

David Cantor
Author: David Cantor
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74 Interview: DACA-mented California Teacher on What Trump’s Immigration Policies Will Do to Undocumented Kids

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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74 Interview: D.C. Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson on Closing the City’s Achievement Gap and How His District Is Unlike Any Other in America

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
Reinventing America's School – Indianapolis

74 Interview: Indiana Educator Earl Phalen on Innovating Classrooms for Low-Income Students of Color — and the NAACP’s ‘Phony’ Charter War

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
Reinventing America's Schools – New Orleans

74 Interview: NOLA Schools Chief on Unifying City Schools and Differing With DeVos on Choice

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
Reinventing America's Schools – Washington D.C.

The 74 Interview: Councilman Vincent C. Gray on Charters, Pre-K, and Rising Tides in D.C. Schools

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Rory Kennedy’s New Documentary Delves Into Digital Divide Hurting America’s Poorest Students

Kathy Moore
Author: Kathy Moore
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74 Interview: Philly’s U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans on Charters, Trump, and School Revitalization

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: How Retired Football Player Wade Smith Has Dedicated His Post-NFL Career to Tackling Bullying and Illiteracy

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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The 74 Interview: Alexis Morin on Students For Education Reform, Youth Power & Achieving Educational Justice

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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74 Interview: David Hardy on Putting Purpose Before Politics and Kids Before Adults in Leading Ohio’s 2nd State-Takeover District

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Michael Lomax, CEO of the United Negro College Fund, on Guiding Low-Income Students Through College

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
Personalized Learning

The 74 Interview: You Don’t Think Your Child Is Average & Harvard’s Todd Rose Doesn’t Either

Romy Drucker
Author: Romy Drucker
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74 Interview: Rick Hess and His 21 Letters

David Cantor
Author: David Cantor
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74 Interview: Catherine Lhamon Takes On Trump With Probe Into Cutbacks on Student Civil Rights

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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74 Interview: Rep. Virginia Foxx on Better Career and Technical Education, ‘An Idea Whose Time Has Come’

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Colorado Rep. (and Gov. Hopeful) Jared Polis on Denver Schools, ESSA & Special Education

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: IDEA Schools COO Irma Muñoz, on Being a Living ‘Proof Point’ for Undocumented Students

Mareesa Nicosia
Author: Mareesa Nicosia
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74 Interview: Harvard’s Fernando Reimers on the Crucial Need to Teach Kids to Be Strong Global Citizens

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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Teacher of the Year Finalist Athanasia Kyriakakos on Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders Through the Arts

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Teacher of the Year Finalist Megan Gross on Embracing Students With Severe Disabilities

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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The 74 Interview: Ulrich Boser on Understanding the Science of Learning

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: NY Education Chief MaryEllen Elia on ESSA, Undocumented Students & Turning Schools Around

Mareesa Nicosia
Author: Mareesa Nicosia
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Teacher of the Year: The First-Ever Charter Honoree Talks Social Justice, Trauma, and Accountability

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Professor Cheryl Fields-Smith on Why More Black Families Are Homeschooling Their Kids

Naomi Nix
Author: Naomi Nix
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74 Interview: Anne Holton on Desegregation, Working the Clinton Campaign, and Fixing Virginia’s Schools

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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74 Interview: Gail Saltz on the Connection Between Learning Disabilities and Genius

Emmeline Zhao
Author: Emmeline Zhao
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74 Interview: Max Eden, His Book About ESSA With Rick Hess, and the Ed Policy Rorschach Test

David Cantor
Author: David Cantor
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74 Interview: John King on His Year as Ed Secretary, the Trump Administration, His New Role at Ed Trust

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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The 74 Interview: Houston Chronicle Reporter on How He Uncovered the Year’s Biggest Education Scandal

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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The 74 Interview: L.A. Education Activist Yolie Flores on Schools, Politics, and Why She’s Running for Congress

Conor P. Williams
Author: Conor P. Williams
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The 74 Interview: Kirabo Jackson on the Importance of School Spending, ‘Soft Skills’ and Teacher Quality

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: New Mexico Education Secretary Hanna Skandera on How Her State Is Turning Around Schools

Kate Stringer
Author: Kate Stringer
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Korman: I Was a Lawyer Volunteer at Dulles Airport When Trump’s Immigration Ban Took Effect

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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The 74 Interview: Denver Schools Chief Talks ‘Trump Effect,’ School Closures and Teacher Performance Pay

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Education, National Security and Donald Trump

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: New Leaders Co-founder Benjamin Fenton on ESSA and How to Develop Better Principals

Naomi Nix
Author: Naomi Nix
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74 Interview: Louisiana Schools Chief John White on ESSA, School Closures and Local Control in NOLA

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: Tennis Great Andre Agassi Serves Up School Buildings to 69 Charters — and Counting

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Jeb Bush — Yes on Choice and Standards, No on Trump and Clinton

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: Obama’s Chief for Black Kids’ Education Reflects on Wins, Work Left Undone

Natasha S. Alford
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74 Interview: Former L.A. Superintendent John Deasy Previews New Initiative to Rethink Juvenile Prisons

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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The 74 Interview: Harvard Education School Dean Jim Ryan Talks School Funding, Vergara and Ed Research

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: RePublic Schools’ Ravi Gupta on the Next Frontier of the Education Reform Wars

Richard Whitmire
Author: Richard Whitmire
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74 Interview: Researcher Susan Dynarski on Boston Charters, Student Poverty, and Data in Education

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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74 Interview: Early Ed Expert Ruby Takanishi on Why K-12 Doesn’t Work Without Pre-K

Conor P. Williams
Author: Conor P. Williams
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74 Q&A: ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed Mohamed Talks About His Arrest, How It Factors Into School Discipline Debate

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
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74 Interview: Prof. Chris Emdin Busts Classroom Myths, Talks ‘White Teachers in the Hood’

Natasha S. Alford
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74 Interview: Senator Lamar Alexander on Keeping ESSA From Becoming The Next Obamacare

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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The 74 Interview: Former Asst. U.S. Education Commish on Race, Reform and Saving Schools

Mareesa Nicosia
Author: Mareesa Nicosia
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74 Interview: Communities In Schools’ Retiring Prez on Helping At-Risk Kids with Love — and Data

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Education Advocate Myrna Castrejon on Building Great Schools for LA’s Poorest Kids

Sarah Favot
Author: Sarah Favot
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74 Interview: Julio Fuentes on Empowering Hispanic Communities to Demand, and Attract, Better Schools

Romy Drucker
Author: Romy Drucker
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The 74 Interview: Prof. Matt Delmont on How Northern Whites Used Busing to Derail School Integration

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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The 74 Interview: DeRay Mckesson, Baltimore Mayoral Candidate and Black Lives Matter Leader

Carolyn Phenicie
Author: Carolyn Phenicie
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74 Interview: Nate Bowling, WA’s Teacher of the Year, on the Surprising Reaction to His ‘Conversation’ Essay

Matt Barnum
Author: Matt Barnum
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