NEPC Archive: All Blogs

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Teacher in a Strange Land: What’s Better Than DEI?

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Nancy Flanagan

August 13, 2025

School Finance 101: Preserving an Educated Future for America (Short Term Plan)

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Bruce D. Baker

August 12, 2025

The Reliable Narrator: Big Lies of Education: Word Gap

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P.L. Thomas

August 11, 2025

ZNetwork: How Charter Schools Promote ‘Development Off the Backs of Children’

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Jeff Bryant

August 8, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Teachers Work in Systems We Did Not Create

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Nancy Flanagan

August 6, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Clay Shirky — Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?

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David Labaree

August 6, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Chall’s Missing STAGES OF READING DEVELOPMENT in the Science of Reading

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Nancy Bailey

August 5, 2025

Janresseger: Trump Undercuts Civil Rights Protection for Students Historically Denied Equal Educational Opportunity

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Jan Resseger

August 4, 2025

Lessons from the Future (of Learning): What Wimbledon Can Teach Us About Who We Are (& Who We're Becoming)

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Sam Chaltain

August 1, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: Acknowledging the ‘Mid-Ness’ of Educational AI (Notes on Tressie McMillan Cottom 2025)

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Neil Selwyn

July 31, 2025

Curmudgucation: What the Free Market Does for Education and Equality

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Peter Greene

July 29, 2025

Code Acts in Education: Learning Brains

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Ben Williamson

July 29, 2025

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Glenn Sacks: I Teach Immigrant Kids in an L.A. High School: Here’s the Truth

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Diane Ravitch

July 28, 2025

Shanker Blog: Science of Reading Laws: Let’s Begin With the Facts

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Esther Quintero, Kayla Reist, and Susan B. Neuman

July 25, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Teacher Tries AI With Student Writing

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Larry Cuban

July 24, 2025

School Finance 101: Preserving an Educated Future for America (Short Term Plan)

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Bruce D. Baker

July 23, 2025

10th Period: Judge Lays Bare Unconstitutional Voucher Program

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Stephen Dyer

July 22, 2025

Second Breakfast: AI Slop Education

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Audrey Watters

July 21, 2025

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop

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Alex Hanna

July 18, 2025

Curmudgucation: AI Is Bad At Grading Essays (Chapter #412,277)

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Peter Greene

July 17, 2025

The Reliable Narrator: The Zombie Politics of Misinformation About Students Reading at Grade Level

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P.L. Thomas

July 15, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Reason We Still Need Conferences

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Nancy Flanagan

July 15, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Public Schooling as Social Welfare

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David Labaree

July 14, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Separation of Church and State: Critical for Public Schools and America!

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Nancy Bailey

July 11, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: Teachers’ Perceptions of GenAI – Some Recurring Observations

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Neil Selwyn

July 10, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Billionaires Budgeting on the Backs of Kids and Families

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Joshua Cowen

July 9, 2025

Curmudgucation: Federal Voucher Bill Is a Boondoggle for the Wealthy

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Peter Greene

July 8, 2025

Second Breakfast: What We Talk About When We Talk About AI in Education

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Audrey Watters

July 7, 2025

Letters from the Future (of Learning): In Wisconsin, a Rural Respite for Learning Has Become a Statewide Haven for Healing

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Sam Chaltain

July 3, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: Big Lies of Education: Growth Mindset and Grit

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P.L. Thomas

July 2, 2025

Janresseger: One Way President Trump Is Trying to Weaken Civil Rights Protection in Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

July 1, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Boys

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Nancy Flanagan

June 30, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Christopher Mims — We Now Know How AI “Thinks” — And It’s Barely Thinking at All

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David Labaree

June 27, 2025

Curmudgucation: AI Does Not Know The Truth

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Peter Greene

June 25, 2025

Progressive Magazine: Are Community Schools the Positive Disruptor Public Education Needs?

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Jeff Bryant

June 24, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Seamy Side of CTE

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Nancy Bailey

June 23, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: More Work for Teacher? The Ironies of GenAI as a Labour-Saving Technology

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Neil Selwyn

June 20, 2025

Second Breakfast: AI is Carceral Ed-Tech

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Audrey Watters

June 18, 2025

Code Acts in Education: Performing AI Literacy

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Ben Williamson

June 17, 2025

Diane Ravitch's Blog: What Can the Federal Government Do to Promote Learning?

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Diane Ravitch

June 16, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: NAEP: A Modest Proposal

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P.L. Thomas

June 9, 2025

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: Calling All Mad Scientists: Reject "AI" as a Framing of Your Work

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Emily M. Bender

June 6, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Vouchers and the Rest of the Right-Wing, Anti-Family Agenda: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

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Joshua Cowen

June 5, 2025

Letters from the Future (of Learning): In North Carolina, a Sea of Oxygen Bubbles Is Spreading Across the State (and auguring a different way of thinking about how people learn . . .)

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Sam Chaltain

June 4, 2025

Curmudgucation: Oh, Bill. Hush.

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Peter Greene

June 3, 2025

Janresseger: Trump Subverts the Values of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion By Manipulating Language

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Jan Resseger

June 2, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Five Things Your Child’s Teacher Accomplished Last Week

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Nancy Flanagan

May 30, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Schools Should Focus on Producing More Hustlers Than Scholars

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David Labaree

May 29, 2025

10th Period: Data: Ohio Vouchers Clearly Unconstitutional

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Stephen Dyer

May 28, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Billionaires’ Love Affair with School Reform without Accountability (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

May 27, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice; Billionaires’ Love Affair With School Reform without Accountability (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

May 23, 2025

Curmudgucation: Are These the Last Days of Public School

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Peter Greene

May 22, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Is This the Final Knockdown of America’s Public Schools?

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Nancy Bailey

May 21, 2025

Janresseger: The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause Remains Central to the Future of Public Education

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Jan Resseger

May 20, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: Buyer Beware: Marketing Education Often an Incomplete Story

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P.L. Thomas

May 19, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Goodbye to the Department of Education

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Nancy Flanagan

May 16, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Schools Are at the Root of the Youth Mental Health Crisis

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David Labaree

May 15, 2025

Curmudgucation: More Culture Panic From Heritage Foundation

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Peter Greene

May 14, 2025

10th Period: Private School Parents Hurt Their Kids by Taking Free Government Money

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Stephen Dyer

May 13, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: We Might Well Need a Digital Backlash in Education … Just Not This One!

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Neil Selwyn

May 12, 2025

Second Breakfast: Computing Versus Democracy

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Audrey Watters

May 9, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Is History and Social Studies Taught in Schools Today?

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Larry Cuban

May 8, 2025

Progressive Magazine: Linda McMahon’s ‘Elegant Gaslighting’ of Democratic Senators

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Jeff Bryant

May 7, 2025

Code Acts in Education: Great Edtech Exhibitions as Futuring Events

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Ben Williamson

May 6, 2025

Janresseger: Trump Says He’ll Fully Return Education to the States: Why That’s a Dangerous Idea

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Jan Resseger

May 5, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: NCLB’s Curse: 12 Reasons Reading Scores Are STILL Poor

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Nancy Bailey

May 2, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: Beware Scripted Curriculum: More Trojan Horse Education Reform

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P.L. Thomas

May 1, 2025

Shanker Blog: How Would Cutting Federal Aid to Schools Affect Student Achievement?

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Bruce D. Baker

April 30, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: McTeaching: Online Instruction

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Larry Cuban

April 29, 2025

Curmudgucation: Scary AI Teacher Coaching Tool

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Peter Greene

April 29, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Diversity, Political Culture and Middle School Band

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Nancy Flanagan

April 25, 2025

10th Period: Mission (Almost) Accomplished

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Stephen Dyer

April 24, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Against the AI Writing Machines

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David Labaree

April 22, 2025

Janresseger: What About that “Dear Colleague” Letter from Trump’s Dept. of Ed. Attacking Schools on Race and Diversity?

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Jan Resseger

April 21, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Buy a Laptop for Every U.S. Student?

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Larry Cuban

April 21, 2025

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: Pushback and Accountability

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Emily M. Bender

April 17, 2025

Second Breakfast: The Plagiarism Machine

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Audrey Watters

April 16, 2025

Curmudgucation: Immigration Arrests at School?

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Peter Greene

April 15, 2025

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Texas: Beware of Vouchers!

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Diane Ravitch

April 14, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: What Does the U.S. Department of Education Do? Enforcing Laws to Protect Students

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Nancy Bailey

April 11, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Diversity and Tracking

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Nancy Flanagan

April 9, 2025

Code Acts in Education: Training and Valuing the Brain Through Neurotechnology

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Ben Williamson

April 9, 2025

Alfie Kohn: The *&%$!#! Baseball Study: Why Are Fans of Fact-Focused Teaching Still Citing a Small, Unconvincing Experiment From the ’80s?

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Alfie Kohn

April 8, 2025

The Left Chapter: Why Education Reformers Will Find a Home in the Trump Administration

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Jeff Bryant

April 7, 2025

10th Period: Ohio's Outrageous Lack of Commitment to Its Public School Students

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Stephen Dyer

April 4, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: River Page — We Don’t Need More Tiger Moms

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David Labaree and River Page

April 3, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: Education Journalism Fails Education (Again): “News Media Often Cater to Panics”

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P.L. Thomas

April 2, 2025

Janresseger: Ohio’s Journey From Public Education to School Privatization

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Jan Resseger

April 1, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: What Teachers Can Do About Pervasive Misinformation (Erica Meltzer)* (Guest Post by Erica Meltzer)

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Erica Meltzer and Larry Cuban

March 30, 2025

Curmudgucation: AI Can't Imagine Future Humanity

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Peter Greene

March 27, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: The Dream of AI Doing Away With School Altogether

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Neil Selwyn

March 25, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Republican Kids in Public Schools Also Lack Mittens

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Nancy Bailey

March 24, 2025

Second Breakfast: AI Foreclosure

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Audrey Watters

March 20, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: How School Reform Deformed Student Learning

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David Labaree

March 20, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Internet’s Effects on Children and Adults: Re-Wired Brain?

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Larry Cuban

March 19, 2025

Curmudgucation: What Is School Choice Week About

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Peter Greene

March 18, 2025

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Tennessee: Legislature Passes Universal Vouchers, State Will Pay for All Students

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Diane Ravitch

March 17, 2025

Janresseger: Big Money Pushes Voucher Expansion But the Public Is Poorly Informed About the Danger

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Jan Resseger

March 13, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Progressivism and Ed Schools — An American Romance

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David Labaree

March 7, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers or Researchers: Whose Judgments about Classroom Practice Matter the Most?

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Larry Cuban

March 6, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: “The Whole Point Is We’re Trying to Teach” – Pedagogical Reflections on AI Grading

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Neil Selwyn

March 5, 2025

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: TFA Touts Some Conclusions of New ‘Meta-Analysis’ But Only the Favorable Ones

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Gary Rubinstein

February 28, 2025

Curmudgucation: Supporting Teachers

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Peter Greene

February 27, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Give the Gift of Removing Reading Pressure on Kindergartners!

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Nancy Bailey

February 27, 2025

Shanker Blog: What Makes High-Quality Afterschool Programming

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Jordan Beal

February 25, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Vouchers by Any Other Name Are Still Vouchers—And Let’s Talk About Fraud

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Joshua Cowen

February 24, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Who ARE These People?

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Nancy Flanagan

February 20, 2025

New York Almanack: The First State of the Union Address

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Alan Singer

February 20, 2025

Code Acts in Education: Piloting Turbocharged Fast AI Policy Experiments in Education

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Ben Williamson

February 19, 2025

Second Breakfast: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Audrey Watters

February 18, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: The “Science of Reading” Ushers in NAEP Reading Decline: Time for a New Story

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P.L. Thomas

February 16, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: David Brooks: Voters to Elites — Do You See Me Now? (Guest Post by David Brooks)

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David Brooks and David Labaree

February 14, 2025

Janresseger: Will Trump’s Education Policies Accelerate Support for School Privatization?

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Jan Resseger

February 13, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Pick Your Metaphor: Is School Reform More Like a Pendulum or a Hurricane?

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Larry Cuban

February 11, 2025

Curmudgucation: AI Is for the Ignorant

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Peter Greene

February 11, 2025

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Tom Ultican: Denver Charter School Study Is Shoddy Research

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Diane Ravitch

February 10, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI and Teachers – A Matter of Time

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Neil Selwyn

February 7, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Sal Khan and AI Reimagined Schools: Questions and Concerns

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Nancy Bailey

February 6, 2025

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Who Is the New CEO of Teach for America?

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Gary Rubinstein

February 5, 2025

Alfie Kohn: Heterogenius Why and How to Stop Dividing People Into Us and Them

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Alfie Kohn

February 4, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Thoughts on the Election, Answering Questions from My Recent PFPS Webinar, and a Renewed Opposition

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Joshua Cowen

February 3, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will AI Transform Teaching and Learning?

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Larry Cuban

January 31, 2025

Second Breakfast: 12 Years and 60 Minutes Later

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Audrey Watters

January 29, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Steven Mintz — Most Kids Find K-12 Education Boring and Stressful (Guest Post by Steven Mintz)

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David Labaree and Steven Mintz

January 28, 2025

Radical Eyes for Equity: “Science” as Bad Faith Bullying

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P.L. Thomas

January 27, 2025

Curmudgucation: Student Surveillance Is Still A Scary Thing

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Peter Greene

January 24, 2025

Teacher in a Strange Land: Weaponizing Empathy and Other Heritage Foundation Rhetoric for School Reform

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Nancy Flanagan

January 23, 2025

Shanker Blog: Reading Policy, the Wind and the Sun

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Esther Quintero

January 22, 2025

Daily Kos: Expect the Right to Tighten Control Over School Curriculum

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Alan Singer

January 21, 2025

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform

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Larry Cuban

January 16, 2025

Janresseger: Who Is Linda McMahon and What Would Be Her Priorities as Education Secretary?

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Jan Resseger

January 16, 2025

Progressive Magazine: Voters Across the Political Spectrum Gave Public Education Important Wins in the 2024 Election

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Jeff Bryant

January 13, 2025

Diane Ravitch's Blog: John Thompson: Will We Ever Get Free of NCLB’s Mandates and Let Teachers Teach?

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Diane Ravitch and John Thompson

January 13, 2025

Josh Cowen's Newsletter:Three Kinds of Voucher Billionaires—and Other Big Questions

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Joshua Cowen

January 10, 2025

Letters from the Future (of Learning): The Good, The Bad & The Ugly In Trump’s “Ten Principles for Great Schools”

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Sam Chaltain

January 9, 2025

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI … Minding Our Language

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Neil Selwyn

January 8, 2025

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How Assessment and Data are Used to Stigmatize Children as Failing

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Nancy Bailey

January 7, 2025

Second Breakfast: The State of the "Art"

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Audrey Watters

January 5, 2025

Citizen Jack: Senator Rubio’s Ideas on Science: Should We Be Concerned?

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Jack Hassard

January 3, 2025

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Teacher Persona

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David Labaree

January 1, 2025

School Finance 101: Defining Productivity, Cost, and Efficiency

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Bruce D. Baker

December 23, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Critical Keywords of AI in Education

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Ben Williamson

December 23, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: I’m a Gen Z Teacher: Schools Rely Too Much on Chromebooks (Skyler Graham) (Guest post by Skyler Graham)

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Skyler Graham and Larry Cuban

December 20, 2024

Curmudgucation: When Schools Are Businesses

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Peter Greene

December 19, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: In Praise of Social Studies

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Nancy Flanagan

December 17, 2024

Janresseger: Voucher Explosion Threatens Funding for Public Schools that Serve 90% of Ohio Students

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Jan Resseger

December 16, 2024

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: And Now for Some Good News!

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Joshua Cowen

December 13, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Grading Students: A High School Teacher Challenges the System

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Larry Cuban

December 12, 2024

Shanker Blog: Out of School But in a Book: Leveraging the Socio-Cultural Aspects of Reading

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Jordan Beal and Kayla Reist

December 11, 2024

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter: ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom

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Emily M. Bender

December 10, 2024

Curmudgucation: Computers And Defective Children

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Peter Greene

December 9, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Work Hard. Be Nice. Or Don’t.

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Nancy Flanagan

December 6, 2024

Janresseger: The Dangerous Values Underneath the Politics of School Choice

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Jan Resseger

December 5, 2024

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: My Address to the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard University

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Joshua Cowen

December 3, 2024

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: A Look Back: Feds Find in New Report That Most of Their Funded “Innovations” Didn’t Work – Perhaps Its Time to Fund Teacher Initiatives?

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Larry Ferlazzo

December 2, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: High Tech Devices: Addiction, Dependency, or Hype?

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Larry Cuban

November 26, 2024

Curmudgucation: Even in a Red Wave, Voters Reject School Vouchers

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Peter Greene

November 26, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Nine Reasons Why Standardized Tests and Grades Shouldn’t Necessarily Match Up

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Nancy Flanagan

November 25, 2024

Janresseger: Doomed to Fail: New Report Examines Educational Instability Due to Charter School Closure Rate

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Jan Resseger

November 22, 2024

Shanker Blog: Digital Technology and the Reading Brain: What Reading Legislation Overlooks

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Esther Quintero and Kayla Reist

November 21, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Questioning the Classroom Impact of Neuroscience and the Science of Reading

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Nancy Bailey

November 20, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Proposed: NCTE Resolution Statement on Teacher Autonomy

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P.L. Thomas

November 18, 2024

Letters from the Future (of Learning): Across the United States, A New Form of Education System Starts to Spread

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Sam Chaltain

November 18, 2024

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: Claims That ‘AI Can Replace Teachers’ Betray a Very Poor Understanding of Teachers’ Work

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Neil Selwyn

November 15, 2024

Josh Cowen's Newsletter: Beware State Education Departments Pushing School Voucher Schemes

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Joshua Cowen

November 14, 2024

Progressive Magazine: How a Struggling Boston School Found Success in the Roots of its Haitian American Community

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Jeff Bryant

November 13, 2024

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: A Look Back: What I Think Artificial Intelligence Will Do – & What It Won’t Do – In K-12 Education

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Larry Ferlazzo

November 12, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Critical Edtech Gets a Conference

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Ben Williamson

November 11, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Fixing Public Schools Again and Again

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Larry Cuban

November 8, 2024

Janresseger: Kamala Harris’s and Donald Trump’s Education Policies Radically Contrast

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Jan Resseger

November 7, 2024

Curmudgucation: AZ: Fighting For Less Accountability for Taxpayer Funds

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Peter Greene

November 6, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: High Schoolers Need to Do Less So That They Can Do Better (Tim Donahue) (Guest Post by Tim Donahue)

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Tim Donahue and Larry Cuban

November 5, 2024

Janresseger: Voucher Programs Prove Again and Again What We Already Know

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Jan Resseger

November 4, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Are You an Instruction Geek?

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Nancy Flanagan

November 1, 2024

Curmudgucation: Why Do State Report Cards Stink

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Peter Greene

October 31, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cash Incentives to Improve Schooling

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Larry Cuban

October 30, 2024

Shanker Blog: A Legislator’s Lessons From Fifth Graders

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Becca Rausch

October 29, 2024

Janresseger: How Billionaires Bought College Departments, Set Up Think Tanks, Fostered White Nationalism, and Ignored the Evidence to Promote School Vouchers

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Jan Resseger

October 28, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: What Do Parents Know About Public Education?

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Nancy Flanagan

October 24, 2024

Curmudgucation: Are Grade Level Texts the Magical Cure? (The Ghost of Common Core)

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Peter Greene

October 23, 2024

10th Period: Chickens Coming Home to Roost

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Stephen Dyer

October 21, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Need Help!

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Nancy Bailey

October 20, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can I Use A.I. to Grade My Students’ Papers? (Kwame Anthony Appiah) (Guest Post by Kwame Anthony Appiah)

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Kwame Anthony Appiah and Larry Cuban

October 18, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Why Has Education Reform Always Failed?: “Straightforward Solutions to Complicated Questions”

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P.L. Thomas

October 17, 2024

Shanker Blog: New Hampshire’s Divisive Concepts Law Was Ruled Unconstitutional, Sending a Message to the Nation

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Deb Howes

October 16, 2024

Janresseger: Erasing the Line that Separates Church and State in Education

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Jan Resseger

October 15, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Critical Issues and Minutiae of Public Education

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Nancy Flanagan

October 14, 2024

Curmudgucation: Cato's Failed Argument Against Public School

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Peter Greene

October 11, 2024

10th Period: Vouchers, Like Their Advocates, Move to the 'Burbs

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Stephen Dyer

October 10, 2024

Letters from the Future of Learning: Why Education Will Not Be Saved by Chatbots

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Sam Chaltain

October 8, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Why We’re Banning Phones at Our School (Russell Shaw)* (Guest Post by Russell Shaw)

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Russell Shaw and Larry Cuban

October 8, 2024

Alfie Kohn: Less and Less Curious

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Alfie Kohn

October 7, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Madness of EdTech: All or Nothing Options (Guest Post by Emily Cherkin)

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Emily Cherkin and Nancy Bailey

October 4, 2024

Shanker Blog: Tackling Chronic Absenteeism Is a Crucial Investment in the Future (Guest Post by Kate Suchomel and Jim Davnie)

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October 3, 2024

Janresseger: New Report Documents Obstacles to Educational Opportunity for Young Black Men

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October 2, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: How People Vote. How People Choose a “Good” School. Is it Common Sense?

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October 1, 2024

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September 30, 2024

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September 27, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Automated Austerity Schooling

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September 26, 2024

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: Facing up to the Environmental Impact of EdTech

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September 25, 2024

10th Period: Vouchers' Race Problem Persists

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September 24, 2024

Letters from the Future (of Learning): In the Machine Age, What Makes Us Human?

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September 23, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Who Is Responsible for Learning? An Enduring Puzzle

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September 20, 2024

Janresseger: Stunning New Report on Who Is Funding the Culture Wars to Undermine Support for Public Schooling

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September 19, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Triumph of Efficiency over Effectiveness — in Both Public Health and Public Schooling

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September 18, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Just Who is Trashing Public Education?

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Nancy Flanagan

September 16, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Literacy Standards or “Merely Pass[Ing] Along Adult Weariness”?

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P.L. Thomas

September 16, 2024

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September 13, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom High-Tech Devices and School Reform Are Kissing Cousins

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September 12, 2024

Jersey Jazzman: Student "Growth" Measures Are STILL Biased

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September 11, 2024

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Illustrative Math: The New Curriculum That Nearly Every Algebra Teacher in NYC Has to Start Using This Fall and Why It Is Destined to Flop

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September 10, 2024

School Finance 101: Time to Rein in Vouchers

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September 9, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Genetic IQ Tests Are Bad Science and Big Business

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September 6, 2024

10th Period: David Pepper and I Talk Vouchers

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September 5, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Project 2025: Ending Public Education for Students with Disabilities

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September 3, 2024

Janresseger: What Is Project 2025 and How Would It Reshape the Federal Role in Public Education?

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September 3, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Dynamic Tension at the Core of the Grammar of Schooling

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August 30, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: What Schools SHOULD Be Teaching

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August 29, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Comprehension Problem with New Reading Programs: Ignoring the Books Children LIKE to Read!

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August 28, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: “Science of” Movements as Trojan Horse Education Reform

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August 27, 2024

Janresseger: The Civil Rights Violations Posed by the Closure of Neighborhood Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

August 26, 2024

Curmudgucation: Universal Vouchers and Privatization

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August 23, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: What Schools SHOULD Be Teaching

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August 22, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Researching How U.S. Teachers Teach

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August 21, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Politics and Markets: The Enduring Dynamics of the US System of Schooling

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August 20, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Ask When Children Should Begin to Read

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August 19, 2024

Janresseger: Neoliberal Reform Still Infects Education Policy: Good Reporting Helps Advocates Pay Attention

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August 16, 2024

Letters from the Future (of Learning): To See the “Educational Elephant,” We Must Stop Being the Six Blind Men

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August 15, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: A Semi-Elderly Teacher’s Reflection on the Digital World and Education

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August 14, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Third Grade Retention: The Fool’s Gold of Reading Reform

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August 13, 2024

Progressive Magazine: How Charter Schools Became Politically Isolated

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August 12, 2024

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Arizona: Universal Vouchers Are a Handout to the Wealthy

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August 9, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Polygenic Scores as Political Technologies in Educational Genomics

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August 8, 2024

10th Period: Per Pupil Charter Funding Skyrockets

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August 7, 2024

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August 6, 2024

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August 5, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Gift That Never Stops Giving–Being a Teacher*

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July 26, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Peter Gray: The Toxic Consequences of Attending a High-Achieving School

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July 25, 2024

Janresseger: States Persistently Fail to Invest Enough in Their Public Schools

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July 24, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Reports Show How Phonics Crowds Out Quality Reading Like Picture Books

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Nancy Bailey

July 23, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Ignoring the Real World in the Classroom

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July 22, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: The “Science Of” Era of Education Reform: Rearranging Chairs on the Deck of the Titanic (Again)

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July 11, 2024

Letters from the Future (of Learning): The Future of A.I. is . . . I.A.?

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July 10, 2024

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July 10, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Oblongification of Education

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July 9, 2024

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: Start Where the Pain Is: Notes on Topic-Selection in Technology Studies (Vinsel 2024)

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July 8, 2024

10th Period: It's Official: Ohio Leaders Hosing Public School Kids Today Worse Than Ever

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July 3, 2024

Naked Capitalism: Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement

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July 2, 2024

Education in Two Worlds: Class Notes: Relationship of Education Policy to Education Research and Social Science

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July 1, 2024

Curmudgucation: Stop Calling It School Choice

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June 28, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Historians Help School Reformers?

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June 27, 2024

Hullabaloo: Living History: Reggie Jackson Takes Sports Fans to School

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June 25, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Winning Ways of a Losing Strategy: Educationalizing Social Problems in the US

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June 24, 2024

Janresseger: Seventy Years After “Brown v. Board” Decision, School Segregation Keeps Growing

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June 21, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Stuck on the Merry-Go-Round of Bad Ed. Policy for 40 Years!

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June 20, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Return of the Tradteacher

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June 18, 2024

Curmudgucation: Failing Charters Go Private

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June 17, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Every Tech Tool in Classrooms Needs Ruthless Scrutiny (Jessica Grose) (Guest post by Jessica Grose)

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June 14, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: School’s Shift from Community to Competition Can Harm Our Youth

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June 13, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: What about Homeschooling?

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June 12, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: There’s Too Much Stuff on Classroom Walls!

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Nancy Bailey

June 11, 2024

Janresseger: Press Reports Ranking American High Schools Mislead the Public

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June 10, 2024

Curmudgucation: Something Else AI "Teachers" Can't Do

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June 7, 2024

Letters from the Future (of Learning): What is Childhood For?

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June 6, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Reform We Refuse to Choose

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June 5, 2024

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Carol Burris: New Data Show That Charter Schools Increase Segregation

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June 4, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Fraught Connection Between State and School

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June 3, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Real Schools Need Books, Not Laptops or Cell Phones (James Traub) (Guest Post by James Traub)

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May 31, 2024

Alfie Kohn: The Siren Song of “Evidence-Based” Instruction

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May 30, 2024

Janresseger: State Support for Pre-Kindergarten Is Another Victim As Vouchers Drain State Tax Dollars

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Jan Resseger

May 29, 2024

Shanker Blog: How Do Vouchers Defund Public Schools? Four Warnings and One Big Takeaway

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May 28, 2024

Curmudgucation: A Voucher By Any Other Name

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May 24, 2024

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Should the Success Academy SPRINT Program Be Investigated?

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May 23, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Edtech Has an Evidence Problem

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May 22, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Where’s the “Evidence” in State-Mandated Science of Reading Programs?

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Nancy Bailey

May 21, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Too Easy a Target: The Trouble with Ed Schools and the Implications for the University

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David Labaree

May 20, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Woke/Not Woke

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Nancy Flanagan

May 17, 2024

Curmudgucation: Curriculum as the Next Reformy Frontier

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May 16, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Get Tech Out of Classrooms - Some Parents Say (Jessica Grose) (Guest Post by Jessica Grose)

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May 15, 2024

Janresseger: Today’s Bitter Divide—in Our Society and in Our Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

May 14, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Another Cautionary Tale of Education Reform: “Improving Teaching Quality to Compensate for Socio-Economic Disadvantages: A Study of Research Dissemination Across Secondary Schools in England”

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P.L. Thomas

May 13, 2024

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Samuel Abrams Is Stepping Down at the National Center on the Study of Privatization in Education

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May 10, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Can Early Academic Pressure Cause Learning Disabilities?

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Nancy Bailey

May 9, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Let’s Measure What No One Teaches

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David Labaree

May 7, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Trust (Pandemic, Day #1475)

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Nancy Flanagan

May 6, 2024

Curmudgucation: School Choice Movement Fissures (2024 Edition)

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Peter Greene

May 3, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Blame for Low Student Achievement Shifted from Family to School

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Larry Cuban

May 2, 2024

Janresseger: Education Philanthropists Respond When Challenged to Increase Investment in Projects for Racial Justice in Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

May 2, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Schools Are Using Research to Try to Improve Children’s Learning – But It’s Not Working (The Conversation)

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P.L. Thomas

May 1, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: DIS-Information in Schools

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Nancy Flanagan

April 30, 2024

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Public Ed Threat Behind the Knowledge Building Curriculum

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Nancy Bailey

April 29, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: When Is School the Answer to What Social Problems?

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David Labaree

April 26, 2024

Curmudgucation: Heritage Foundation Versus Immigrant Children

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Peter Greene

April 25, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Do Screens Help Kids Learn? (Jessica Grose) (Guest Post by Jessica Grose)

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April 24, 2024

Janresseger: Public Education Budgets at State and Federal Levels Leave K-12 Public Schools in Hard Times

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Jan Resseger

April 23, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Education Journalism and Education Reform as Industry

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P.L. Thomas

April 22, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Woke/Not Woke

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April 19, 2024

Curmudgucation: The Panic Is No Accident

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April 18, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will Chatbots Teach Your Children? (Natasha Singer) (Guest Post by Natasha Singer)

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April 17, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Racing, Striving, Accelerating, Winning. And Reading.

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Nancy Flanagan

April 16, 2024

Janresseger: America Neglects to Address the Big Problems for Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

April 15, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Big Lies of Education: National Reading Panel (NRP)

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P.L. Thomas

April 12, 2024

Curmudgucation: TX: Using Computers To Make STAAR Test Worse

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April 11, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Why Do School Reforms Occur Again and Again?

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Larry Cuban

April 10, 2024

Education Technology Society: Digital Technologies and the Commercialism of Education

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April 9, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Do Core Democratic Values Belong in Schools? Some Say No.

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Nancy Flanagan

April 8, 2024

Janresseger: How Committed Are Each State’s Leaders to Democratically Governed Public Schools?

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Jan Resseger

April 5, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: “Back to Basics” Again! What Does it Mean for Students and Teachers?

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Nancy Bailey

April 4, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Contrarian Truths About Public Education and Student Achievement

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P.L. Thomas

April 3, 2024

Code Acts in Education: Saliva Samples and Social Policy

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Ben Williamson

April 1, 2024

Curmudgucation: Voucher Bankruptcy's Feature Future

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Peter Greene

March 28, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Mayoral Control of Urban Public Schools?

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Larry Cuban

March 27, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Star Tech: The Next Generation of Record-Keeping

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Nancy Flanagan

March 26, 2024

Janresseger: Who Redefined Teaching as the Production of High Test Scores and Who Taught Us to Believe in the Myth of the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations?

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Jan Resseger

March 25, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Student Differentiation v. Alignment: Know the Difference and Set Children Free

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Nancy Bailey

March 22, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Close Reading: Social In/Justice and the Deficit Foundations of Oracy, Ian Cushing

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P.L. Thomas

March 21, 2024

Shanker Blog: School District Fragmentation, Segregation, and Funding Equity in New Jersey

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March 20, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Chronic Failure of Curriculum Reform

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David Labaree

March 19, 2024

Progressive Magazine: The Right’s Long Game to End Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

March 18, 2024

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Why Don’t Success Academy High School Students Take Any Advanced Regents Exams?

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Gary Rubinstein

March 15, 2024

Alfie Kohn: Cognitive Load Theory: An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction

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Alfie Kohn

March 12, 2024

Daily Kos: Beware the Jabberwocky: NEPC Report Calls for Halt in Use of AI in Schools

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Alan Singer

March 11, 2024

Code Acts in Education: AI in Education is a Public Problem

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Ben Williamson

March 6, 2024

Curmudgucation: Unbundling and Dismantling

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Peter Greene

March 5, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Most Important Trait for Teachers To Have (Guy Brandenburg)

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March 4, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: “My Research is Better than Your Research” Wars

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Nancy Flanagan

March 1, 2024

Janresseger: Can Support for Neighborhood Public Schools in Chicago Be Restored When School Choice and Charters Have Become an Entitlement for the Wealthy?

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Jan Resseger

February 29, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: 18 Issues for Ed. Secretary Cardona to Better Drive the School Bus

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Nancy Bailey

February 28, 2024

Curmudgucation: AZ: Reining In The Vouchers

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Peter Greene

February 27, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Open Space Offices and Open Space Schools: Corporate Influence on Educating U.S. Students?

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Larry Cuban

February 26, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Mental Energy of Teaching

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Nancy Flanagan

February 23, 2024

Janresseger: What to Do About the Surge in Student Absenteeism?

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Jan Resseger

February 22, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Science of Reading and EL Education: What Is It?

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Nancy Bailey

February 21, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: From Stereotypes to Policy: Understanding the Relationship Between Media and Education

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P.L. Thomas

February 20, 2024

Shanker Blog: How the Fairness of State Tax Codes Affects Public Education (Guest Post by Carl Davis)

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Carl Davis

February 19, 2024

Curmudgucation: Choice v. Social Justice and Equity

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Peter Greene

February 16, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Long Does It Take To Become a “Good” Teacher Using the “Churn and Burn” Model?

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Larry Cuban

February 15, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Do Parents Really Want Control Over What Students Learn?

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Nancy Flanagan

February 14, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Sermon on Educational Research

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David Labaree

February 13, 2024

Janresseger: Cutting Through the Culture War Distractions to Preserve Public Education

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Jan Resseger

February 12, 2024

Curmudgucation: Grade Retention Sleight of Hand

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February 9, 2024

Answer Sheet: Kentucky Judge Rules State Charter School Law Is Unconstitutional

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Valerie Strauss

February 8, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Chatbots Are Forcing Teachers To Confront the Promise and Peril of AI (Molly Roberts)

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February 7, 2024

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Will The Real Recess Stand Up? It’s NOT Playworks, Phys. Ed., Meditating, or Brain Breaks!

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Nancy Bailey

February 6, 2024

Sherman Dorn: Education Has a Learn and Hungry Look

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Sherman Dorn

February 5, 2024

Janresseger: Public Schools: Our Essential Democratic Institution

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Jan Resseger

February 2, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Research Roundup January 2024 [Updated]

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P.L. Thomas

February 1, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Public Education Deserves Better Journalism in 2024: Reading Edition

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P.L. Thomas

January 31, 2024

Curmudgucation: Universal Vouchers Unmask True Goals

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Peter Greene

January 30, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: What Happens When “Choice” Schemes Mature

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Nancy Flanagan

January 29, 2024

Answer Sheet: How Did This Charter School Get a Nearly $2 Million Federal Grant?

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January 26, 2024

Shanker Blog: Comprehensive Reading Curricula and Teacher Expertise: We Don’t Have to Choose (Guest Post by Kate Solow)

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Kata Solow

January 25, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Historic Struggle to Marry Content and Pedagogy: The Case of the Sciences

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Larry Cuban

January 24, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: Media Misreads Reading Science (Again)

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P.L. Thomas

January 23, 2024

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Sam Wineburg: The Lies That Advertisers Tell Students

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Diane Ravitch

January 22, 2024

Letters from the Future (of Learning): At This School in Providence, the Community Is the Campus

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Sam Chaltain

January 19, 2024

Sherman Dorn: American Education Is a Tilted Ecology

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Sherman Dorn

January 18, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: UK PISA 2022 Results Offer Cautionary Tale for Us Reading Reform

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P.L. Thomas

January 16, 2024

Janresseger: 2023: The Year School Vouchers Became an Entitlement for Wealthy Children

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Jan Resseger

January 12, 2024

10th Period: Ohio's Disastrous Voucher Explosion

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January 11, 2024

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Teaching Algebra to 2nd Graders: Rigor or Torture?

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January 10, 2024

Radical Eyes for Equity: What I Believe: Education Reform (And SOR) Edition

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P.L. Thomas

January 9, 2024

Curmudgucation: VAM: Why Is This Zombie Policy Still Around?

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Peter Greene

January 8, 2024

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers as Micro-Politicians: Class DoJo

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Larry Cuban

January 5, 2024

Teacher in a Strange Land: Eight Ways We Are Underestimating the Impact of the Pandemic on Public Education

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Nancy Flanagan

January 4, 2024

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Public Schooling as Social Welfare

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David Labaree

January 3, 2024

Curmudgucation: Rules and Charter Innovation (A Paired Text Exercise)

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Peter Greene

January 2, 2024

Janresseger: The Plight of the Poorest Students in America’s Public Schools Is Hidden in Plain Sight

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Jan Resseger

December 22, 2023

Answer Sheet: Is the New Handwringing Over Grade Inflation Inflated?

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December 21, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Ignored Truth About Reading Proficiency in the US

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P.L. Thomas

December 20, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Covid School Closures and Reliance on Remote Instruction: Boon, Bust, or a Peek into the Future?

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Larry Cuban

December 19, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Where’s Evidence From The Reading League’s Corporate Sponsors?

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Nancy Bailey

December 18, 2023

Forbes: Economist Douglas Harris Makes the Free Market Argument Against Vouchers

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Peter Greene

December 15, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Talking About Public Education: The Good, the Deceptive, and the Destructive

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Nancy Flanagan

December 14, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Tests Lie

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Steven Singer

December 13, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Life on the Margins: Why Teacher Ed Has So Little Impact on Ed Policy

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David Labaree

December 12, 2023

LA Progressive: How Right-Wing Brainchild ‘Universal School Vouchers’ Blow Through State Budgets

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Jeff Bryant

December 11, 2023

Janresseger: New Book Contrasts What Voucher Proponents Promise to the Inequitable Results

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Jan Resseger

December 8, 2023

Answer Sheet: Rethinking the Way Teachers Assign Student Grades

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December 7, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “Transform” Schools: Hyped Language Weakens Reform

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Larry Cuban

December 6, 2023

Curmudgucation: Microschools for Dummies

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December 5, 2023

Shanker Blog: Celebrate Family Engagement All Year Round (Guest post by Sarah Johnson)

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December 4, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Education Lies That Won’t Die: Teacher Value

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December 1, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: A Few Thoughts About Teacher Evaluations Without Testing Data

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November 30, 2023

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Grade Retention is Unnecessary!

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November 29, 2023

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Adam Grant: What We Can Learn From International Assessments

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Diane Ravitch

November 28, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: School Gave Me the Creeps

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David Labaree

November 27, 2023

Alfie Kohn: Aggressive Nostalgia: The Dark Side of Pining for the Good Old Days

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Alfie Kohn

November 22, 2023

Code Acts in Education: The Power of Edtech Investors in Education

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Ben Williamson

November 21, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Teaching in Pennsylvania’s Unconstitutional School Funding System

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Steven Singer

November 20, 2023

Curmudgucation: Let's Just Test All The Damned Year

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Peter Greene

November 17, 2023

Janresseger: Research Shows State School District Report Cards Do Not Measure the Quality of Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

November 16, 2023

Answer Sheet: The Big Problems With College and K-12 School Rankings

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Valerie Strauss and Harry Feder

November 15, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: If You Don’t Want Teachers to be Saviors, Don’t Put Them on a Cross

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Steven Singer

November 14, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Students Taking Timed Tests (Adam Grant) (Guest Post by Adam Grant)

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Adam Grant

November 10, 2023

Curmudgucation: How Vouchers Bust State Budgets

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Peter Greene

November 9, 2023

LA Progressive: Community Schools Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis

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Jeff Bryant

November 8, 2023

Janresseger: Ohio Has a New Universal Voucher Program, and the Problems Are Already Starting

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Jan Resseger

November 7, 2023

Answer Sheet: Why a New Attack on Small Class Size Doesn’t Add Up

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Valerie Strauss and Leonie Haimson

November 3, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Forty Years of Failure: When Caricature Drives Education Reform in Post-Truth America

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P.L. Thomas

November 2, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Games U.S. News & World Report Best High School Ranking

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Gary Rubinstein

November 1, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: If You Don’t Want Teachers to be Saviors, Don’t Put Them on a Cross

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Steven Singer

October 31, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Unstoppable Search for “Successful” Teaching In U.S. Schools

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Larry Cuban

October 30, 2023

Curmudgucation: Yes, Engage

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Peter Greene

October 27, 2023

Janresseger: Important New Publication Explores How Inadequate School Funding is Intertwined With Race and Segregation

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Jan Resseger

October 26, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: There IS Such a Thing as a Free Lunch – A Good Thing.

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Nancy Flanagan

October 25, 2023

Answer Sheet: A Program to Cut School Suspensions in Chicago Worked Very, Very Well. Here’s How.

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Valerie Strauss and David Kirp

October 24, 2023

LA Progressive: Why Do Some Schools Excel at Addressing Student Mental Health Needs?

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Jeff Bryant

October 23, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Will KIPP NYC Be Disqualified (Again) From U.S. News & World Report Best High School Rankings?

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Gary Rubinstein

October 20, 2023

Ed in the Apple: The Long Road: Can “Performance Tasks,” or, “Projects” Replace Standard Testing as Assessment and Accountability Metrics?

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Peter Goodman

October 19, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: The Hidden Bias Against Male Teachers

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Steven Singer

October 18, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Technology Might Be Making Schooling Worse (Antero Garcia) (Guest Post by Antero Garcia)

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Antero Garcia

October 17, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Moving Beyond the Cult of Pedagogy in Education Reform

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P.L. Thomas

October 16, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Little-Discussed Reasons Why Students Might Not Like to Read

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Nancy Bailey

October 13, 2023

Curmudgucation: Questions for Voucher Supporters

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Peter Greene

October 12, 2023

Janresseger: As School Reform Devolves to the States, Public Schools Face Unrelenting, Far Right Opposition

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Jan Resseger

October 11, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Teachers and Students Think about and Use A.I. (Natasha Singer) (Guest post by Natasha Singer)

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Larry Cuban and Natasha Singer

October 6, 2023

Answer Sheet: How to Fix the Damage Done to Schools by Federal School Reform Laws

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Valerie Strauss, Ashley J. Carey, Rachel S. White, Derek Gottlieb, and Andy Saultz

October 5, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: The War Against Icebreakers

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Nancy Flanagan

October 4, 2023

10th Period: All But 5 Ohio Charter High Schools Rank in Bottom 25% of Schools Nationally

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Stephen Dyer

October 3, 2023

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Heather Cox Richardson: The Lies Embedded in Florida’s Social Studies Curriculum

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Diane Ravitch

October 2, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: 10 Years Later: The Continuing Intentional Unraveling of America’s Public Schools

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Nancy Bailey

September 29, 2023

Curmudgucation: Feds Tells SCOTUS To Let Charter School Remain Public

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Peter Greene

September 28, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Paradox of Fostering Community Norms in the Classroom in an Era of Indoctrination Histrionics

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P.L. Thomas

September 27, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Policymakers Err Time and Again about Classroom Teaching

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Larry Cuban

September 26, 2023

Janresseger: Can We Unlearn the Test-and-Punish Lexicon No Child Left Behind Taught Us and Demand Reform?

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Jan Resseger

September 25, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Learning to Read in Middle School

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Nancy Flanagan

September 22, 2023

Answer Sheet: The Big Problem(s) With Grades

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Valerie Strauss, Jack Schneider, and Ethan Hutt

September 21, 2023

Progressive Magazine: How Community Schools Can Transform Parent Involvement for the Better

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Jeff Bryant

September 20, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Dysfunctional Pursuit of Relevance in Educational Research

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David Labaree

September 19, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: A New Low for TFA: Some Trainees Only Get About 11 Hours of Student Teaching.

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Gary Rubinstein

September 18, 2023

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Florida: Vouchers Pay for TVs, Disney Passes, and Water Sports

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Diane Ravitch

September 15, 2023

10th Period: Vouchers Keeping Public School Kids Starved of Funding

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Stephen Dyer

September 14, 2023

Curmudgucation: Advocacy, Journalism, and the Science of Reading

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Peter Greene

September 13, 2023

Ed in the Apple: A Magic Bullet: The Key to Teaching Children How to Read

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Peter Goodman

September 12, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Is Mississippi Shifting to Online Teacher Education with Reading Universe?

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Nancy Bailey

September 11, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Parents Saying No to Smartphones (Olivia Reingold) (Guest Post by Olivia Reingold)

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Larry Cuban and Olivia Reingold

September 8, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Things That Make Teachers Go Hmmm

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Nancy Flanagan

September 7, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Teaching Blind Obedience is Child Abuse

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Steven Singer

September 6, 2023

Janresseger: New Oklahoma Religious Charter School Will Once Again Test the Constitution’s Protection of the Separation of Church and State

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Jan Resseger

September 5, 2023

Curmudgucation: Teach for America Is Rebranding Again (Again)

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Peter Greene

September 1, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Problem-Solving Through Play: What Children Miss With Age-Inappropriate Expectations

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Nancy Bailey

August 31, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Holding Kids Back

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Nancy Flanagan

August 30, 2023

Code Acts in Education: Degenerative AI in Education

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Ben Williamson

August 29, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Schools Reduce Obesity in Children and Youth?

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Larry Cuban

August 28, 2023

Answer Sheet: New Breed of Charter School Pushes Limits on Separation of Church, State

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Valerie Strauss

August 25, 2023

Letters from the Future (of Learning): With Generative A.I., We are Frogs in the Pot

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Sam Chaltain

August 24, 2023

Shanker Blog: Demystifying the Science of Reading

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Esther Quintero

August 23, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Efforts to Legalize Child Labor Are the Next Logical Step After Corporate Education Reform

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Steven Singer

August 22, 2023

Janresseger: 10 Reasons Why Matt Huffman’s Proposed Ohio Voucher Explosion Is So Dangerous

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Jan Resseger

August 21, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Critically Reconsidering Teacher Education (and NCTQ’s Shoddy Reports): A Reader

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P.L. Thomas

August 18, 2023

Z/Our Schools: Right-Wing Indoctrination in Charter Schools at Taxpayer Expense

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Jeff Bryant

August 17, 2023

Curmudgucation: Would Legalizing Discrimination Improve Education

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Peter Greene

August 16, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Can a State Reading Program Be a Success if Students Are Segregated and Hungry?

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Nancy Bailey

August 15, 2023

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Arizona: Vouchers Might Bankrupt the State

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Diane Ravitch

August 14, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: What Feeds Bias in Education World?

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Nancy Flanagan

August 10, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Will ChatGPT Alter How Teachers Teach?

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Larry Cuban

August 9, 2023

Janresseger: Orwellian Language and the Moral Perversion of American Politics

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Jan Resseger

August 8, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Simon Sarris: School Is Not Enough

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David Labaree

August 7, 2023

Code Acts in Education: PedagoGPT

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Ben Williamson

August 3, 2023

Answer Sheet: What It Really Takes to Help Students Succeed

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Kate Somerville

August 2, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Mainstream Media Fails Educational Research (Still)

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P.L. Thomas

August 1, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: When the Last Real Teacher Says Goodbye: The Dangerous Myths Driving Their Exit

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Nancy Bailey

July 31, 2023

Janresseger: Public Funding for Private Education Is Not Useful to Students in Most Rural Areas and Small Towns

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Jan Resseger

July 28, 2023

Shanker Blog: Rethinking the Revenue Side of the K-12 Funding Equation

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Matthew Di Carlo

July 27, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers as Both the Problem and Solution to Improved Schooling: The Perpetual Paradox

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Larry Cuban

July 26, 2023

The Hill: Social Science Explains Why K-12 Integration Efforts Should Continue

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Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

July 25, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Disaster Capitalists Try Ending the Teacher Exodus by Erasing Experienced Educators

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Steven Singer

July 24, 2023

Curmudgucation: Do Vouchers Make Babies?

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Peter Greene

July 21, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Would You Recognize a Good Lesson If You Saw It?

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Nancy Flanagan

July 20, 2023

Answer Sheet: Gaslighting Americans About Public Schools: The Truth About ‘A Nation at Risk’

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Valerie Strauss and James Harvey

July 19, 2023

Progressive Magazine: What’s Behind the State Takeover of Houston’s Schools

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Jeff Bryant

July 18, 2023

Sam Chaltain: In Finland, the Future of Learning Has Arrived -- Just Not Where You Think

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Sam Chaltain

July 17, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Attrition Worse Than Ever

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Gary Rubinstein

July 14, 2023

Stories from School AZ: Juggling Glass Cups, Plastic Balls, and Ghosts

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Yolanda Wheelington

July 13, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Third-Grade Retention: Parents Show Common Ground Fighting It

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Nancy Bailey

July 12, 2023

Curmudgucation: Should We Spare the Rod?

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Peter Greene

July 11, 2023

Alfie Kohn: Pay Attention, Class: Here Come More Facts for You to Forget

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Alfie Kohn

July 10, 2023

Janresseger: What Will We Lose if Public Schools Are Privatized?

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Jan Resseger

July 7, 2023

Shanker Blog: Beyond the Blame Game: Remote Schooling Was Predicted by Spending Adequacy (Guest Post by Mark Weber)

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Mark Weber

July 6, 2023

CU Boulder Today: What SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action Means for American Higher Ed

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Daniel Strain

July 5, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Do No Harm: The Case of U.S. School Reform

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Larry Cuban

June 29, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Student Projects Are Better Than Tests

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Steven Singer

June 28, 2023

10th Period: House Budget is a Good Step

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Stephen Dyer

June 27, 2023

Sherman Dorn: Attacking Trans People and Criminalizing Teachers

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Sherman Dorn

June 26, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Where the Boys Aren’t: Why is Teaching Still a Female-Dominated Profession?

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Nancy Flanagan

June 23, 2023

Curmudgucation: The Pandemic and the Testing Red Herring

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Peter Greene

June 22, 2023

Janresseger: New Report: When Legislators Expand Vouchers, They Divert Dollars Desperately Needed in Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

June 21, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Fighting for a Public School for Students With Autism and Neurodiversity: Choices Parents Want

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Nancy Bailey

June 20, 2023

Answer Sheet: New Look at Benefits of Quality Preschool Education

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Valerie Strauss, Robert A. Hahn, and W. Steven Barnett

June 19, 2023

Shanker Blog: The Rise and Fall of the Teacher Evaluation Reform Empire

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Matthew Di Carlo

June 16, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Teacher-Researcher Gap Between Which Classroom Changes Matter

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Larry Cuban

June 15, 2023

LA Progressive: How Community Schools Can Fix a Growing Student Absentee Rate

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Jeff Bryant

June 14, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Former Success Academy Teacher Speaks Out

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Gary Rubinstein

June 13, 2023

Learning Policy Institute: Close Opportunity Gaps Without Gimmicks: Four Lessons From Exemplary Public High Schools

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Kevin G. Welner and Kate Somerville

June 12, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: What Kids Miss When They Stay Out of School

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David Labaree

June 9, 2023

Curmudgucation: Of Course Schools Teach About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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Peter Greene

June 8, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: SOR Endgame: The Reading Program Boondoggle

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P.L. Thomas

June 6, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Stay Woke, Public School Teachers

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Steven Singer

June 5, 2023

Janresseger: New Report: When Legislators Expand Vouchers, They Divert Dollars Desperately Needed in Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

June 2, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Absolute Folly of Standardization

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Nancy Flanagan

June 1, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How Stressing Preschoolers and Kindergarteners Could Lead to Mental Health Problems

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Nancy Bailey

May 31, 2023

Shanker Blog: Instructional Coaching: Education Buzzwords or Effective PD?

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Kayla Reist

May 30, 2023

Curmudgucation: The Call To Abolish Public Education

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Peter Greene

May 26, 2023

Letters From the Future (of Learning): The Most Important Supreme Court Case You’ve Never Heard Of

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Sam Chaltain

May 25, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Science of Scarcity and Sleep That Education Reformers (Want To) Ignore

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P.L. Thomas

May 24, 2023

Daily Kos: The Culture Wars Against History and Education

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Alan Singer

May 23, 2023

Answer Sheet: The Real Story Behind the State Takeover of Houston Public Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

May 22, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “Transform” Public Schools: Stop Using an Over-hyped Word

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Larry Cuban

May 19, 2023

Curmudgucation: ChatGPT Will Power Personalized Learning

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Peter Greene

May 18, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: I Am a Charter School Abolitionist, and You Should Be, Too

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Steven Singer

May 12, 2023

Janresseger: How a Marketplace, Consumerist Mentality Threatens Core Institutions and Harms Our Society

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Jan Resseger

May 11, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Thinking About Teachers at the Table

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Nancy Flanagan

May 10, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Even More Problems With Grade-Level Proficiency

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P.L. Thomas

May 8, 2023

Curmudgucation: Pre-K and the Long Haul

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Peter Greene

May 5, 2023

Alfie Kohn: The Caring Subversion of Nel Noddings: An Appreciation

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Alfie Kohn

May 4, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Educational Policymakers and Teachers Live in Different Worlds

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Larry Cuban

May 3, 2023

Answer Sheet: How This Public School's Focus on Wellness and Health Benefits Its Community

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Valerie Strauss

May 2, 2023

10th Period: Ohio's Universal Voucher Bill Takes $1.13 Billion From Public School Kids to Subsidize Adults

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Stephen Dyer

May 1, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: What Does ChatGPT Say About the Science of Reading? It May Surprise You

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Nancy Bailey

April 27, 2023

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Katherine Marsh: Why Children Don’t Fall in Love with Reading

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Diane Ravitch

April 26, 2023

Our Schools/Portside: LA Teachers Make Good Their Promise to Support Community Schools

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Jeff Bryant

April 25, 2023

Stories From School AZ: Empowering Teachers: A Strategy For Teacher Retention

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Nicole Wolff

April 24, 2023

Curmudgucation: How To Prepare High Quality Teachers

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Peter Greene

April 21, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Myth of the Bad Teacher: 2023

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P.L. Thomas

April 20, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: ChatGPT Used by Teachers More Than Students, New Survey (Walton Foundation)

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Larry Cuban

April 19, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: America’s Most Vulnerable and Important Profession

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Nancy Flanagan

April 18, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Tests Hurt Asian-American Students, Too, Though Many Get High Scores

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Steven Singer

April 17, 2023

Letters from the Future (of Learning): In Atlanta, A School That Embodies Innovation

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Sam Chaltain

April 14, 2023

Curmudgucation: Identity and Social Emotional Learning

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Peter Greene

April 12, 2023

Janresseger: Why Public School Supporters Must Not Give Up the Fight Against School Vouchers

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Jan Resseger

April 6, 2023

Answer Sheet: How Public Schools Can Stop Wasting Millions of Dollars

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Valerie Strauss, David C. Berliner, Norman P. Gibbs, and Margarita Pivovarova

April 5, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Anti-Teacher (and Sexist) Roots of Rejecting Teacher Autonomy

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P.L. Thomas

April 4, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cheating and ChatGPT (Denise Pope and Drew Schrader) (Guest Post by Denise Pope and Drew Schrader)

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Denise Pope and Drew Schrader

April 3, 2023

Shanker Blog: Infrastructure Matters

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Rachael Gabriel and Sarah L. Woulfin

March 31, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: School Syndrome: Understanding the USA’s School Syndrome: Understanding the Usa’s Magical Belief That Schooling Can Somehow Improve Society, Promote Access, and Preserve Advantage

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David Labaree

March 30, 2023

Curmudgucation: Is It Really Equity vs. Excellence?

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Peter Greene

March 29, 2023

Janresseger: What Will We Lose if Public Schools Are Privatized?

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Jan Resseger

March 28, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Who is Indoctrinating Whom?

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Nancy Bailey

March 27, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: ChatGPT and a New Battle in the Citation Gauntlet for Students and Teachers

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P.L. Thomas

March 24, 2023

Answer Sheet: Parents Know Best — Except When They Don't

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 23, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: High Performing Teachers with Low-Tech Classrooms

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Larry Cuban

March 22, 2023

Curmudgucation: The Choice Rural Students Don't Need

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Peter Greene

March 21, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Will the Future Include Free Democratic Public Schools and Teachers?

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Nancy Bailey

March 20, 2023

Janresseger: Expansion of School Vouchers Is Being Driven by an Ideological Corporate Campaign, Not by Voters

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Jan Resseger

March 14, 2023

Shanker Blog: School Vouchers: There Is No Upside

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Joshua Cowen

March 13, 2023

Alfie Kohn: How to Prevent Social Change: A Handy Guide for Educators and Parents

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Alfie Kohn

March 10, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Lure of Statistics for Educational Researchers

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David Labaree

March 9, 2023

10th Period: Ohio's Voucher Race Problem

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Stephen Dyer

March 8, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Test-Based Achievement Mirages: Florida Edition

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P.L. Thomas

March 7, 2023

Answer Sheet: Using ChatGPT for Disinformation and Other News Literacy Lessons

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Valerie Strauss

March 6, 2023

Curmudgucation: California's Creepy Cradle to Career Pipeline

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Peter Greene

March 3, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Reform Again, Again, and Yet Again

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Larry Cuban

March 2, 2023

Janresseger: Pro-Voucher Lobbying Group Funds a Questionable Report to Support Its Fight Against Vouchers Hurt Ohio Lawsuit

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Jan Resseger

March 1, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: What Reading Program Should Schools Adopt?

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P.L. Thomas

February 28, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Keep Your Hands Off My Curriculum

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Nancy Flanagan

February 27, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Steve Perry and P. Diddy Harlem Charter School: Only One 8th Grader Proficient on State Math Test

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Gary Rubinstein

February 24, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Teach for America and Teacher Ed: Heads You Win, Tails We Lose

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David Labaree

February 23, 2023

Answer Sheet: The Basic Rights Teachers Don't Have

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Valerie Strauss and Joshua Weishart

February 22, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: A Private Equity Firm, the Makers of the MAP Test, and an Ed Tech Publisher Join Forces

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Steven Singer

February 21, 2023

Curmudgucation: School Choice Is Not the Goal

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Peter Greene

February 20, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Social Promotion?

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Larry Cuban

February 17, 2023

Janresseger: Network for Public Education Demands Further Regulation of For-Profit Charter School Sector

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Jan Resseger

February 16, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: A Call for a New (and Honest) Reading Story for 2023

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P.L. Thomas

February 15, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Parents’ Rights vs. Reality

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Nancy Flanagan

February 14, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Trainwreck For America

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Gary Rubinstein

February 13, 2023

Answer Sheet: The Element of Suspense in Supreme Court’s 2023 Affirmative Action Ruling

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

February 10, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Key Questions I Get Asked about Technology in Classrooms

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Larry Cuban

February 9, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Public Schools for Private Gain

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David Labaree

February 8, 2023

Ed in the Apple: Does Social and Emotional Learning Belong in the Classroom?

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Peter Goodman

February 6, 2023

Sherman Dorn: What We Can Learn From a Half-Century of Federal Special Education Reform (Part 3)

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Sherman Dorn

February 6, 2023

Curmudgucation: Bill Gates Is Going to Fix Math

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Peter Greene

February 3, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: Artificially Intelligent Chatbots Will Not Replace Teachers

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Steven Singer

February 1, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Pass or Fail Jorge? A Teacher’s Dilemma

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Larry Cuban

February 1, 2023

Janresseger: Trying to Convince Your Legislators Not to Expand Vouchers? Here Are Some Facts You Need

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Jan Resseger

January 31, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: Does Instruction Matter?

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P.L. Thomas

January 29, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Connecting Big Business with The Science of Reading: Replacing Teachers and Public Schools with Tech

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Nancy Bailey

January 27, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: Teaching Human History

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Nancy Flanagan

January 26, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: New Data Reveals That Success Academy Attrition Is Worse Than Previously Reported

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Gary Rubinstein

January 25, 2023

Answer Sheet: A Critique of a GAO Report on Charter Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 24, 2023

Curmudgucation: AI and Plagiarism

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Peter Greene

January 23, 2023

Gadfly on the Wall: School Vouchers Don’t Increase Academics; They Increase Bigotry

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January 20, 2023

Rethinking Schools: The “Learning Loss” Trap

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January 19, 2023

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Puzzling Question About Teaching in U.S. Schools

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Larry Cuban

January 18, 2023

Janresseger: The Three Most Serious Problems for U.S. Public Education in 2023

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Jan Resseger

January 17, 2023

Shanker Blog: Heartwarming or Heartbreaking: Reflections on Abbott Elementary and Our Underfunded Schools

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January 13, 2023

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Josh Cowen: What About the Kids Who Give Up Their Vouchers?

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Diane Ravitch

January 12, 2023

Radical Eyes for Equity: The “Science of Reading” Movement Fails Implementation Science

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January 11, 2023

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Aligning a Child’s Education to Industry: A Long-Time Corporate Goal

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Nancy Bailey

January 10, 2023

10th Period: Fordham Unwittingly Admits EdChoice Unconstitutional

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Stephen Dyer

January 9, 2023

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Jorgenson and Abram — The Dark Side of Rigor

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January 6, 2023

Teacher in a Strange Land: What Do We Owe Children of the Pandemic?

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January 5, 2023

Our Schools: How Can We Help?

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January 4, 2023

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Parents Speak Out. Part 2 “I Was Told My Seventh Grade Daughter Had to Repeat Entire Grade Because She Failed One Course by One Point”

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Gary Rubinstein

January 3, 2023

Answer Sheet: Did We Need NAEP To Tell Us Students Aren't Doing Well?

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Valerie Strauss

December 22, 2022

Curmudgucation: Heritage Foundation: School Choice Is Wokeness Antidote

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Peter Greene

December 21, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Parents Speak Out. Part 1: “They Banned Me From Attending My Son’s Graduation.”

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Gary Rubinstein

December 20, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: The Teacher Exodus Continues Whether You Care or Not

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Steven Singer

December 19, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Paradox of Increasing Efficiency Yet Becoming More Inefficient

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Larry Cuban

December 16, 2022

Answer Sheet: How to Diversity America's Teaching Corps

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Valerie Strauss, Conra D. Gist, and Travis J. Bristol

December 14, 2022

Janresseger: NAEP Scores Confirm that COVID Disrupted Schooling; They Do Not Reflect a Downward Trajectory in School Achievement

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Jan Resseger

December 13, 2022

Shanker Blog: Whose Knowledge Matters in Literacy Instruction?

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Courtney Hattan

December 12, 2022

Curmudgucation: Do Charters Damage the Teacher Pipeline

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Peter Greene

December 9, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Arizona: Universal Vouchers Are a Subsidy for Wealthy Families

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Diane Ravitch

December 8, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Test Scores are Incompatible With Your School’s Equity Plan

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Steven Singer

December 7, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Judging Quality of School Reform

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Larry Cuban

December 6, 2022

Answer Sheet: Challenges That Young Immigrants Face With U.S. Public Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Sophia Rodriguez

December 5, 2022

Janresseger: How the School Marketplace Wrecks Universal Public Schooling

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Jan Resseger

December 2, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: The “Big Lie,” American as Apple Pie

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P.L. Thomas

December 1, 2022

Shanker Blog: The Long Shadow of Racial Housing Discrimination

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 30, 2022

Living in Dialogue: Am I Too Darn Old – For What?

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Anthony Cody

November 29, 2022

Curmudgucation: School Choice and Switching Costs

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Peter Greene

November 28, 2022

Alfie Kohn: “Eduspeak” Reconsidered: When, Why, and to Whom Is Educational Jargon Annoying?

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Alfie Kohn

November 22, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Anxiety and Depression in the Age of the Super Student

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Nancy Bailey

November 21, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Josh Cowen: Vouchers Are a Disaster for Students Who Leave Public Schools

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November 18, 2022

Psychology Today: 4 Ways to Make Schools Better for Trans and Non-Binary Youth

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Elizabeth J. Meyer, Bethy Leonardi, and Harper B. Keenan

November 17, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: The Racist Origins of Standardized Testing Still Matter

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Steven Singer

November 15, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Advice to Teachers and Policymakers

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Larry Cuban

November 15, 2022

10th Period: Ohio High School Voucher Data: Longer You Take a Voucher, Worse You Do

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Stephen Dyer

November 14, 2022

Answer Sheet: Why One-Size-Fits-All Metrics for Evaluating Schools Must Go

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November 11, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: An Unlovely Legacy: The Disabling Impact of the Market on American Teacher Education

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November 10, 2022

Shanker Blog: Reimagining Teacher Mentoring Programs: A Key to Solving the Teacher Shortage

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November 9, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: When Good Students Get Bad Standardized Test Scores

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Steven Singer

November 8, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers’ Use of Academic Research

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Larry Cuban

November 7, 2022

Janresseger: Continued Misuse of Test Score Data to Rate and Rank Schools

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Jan Resseger

November 4, 2022

10th Period: Why Won't the Buckeye Institute Tell Us How Much Their Education Savings Accounts Will Cost?

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Stephen Dyer

November 3, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: Reading Science: Current and On-Going Research

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November 2, 2022

Answer Sheet: Audit of Charter School Program Finds Big Problems

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November 1, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Two Cheers for School Bureaucracy

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David Labaree

October 31, 2022

Curmudgucation: The Evolving School Choice Argument

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October 28, 2022

Shanker Blog: Painting a Portrait of Professional Learning for the Science of Reading

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October 27, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Why Even the Best Charter Schools are Fundamentally Inequitable

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Steven Singer

October 26, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Data-Driven Instructional Practice

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Larry Cuban

October 25, 2022

Janresseger: David Berliner: Why It Is So Dangerous When Governors and Legislatures Reduce Teacher Credentialing Requirements

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Jan Resseger

October 24, 2022

Alfie Kohn: Is It Enough for Learners to Be “Engaged”?

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Alfie Kohn

October 20, 2022

Answer Sheet: Virtual Charter Schools See Enrollments Rise

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

October 19, 2022

10th Period: Fordham: Where Cherry Picking Has Become an Art Form

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Stephen Dyer

October 18, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Sermon on Educational Research

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David Labaree

October 17, 2022

Curmudgucation: Annual NAEP Panic (COVID Edition)

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Peter Greene

October 11, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: High Tech: Addiction or Dependency?

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Larry Cuban

October 10, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: The MAP Test – Selling Schools Unnecessary Junk at Student Expense

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Steven Singer

October 6, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Anya Kamenetz: The Attack on Horace Mann’s Historic Vision of Public Schooling

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Diane Ravitch

October 5, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: How to Make More Teachers

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Nancy Flanagan

October 4, 2022

LA Progressive: Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods

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Jeff Bryant

October 3, 2022

Sherman Dorn: What We Can Learn From a Half-Century of Federal Special Education Reform (Part 2)

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Sherman Dorn

September 30, 2022

Ed in the Apple: The Reading Wars: Balanced Literacy v Phonics, Revisited

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September 29, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Dynamic Tension at the Core of the Grammar of Schooling

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David Labaree

September 28, 2022

Curmudgucation: IN: More Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination

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September 27, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Measuring Teacher Productivity: Fool’s Errand?

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Larry Cuban

September 26, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Classroom Grades Show Learning Better Than Standardized Test Scores

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Steven Singer

September 23, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy’s Backhanded Backfill Policy

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Gary Rubinstein

September 22, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: New Study: Broad Supes Made No Difference, Other Than Increasing Charter Schools

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Diane Ravitch

September 21, 2022

10th Period: Yes, School Choice Fans, the Ohio Constitution Requires Funding a System of Public Schools

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Stephen Dyer

September 20, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Amusing Ourselves into Educational Oblivion

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Nancy Flanagan

September 19, 2022

Shanker Blog: What the Science of Reading Misses

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Esther Quintero

September 16, 2022

If We License the Engineers, Will We Have Safer Technologies in Education?

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Velislava Hillman

September 15, 2022

Naked Capitalism: Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?

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Yves Smith and Jeff Bryant

September 14, 2022

Sherman Dorn: What We Can Learn From a Half-Century of Federal Special Education Reform (Part 1)

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Sherman Dorn

September 13, 2022

Ed in the Apple: The First Day of School: Anxiety for Students and Teachers

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Peter Goodman

September 12, 2022

Huffington Post: After Teaching for 11 Years, I Quit My Job. Here’s Why Your Child’s Teacher Might Be Next

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Katie Niemczyk

September 9, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Schools as Factories: Metaphors That Stick

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Larry Cuban

September 8, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Insights From James Scott About the Conflicting Worldviews of Reformers and Teachers

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David Labaree

September 7, 2022

Code Acts in Education: Enclouding Education

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Ben Williamson

September 6, 2022

Answer Sheet: The Hit Comedy ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Really a Tragedy

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Valerie Strauss

September 2, 2022

Curmudgucation: ME: That Private School Funding Goal Isn't Fully Realized Yet

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Peter Greene

September 1, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Another School Year Begins in August

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Larry Cuban

August 31, 2022

Shanker Blog: The Gap Between Policy and Practice: Where Textbooks Fail Teachers (Guest Post by William Schmidt)

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William Schmidt

August 30, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Why is a Gates-Funded, Anti-Union, Charter Advocacy Group Part of Pennsylvania’s New Plan to Stop the Teacher Exodus?

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Steven Singer

August 29, 2022

Janresseger: Ideologues Beat Up on Public Schools As Many Forget About the Essential Role of These Public Institutions and Our Obligation to Support Them

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Jan Resseger

August 26, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Who’s Teaching America’s Students?

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Nancy Bailey

August 25, 2022

Answer Sheet: Six Things Kids Need in School in Today's Politicized World

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Valerie Strauss, Raechel Barone, and Karen Engels

August 24, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Split on Screens (Jesse Pearson) (Guest Post by Jesse Pearson)

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Larry Cuban and Jesse Pearson

August 23, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Nearly Half of Success Academy 9th Graders Do Not Graduate From Success Academy

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Gary Rubinstein

August 22, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Carol Burris: Mike Bloomberg Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About When It Comes to Charter Schools

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Diane Ravitch and Carol C. Burris

August 19, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Why We Need Histories of Education

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David Labaree

August 18, 2022

Code Acts in Education: How Amazon Operates in Education

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Ben Williamson, Kalervo N. Gulson, Carlo Perrotta, and Kevin Witzenberger

August 17, 2022

10th Period: ECOT Easily State's Biggest Ever Taxpayer Ripoff

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Stephen Dyer

August 16, 2022

Janresseger: A Long History of Housing Redlining Has Shaped Today’s School Finance Inequity

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Jan Resseger

August 15, 2022

LA Progressive: Community Schools: ‘Troubled’ District May Yet Be Helped

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Jeff Bryant

August 12, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Tutoring Our Way to Excellence?

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Nancy Flanagan

August 11, 2022

Answer Sheet: How Supreme Court Ruling Lays Groundwork for Religious Charter Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

August 10, 2022

Curmudgucation: Charter Free Market Problems

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Peter Greene

August 9, 2022

Shanker Blog: Effects of COVID-19 on Students’ Academic Achievement, Behavior, and Social-Emotional Well-Being

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Alvin Larson

August 8, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Confessing Mistakes Is Very Hard to Do: I Tried to Link Changing School Structures to Improve Classroom Practice

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Larry Cuban

August 5, 2022

LA Progressive: Public Schools Attacked for Trying to Better Students

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Jeff Bryant

August 4, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Federal or State Legislatures May Raise Teacher Salaries So Schools Have Enough Staff to Reopen

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Steven Singer

August 3, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: What’s the Teacher’s Role, if Any, in Community Schools With Partnerships?

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Nancy Bailey

August 2, 2022

Curmudgucation: Education and the Nation

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Peter Greene

August 1, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Do Parents Really Want Control Over What Students Learn?

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Nancy Flanagan

July 27, 2022

Progressive Magazine: The Bipartisan Rejection of ‘School Choice’

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Jeff Bryant

July 26, 2022

Education in Two Worlds: Meta-Analysis at 25: A Personal History

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Gene V Glass

July 25, 2022

10th Period: Ohio School Privatization More Expensive Than Public Schools

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Stephen Dyer

July 19, 2022

Brattleboro Reformer: William J. Mathis: The Insurrection -- Will the Center Hold?

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William J. Mathis

July 18, 2022

Cloaking Inequity: Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

July 15, 2022

Janresseger: Bloomberg Belittles Public Schools as a Strategy for Expanding School Privatization

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Jan Resseger

July 14, 2022

Answer Sheet: Why Virginia Gov. Youngkin Is Wrong About Student NAEP Scores

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Valerie Strauss and James Harvey

July 13, 2022

Shanker Blog: Let’s Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week by Acknowledging and Repairing a VERY Broken System

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Kayla Reist

July 12, 2022

Curmudgucation: The Future of Vouchers

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Peter Greene

July 11, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: 6 Terms Transforming Public Schools to the All-Tech Endgame

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Nancy Bailey

July 8, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Principals Raise Test Scores?

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Larry Cuban

July 7, 2022

Answer Sheet: What the Biden Administration’s New Rules for Charter Schools Say

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

July 6, 2022

Curmudgucation: Can SEL Avoid the Skills Trap

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Peter Greene

July 5, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Science of Reading Corporate Connection: Replacing Teachers With Tech

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Nancy Bailey

July 1, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Voting Is Not Enough to Save Public Education or Keep Schools Safe

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Nancy Flanagan

June 30, 2022

Answer Sheet: Supreme Court Likely to Drop School Voucher Bombshell

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Valerie Strauss

June 29, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kids and Screen Time (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

June 23, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: TFA Podcast Celebrates Denver Students Who Fought Reforms That TFA Once Supported

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Gary Rubinstein

June 22, 2022

Curmudgucation: The (Not a) Mystery of Class Size

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Peter Greene

June 21, 2022

Truthout/Our Schools: Why Did Oakland Decide to Shut Down Popular Community Schools?

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Jeff Bryant

June 20, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Social. Emotional. Learning.

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Nancy Flanagan

June 17, 2022

10th Period: Ohio Data: Vouchers Re-Segregate Schools

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Stephen Dyer

June 16, 2022

Shanker Blog: The Ongoing Journey to Equitable Practices

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Allie Tompkins, Marie Collins, Bryan Mascio, and Beth Fornauf

June 15, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: Understanding the Zombie Politics of the National Reading Panel in 2022

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P.L. Thomas

June 14, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: David C. Berliner: What I Learned at the NPE Conference

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Diane Ravitch

June 13, 2022

Code Acts in Education: New Biological Realities in the Genetics of Education

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Ben Williamson

June 10, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research

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David Labaree

June 9, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kids and Screen Time (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

June 8, 2022

Answer Sheet: Pandemic Erased a Decade of Progress for Public Pre-K Programs, Report Finds

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Valerie Strauss and W. Steven Barnett

June 7, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Top 5 Charter School Myths Debunked

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Steven Singer

June 6, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: TFA Podcast Showcasing ‘Failing’ Schools

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Gary Rubinstein

June 3, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Big Error in Policymaker Thinking

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Larry Cuban

June 2, 2022

Janresseger: Ohio Charter School Sector Epitomizes All the Reasons Why the Federal Charter Schools Program Must Be Reformed

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Jan Resseger

June 1, 2022

Curmudgucation: I'm Not Going to Defend SEL

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Peter Greene

May 31, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Trouble with Social-Emotional Learning: Why Be Concerned? Here’s Why!

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Nancy Bailey

May 26, 2022

Curmudgucation: PA: The Voucher Bill Advances

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Peter Greene

May 25, 2022

The People's Think Tank: Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color

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Emma Tynan, Sarah Kim Pak, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, and Mark R. Warren

May 24, 2022

Answer Sheet: Privatization of Public Education Gaining Ground, Report Says

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Valerie Strauss

May 23, 2022

Psychology Today: Instruction About LGBTQ People in Elementary School Is Age-Appropriate

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Elizabeth J. Meyer

May 20, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Pedagogy, Lesson Plans, Instructional Materials—and Politics

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Nancy Flanagan

May 19, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Covid Has Hobbled Public Schools. Here’s Why They’re Worth Saving

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Steven Singer

May 18, 2022

10th Period: Follow the Money....

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Stephen Dyer

May 17, 2022

Shanker Blog: It Takes a Community to Raise a Reader

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Kayla Reist

May 16, 2022

Alfie Kohn: Last Time, the Religious Right Told Us Not Only What We Can Teach but How to Teach It

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Alfie Kohn

May 13, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Bloomberg Donates $200 Million to Success Academy and Promise Academy

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Gary Rubinstein

May 12, 2022

School Finance 101: When Evidence Based Isn’t: Informing State School Finance Formulas to Provide Equal Educational Opportunity for All

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Bruce D. Baker

May 11, 2022

Stories From School AZ: Get Them Talking

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Nicole Wolff

May 10, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research (Tara Kini and Anne Podolsky) (Guest Post by Tara Kini and Anne Podolsky)

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Tara Kini and Anne Podolsky

May 5, 2022

Janresseger: We Must Renew Efforts to End High-Stakes “Test and Punish” in U.S. Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

May 4, 2022

Curmudgucation: Do Students Know When They're Learning?

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Peter Greene

May 3, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: The “Science of Reading” Multiverse

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P.L. Thomas

May 2, 2022

Naked Capitalism/Our Schools: Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by For-Profit Accel Schools

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Yves Smith and Jeff Bryant

April 29, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Harm Caused by the Third Grade Reading Ultimatum

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Nancy Bailey

April 28, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Debunking the Myth That Teachers Stop Improving After Five Years (Jill Barshay) (Guest Post by Jill Barshay)

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Jill Barshay

April 27, 2022

Janresseger: U.S. Dept. of Ed. Proposes Rules to Stop Flow of Federal Charter School Grants Into Management Company Profits

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Jan Resseger

April 26, 2022

Curmudgucation: "Don't Say Gay" Reactions: Masks Off

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Peter Greene

April 25, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: The Politics of Reading Proficiency (and Charter Schools)

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P.L. Thomas

April 21, 2022

Shanker Blog: Massachusetts: A Systems Approach To Improving Reading

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Heather Peske

April 21, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: North Carolina Plans to Scrap Experience-Based Teacher Pay and Replace It With Test-Based “Merit Pay”: A Zombie Policy

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Diane Ravitch

April 20, 2022

Hack Education: Hope for the Future

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Audrey Watters

April 19, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Attractions of Doing School

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David Labaree

April 18, 2022

Progressive Magazine: Community Schools Could Fix a Major Problem in Education

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Jeff Bryant

April 15, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: The Incredible Shrinking TFA

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Gary Rubinstein

April 14, 2022

Answer Sheet: Teachers to Culture Warriors: Stop Treating Us as Enemies

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Valerie Strauss

April 13, 2022

Code Acts in Education: Google Magic

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Ben Williamson

April 12, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Every Teacher Knows

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Steven Singer

April 11, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Dangerous End of School Libraries and Public Education

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Nancy Bailey

April 5, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Reformers’ Occupational Hazards: Innocence and Failure

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Larry Cuban

April 4, 2022

Janresseger: Quarrels About Critical Race Theory and the Teaching of “Divisive Topics” Persist and Expand

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Jan Resseger

April 1, 2022

Curmudgucation: When Choice Doesn't Put Parents First

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Peter Greene

March 31, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: Don’t Buy It: The Marketing Scam of MSM and the “Science of Reading”

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P.L. Thomas

March 30, 2022

Shanker Blog: A Recipe for Successful Literacy Instruction

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Kayla Reist

March 29, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Preschool and the Expectation Divide: It’s Time to Talk!

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Nancy Bailey

March 28, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teachers Are Politicos

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Larry Cuban

March 24, 2022

Janresseger: School Staffing Challenges During COVID-19 Reflect a Serious and Widespread School Funding Shortage

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Jan Resseger

March 23, 2022

Curmudgucation: Tax Credit Scholarships and Education Savings Accounts: A Primer

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Peter Greene

March 22, 2022

Academic Freedom Isn't Free: Curriculum as Windows, Mirrors, and Maps

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P.L. Thomas

March 21, 2022

Shanker Blog: What We’ve Learned About Creating Safe, Equitable, and Engaging Schools

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Mary Cathryn Ricker and David Osher

March 18, 2022

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Murky World of i-Ready, Grading, and Online Data

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Nancy Bailey

March 17, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Jennifer Berkshire: Who Is Driving Teachers Out of Their Profession?

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Diane Ravitch and Jennifer Berkshire

March 16, 2022

Hack Education: The History of the School Bell

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Audrey Watters

March 14, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Highly Unqualified Teacher

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Nancy Flanagan

March 11, 2022

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Releasing Poor Kids from Preschool Prison

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David Labaree

March 10, 2022

Yong Zhao: Introduction to New Book: Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World

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Yong Zhao

March 9, 2022

Naked Capitalism/Our Schools: How Corporations Use Public School Workforce ‘Pipelines’ to Harvest Students’ Data and Train Narrowly Skilled, Exploitable Staff

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Yves Smith, Jeff Bryant, and Velislava Hillman

March 8, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Extends Its 75% Attrition Streak

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Gary Rubinstein

March 7, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Do Teachers Teach Now (Part 3)

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Larry Cuban

March 3, 2022

Answer Sheet: Book Excerpt: How Charter Schools Control Access

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Valerie Strauss, Wagma Mommandi, and Kevin G. Welner

March 2, 2022

Janresseger: Closing Achievement Gaps Will Require Closing Opportunity Gaps Outside of School

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Jan Resseger

March 1, 2022

Curmudgucation: History is a Conversation

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Peter Greene

February 28, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Do Teachers Teach Now (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

February 25, 2022

Answer Sheet: Why Social-Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough to Help Students Today

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Valerie Strauss, Andy Hargreaves, and Dennis Shirley

February 24, 2022

Radical Eyes for Equity: Science Supports Balance, Not Intensive Phonics, for Teaching Reading

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P.L. Thomas

February 23, 2022

Janresseger: Federally Mandated Standardized Testing: If Nothing Is Done to Change a Bad Public Policy, It Never Goes Away

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Jan Resseger

February 22, 2022

Shanker Blog: Constructing and Animating the Infrastructure for Reading Instruction

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Sarah L. Woulfin and Rachael Gabriel

February 21, 2022

Curmudgucation: The Fallacy in Learning Loss Panic

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Peter Greene

February 18, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Do Teachers Teach Now? (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

February 17, 2022

Answer Sheet: Getting Education Reform Right

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Valerie Strauss and Donald Cohen

February 16, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Kindergarten Online Data? Teacher Observation is Safer and Better!

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Nancy Bailey

February 15, 2022

Radical Eyes for Equity: Privilege as a Barrier to Learning

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P.L. Thomas

February 14, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: Six Gigantic Problems, Six Wrong Solutions in Public Education

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Nancy Flanagan

February 11, 2022

Janresseger: Kevin Welner: In Our Alarmingly Unequal Society, Public Schools by Themselves Cannot Be the Great Equalizer

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Jan Resseger

February 10, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: The Same People Who Think Antiracists Have Gone Too Far Think Standardized Testing Hasn’t Gone Far Enough

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Steven Singer

February 9, 2022

Shanker Blog: Allied Around Student Success

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Mary Cathryn Ricker

February 8, 2022

Curmudgucation: Research: Yes, Common Core Was Bad

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Peter Greene

February 7, 2022

Answer Sheet: The Story of a Charter School and Its For-Profit Operators

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 4, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Charters and Vouchers to Destroy Virginia’s Public Schools Will Involve Questionable Data Collected on Children

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Nancy Bailey

February 3, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: From the Bottom Up: Teachers as Reformers

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Larry Cuban

February 2, 2022

Alfie Kohn: Second Thoughts About Community and “Empathy”

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Alfie Kohn

February 1, 2022

Ed in the Apple: Where Have the Teachers Gone? How Are We Addressing the Looming Teacher Shortages?

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Peter Goodman

January 31, 2022

Diane Ravitch's Blog: North Carolina: The End of an Experiment

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Diane Ravitch

January 28, 2022

10th Period: Voucher Lawsuit Filed, Voucher Proponents Dissemble

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Stephen Dyer

January 27, 2022

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Two KIPPs on the Block

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January 26, 2022

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Demise of Genuinely Public Education

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Nancy Flanagan

January 25, 2022

Janresseger: Michael Bloomberg Continues to Invest in Expanding the Charter Schools That Undermine Public Education

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Jan Resseger

January 21, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Teachers Absorb Student Trauma But Don’t Know How to Get Rid of the Pain

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Steven Singer

January 20, 2022

Shanker Blog: What Teachers Want From PD

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Kayla Reist

January 19, 2022

Curmudgucation: The Troubles With the Learning Loss Debate

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Peter Greene

January 18, 2022

Janresseger: A Climate of Fear Makes It Harder for Children and Their Teachers to Consider Our History

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Jan Resseger

January 14, 2022

Answer Sheet: Covid-19 Brought New Technology Into Elementary School. It’s Time to Remove Ii.

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Valerie Strauss and Annalise Caron

January 13, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Preschool Cookie-Cutter Pressure: Head Start’s Troubling Framework

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Nancy Bailey

January 12, 2022

Radical Eyes for Equity: Freedom and the Politics of Canceling Teachers and Curriculum

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P.L. Thomas

January 12, 2022

Gadfly on the Wall: Stop Normalizing the Exploitation of Teachers

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Steven Singer

January 11, 2022

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Open Education?

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Larry Cuban

January 10, 2022

Curmudgucation: A Reminder About the Uselessness of Test Scores

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Peter Greene

January 7, 2022

Janresseger: New Research Yet Again Proves the Folly of Judging Teachers by Their Students’ Test Scores

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Jan Resseger

January 6, 2022

Answer Sheet: 13 Ways Charter Schools Shape Their Enrollment

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

January 5, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Driving Teachers Out! The Longtime Plan to End A Great Profession

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January 4, 2022

Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Matters

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P.L. Thomas

December 15, 2021

Code Acts in Education: PISA for Machine Learners

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Ben Williamson

December 14, 2021

AlterNet: How Community Schools Are Helping a Hard-Hit City Dig Out of Tough Times

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Jeff Bryant

December 13, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Reducing Students to Their Test Scores Will Only Increase Their Pandemic Wounds

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Steven Singer

December 10, 2021

Alfie Kohn Indoctrination

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Alfie Kohn

December 9, 2021

Ed in the Apple: Billions of Dollars Later Researchers Find Teacher Evaluation Reforms Have No Positive Effects on Student Outcomes

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Peter Goodman

December 8, 2021

Curmudgucation: OH: One More Push To Defund Public Education

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Peter Greene

December 7, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teacher as Classroom Politician

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Larry Cuban

December 6, 2021

Oxford University Press: Police-Free Schools: The New Frontier in Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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Mark R. Warren

December 3, 2021

Curmudgucation: US News, Please Knock It Off

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Peter Greene

December 2, 2021

Janresseger: Status of School Vouchers—30 Years After Milwaukee Vouchers and 25 Years After Cleveland Vouchers Began

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Jan Resseger

December 1, 2021

Answer Sheet: Big Questions About the 2021 Standardized Test Scores

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Valerie Strauss and Bob Schaeffer

November 30, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: My Students Haven’t Lost Learning. They’ve Lost Social and Emotional Development

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Steven Singer

November 29, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Why Many Top-Down School Reforms Fail: Elementary Math in One District

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Larry Cuban

November 24, 2021

Curmudgucation: The Missing School Choice Argument

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Peter Greene

November 23, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Universal Pre-K? Good Idea But Concerns About the Curriculum

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Nancy Bailey

November 22, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: Conservatives Seeking Education as a Buffet of Ignorance

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P.L. Thomas

November 19, 2021

Janresseger: National Education Policy Center’s New Brief on Critical Race Theory Is a Must-Read for All Americans

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Jan Resseger

November 18, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Counting Learning Losses

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Ben Williamson

November 17, 2021

Answer Sheet: Teacher: 10 Things School Districts Should Do Right Now

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Valerie Strauss and Larry Ferlazzo

November 16, 2021

Shanker Blog: The Science of Reading Reporting: What’s In It for Parents of Young Children?

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Esther Quintero

November 15, 2021

Naked Capitalism: For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education

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Yves Smith and Jeff Bryant

November 12, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: If You’re Afraid Kids Will Learn Racism is Bad, Perhaps Public School is Not For You

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Steven Singer

November 11, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Myth That Better Schools Will Reduce Inequalities in Wealth and Health

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Larry Cuban

November 10, 2021

Curmudgucation: What Can Schools Learn From Learning Pods

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Peter Greene

November 9, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Cult-Like Social-Emotional Learning? Questioning Valor Charters and Powered by Compass

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Nancy Bailey

November 8, 2021

Janresseger: Status of School Vouchers—30 Years After Milwaukee Vouchers and 25 Years After Cleveland Vouchers Began

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Jan Resseger

November 5, 2021

Answer Sheet: Enrollment Jumps in Charter Schools — With Big Gains in Worst-Performing Part of Charter Sector

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

November 4, 2021

Progressive Magazine: The Proud Boys Are Coming for Public Schools

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Jeff Bryant

November 3, 2021

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Is Math the Emperor’s New Subject?

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Gary Rubinstein

November 2, 2021

School Finance 101: Toward a Unified Conception of Equity, Equal Opportunity, and Adequacy

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Bruce D. Baker

November 1, 2021

Stories from School AZ: The Problem of Choice

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Paul Forehand

October 29, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cutting Through the Hype: Can Principals Be Instructional Leaders?

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Larry Cuban

October 27, 2021

Janresseger: COVID Relief Dollars Should Be Used to Address School Districts’ Immediate and Sometimes Desperate Problems

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Jan Resseger

October 26, 2021

Curmudgucation: We've Been Having This Fight for Decades. It Won't End Soon.

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Peter Greene

October 25, 2021

Shanker Blog: Returning to School During the Pandemic: An Opportunity to Integrate Social-Emotional AND Academic Learning

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Bryan Mascio and Bill Wilmot

October 22, 2021

Alfie Kohn: Is Learning “Lost” When Kids Are Out of School?

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Alfie Kohn

October 21, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Why Many Top-Down School Reforms Fail: Elementary Math in One District

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Larry Cuban

October 20, 2021

Janresseger: The Danger of Conflating Public School Stability with Preservation of the Status Quo

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Jan Resseger

October 19, 2021

Curmudgucation: How to Undermine the Teaching of Reading

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Peter Greene

October 18, 2021

Answer Sheet: Florida Says It’s Ending Year-End, High-Stakes Standardized Testing. Here’s What It’s Really Doing.

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Valerie Strauss

October 8, 2021

The Conversation: Why Charter Schools Are Not as ‘Public’ as They Claim To Be

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Kevin G. Welner

October 7, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Nudging Assets

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Ben Williamson

October 6, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: I Can’t Believe I’m Looking at Test Scores

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Nancy Flanagan

October 5, 2021

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Educational Researchers: Living with a Lesser Form of Knowledge

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David Labaree

October 4, 2021

Alfie Kohn: The Case Against Classroom Management…a Quarter-Century Later

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Alfie Kohn

October 1, 2021

Janresseger: Remembering Mike Rose

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Jan Resseger

September 30, 2021

AlterNet: How For-Profit Charter Schools Open the Door for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

September 29, 2021

Curmudgucation: FL: The Big Standardized Test is Dead. Long Live the Big Standardized Test!

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Peter Greene

September 28, 2021

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Manufacturing Consent for Market-Driven Schooling

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Diane Ravitch

September 27, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: School Boards and Other Political Targets

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Nancy Flanagan

September 24, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How States Are Privatizing Public Schools to Tech Companies During the Delta Variant Uptick

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Nancy Bailey

September 23, 2021

Answer Sheet: Charter Schools Are Publicly Funded — But There’s Big Money in Selling Them

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 22, 2021

School Finance 101: What Does Research Say About Charter–District School Spending Differences?

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Bruce D. Baker

September 21, 2021

Curmudgucation: PA: A Different Tax Credit Approach

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Peter Greene

September 20, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching Then and Now (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

September 17, 2021

School Finance 101: Child Poverty and State School Finance Formulas

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Bruce D. Baker

September 16, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Adult Organized Recess Isn’t Real Recess! How the Pandemic is Being Used to Privatize P.E. as Recess

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Nancy Bailey

September 15, 2021

Curmudgucation: Teaching Machines: Read This Book

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Peter Greene

September 14, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: Moving from “All Students Must” to “Each Student Deserves”

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P.L. Thomas

September 13, 2021

Teachers College Press: How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

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Wagma Mommandi and Kevin G. Welner

September 10, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching Then and Now (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

September 9, 2021

School Finance 101: Methods for Comparing School Site Spending (and Correctly Making Charter School Comparisons)

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Bruce D. Baker

September 8, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Why Does Your Right to Unmask Usurp My Child’s Right to a Safe School?

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Steven Singer

September 7, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How Corporate School Reforms and Ed-Tech Cause Dangerous Distrust About Covid-19

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Nancy Bailey

September 3, 2021

Janresseger: Jeb Bush’s Pitiful Attempt to Defend Federal Funding of Charter Schools Managed by For-Profit Companies

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Jan Resseger

September 2, 2021

Answer Sheet: Educators Across the Country Protest Laws Limiting Lessons on Racism, Vow to Teach the Truth

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Valerie Strauss and Jesse Hagopian

September 1, 2021

Jersey Jazzman: On Remote Teaching and Learning in an Ongoing Pandemic

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Jersey Jazzman

August 31, 2021

Curmudgucation: Do 3rd Grade Tests Predict Anything?

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Peter Greene

August 27, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: NCTQ: “The Data Was Effectively Useless”

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P.L. Thomas

August 26, 2021

Education Law Center: NJ Supreme Court Affirms Mandate to Address the Impact of Charter Schools on Segregation and Funding

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David Sciarra and Wendy Lecker

August 25, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Downsizing School Reform After the Pandemic

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Larry Cuban

August 24, 2021

School Finance 101: Charter Schooling in the Post-Espinoza & Fulton Era

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Bruce D. Baker

August 23, 2021

BuzzFlash: Jeff Bryant: Industry Lobbying Firm Rushes to Defend Charter Schools That Think of Children as a Business

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Jeff Bryant

August 20, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Economists Worry Covid-19 May End Standardized Testing Altogether

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Steven Singer

August 19, 2021

Curmudgucation: Can We Close the Billionaire Learning Gap?

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Peter Greene

August 18, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Pandemic Learning Loss Reports That Sell Online Programs Are Harmful for Students with Disabilities

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Nancy Bailey

August 17, 2021

Teach in a Strange Land: Mission, Vision, Purpose and Other Things Nobody Pays Attention to in Public Education

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Nancy Flanagan

August 16, 2021

Ed in the Apple: Can We Create Student Assessments That Are Helpful to Teachers?

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Steven Singer

August 13, 2021

Jan Resseger: Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Urgently Important Debate about Federally Mandated High-Stakes Tests

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Jan Resseger

August 12, 2021

Alfie Kohn: When Racism Isn’t the Only Problem

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Alfie Kohn

August 11, 2021

Network for Public Education: Elites Profit From “Nonprofit” Charter Schools: An Interview with Carol Burris

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Meagan Day

August 10, 2021

Shanker Blog: School Funding and Equal Educational Opportunity

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Matthew Di Carlo

August 9, 2021

Curmudgucation: The Importance of School Administrators

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Peter Greene

August 6, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Breaking Open the Black Box of Edtech Brokers

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Mathias Decuypere and Ben Williamson

August 5, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: Who’s Indoctrinating Whom?

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P.L. Thomas

August 4, 2021

Shanker Blog: A More Actionable Take on the Science of Reading (Guest Post by Susan B. Neuman)

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Susan B. Neuman

August 3, 2021

Curmudgucation: Using Critical Race Theory To Target... Everything

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Peter Greene

August 2, 2021

Answer Sheet: No Systemic Racism? Look at Student Achievement Gaps in Reading.

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Valerie Strauss and Michael Holzman

July 16, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform

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Larry Cuban

July 15, 2021

Our Schools/BuzzFlash: Jeff Bryant: Why Are Federal Funds Flowing to "White Flight" Privatized Charter Schools and Contributing to the Re-Segregation of Education?

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Jeff Bryant

July 14, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Public Schools Are Not Indoctrinating Kids About Racism. Voucher Schools ARE

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Steven Singer

July 13, 2021

School Finance 101: Time to Tax the Churches!

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Bruce D. Baker

July 12, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: Unpacking Nonsense: Knowledge as Commodity

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P.L. Thomas

July 8, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Play-Based Learning Isn’t Free Play and May Be Connected to Online Learning

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Nancy Bailey

July 7, 2021

Shanker Blog: The Disturbingly Persistent Decline In State Education Effort

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Matthew Di Carlo

July 6, 2021

Curmudgucation: Should Schools Offer Virtual School Options in the Fall?

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Peter Greene

July 2, 2021

Answer Sheet: The Kind of Teaching Kids Need Right Now

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Valerie Strauss and Larry Ferlazzo

July 1, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: An Enduring Puzzle about Teaching in the U.S. (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

June 30, 2021

LA Progressive: Community School Approach Shows Great Possibility

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Jeff Bryant

June 29, 2021

Curmudgucation: The Problem of Parent Centered Education

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Peter Greene

June 28, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: Is Critical Race Theory Dividing the Country?

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Nancy Flanagan

June 18, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Top 6 Administrative Failures of the Pandemic Classroom

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Steven Singer

June 17, 2021

Ed in the Apple: Making Tough Choices: The Board of Regents, Equity, Charter Schools and Content-Rich Curriculum

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Peter Goodman

June 16, 2021

Answer Sheet: Is the Charter Schools Program Financing White-Flight Academies?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

June 15, 2021

Janresseger: Eliminating Federal Charter Schools Program Would Curb Academic and Financial Abuses by Charter Operators

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Jan Resseger

June 14, 2021

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Science of Reading Ignores the Importance of Picture Books to Early Learning

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Nancy Bailey

June 11, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: Should South Carolina Ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project?

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P.L. Thomas

June 10, 2021

Shanker Blog: How Non-Zero Tolerance Policies Better Support Our Students: Part II

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Lauren Schneider

June 8, 2021

Curmudgucation: Khan Academy Expanding to Littles

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Peter Greene

June 7, 2021

Answer Sheet: Why Learning Isn’t the Most Important Thing Kids Lost During the Pandemic

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Valerie Strauss and Stephen Merrill

June 4, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Life in Classrooms and Philip Jackson

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Larry Cuban

June 3, 2021

Janresseger: Bill and Melinda Will Divorce, But the Gates Brand of Venture Philanthropy Will Continue On

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Jan Resseger

June 2, 2021

LA Progressive: Where Did the Federal Government’s Charter School Program Go Wrong?

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Jeff Bryant

June 1, 2021

Curmudgucation: Charters vs. Vouchers

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Peter Greene

May 28, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: The Great (Unemployed and Underpaid) Transformation

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Nancy Flanagan

May 27, 2021

Shanker Blog: The Uncertain Short-Term Future of School Growth Models

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 26, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Diversity is the Most Important Reason to Save Public Schools

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Steven Singer

May 25, 2021

Answer Sheet: Let’s Review How Bill and Melinda Gates Spent Billions of Dollars to Change Public Education

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Valerie Strauss

May 24, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Nested Organizations: Public Schooling Is Complex

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Larry Cuban

May 21, 2021

Janresseger: How the Bad Old Third Grade Guarantee May Be Reborn to Hurt Children in the Post-COVID Era

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Jan Resseger

May 20, 2021

AlterNet: How a Florida School Improved Test Scores With a Simple but Powerful Community Approach

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Jeff Bryant

May 19, 2021

Curmudgucation: Accountability Whiplash

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Peter Greene

May 18, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: Student Appreciation Week

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Nancy Flanagan

May 17, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Valuing Futures

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Ben Williamson

May 13, 2021

Alfie Kohn: The Progressive Teacher’s Role in the Classroom: What Active Adult Involvement Does and Doesn’t Entail

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Alfie Kohn

May 12, 2021

Shanker Blog: The Great Divergence In State Education Spending

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 11, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: The Year Without Standardized Testing

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Steven Singer

May 10, 2021

Answer Sheet: New Report Provides Reality Check on Virtual Schools

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Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

May 7, 2021

Curmudgucation: To Choice Advocates: Some Questions

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Peter Greene

May 6, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Let the Children Play – My Prescription for Covid “Learning Loss”

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Steven Singer

May 5, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Few Thoughts About Classroom Technology Then and Now

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Larry Cuban

May 4, 2021

Answer Sheet: Former Lobbyist Details How Privatizers Are Trying to End Public Education

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Valerie Strauss

May 3, 2021

Janresseger: The Hubris of Billionaire Philanthropy and the Damage Wrought by the Common Core Standards

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Jan Resseger

April 30, 2021

LA Progressive: Yes, Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools

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Jeff Bryant

April 29, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: Acceleration Nation

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Nancy Flanagan

April 28, 2021

Curmudgucation: To Choice Advocates: Some Questions

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Peter Greene

April 27, 2021

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Acceleration: The Meaning Behind the Buzzword

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Nancy Bailey

April 26, 2021

10th Period: Let's Talk Charter Schools

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Stephen Dyer

April 23, 2021

Yong Zhao: New Article: Build Back Better: Avoid the Learning Loss Trap

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Yong Zhao

April 22, 2021

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Education Reinventers

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Gary Rubinstein

April 21, 2021

School Finance 101: Filling our Nation’s Funding Gaps

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Bruce D. Baker

April 20, 2021

Answer Sheet: A Better Way to Make Sense of Pandemic ‘Learning Loss’

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Valerie Strauss, William R. Penuel, and Katherine Schultz

April 19, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Crumbling Facade of “No Excuses” and Educational Racism

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P.L. Thomas

April 16, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Testing During a Pandemic is Stupid. And Cruel.

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Steven Singer

April 15, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teaching Then and Now

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Larry Cuban

April 14, 2021

Curmudgucation: FL: Let's Assess Four Year Olds

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Peter Greene

April 13, 2021

Jersey Jazzman: We Don't Need Standardized Testing In a Pandemic

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Jersey Jazzman

April 12, 2021

Janresseger: New Report Exposes Rip-Off of Tax Dollars by For-Profit Charter Management Companies

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Jan Resseger

April 9, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Edtech Sci-Fi

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Ben Williamson

April 8, 2021

Answer Sheet: A Look at Whether Charter Schools Are Fiscal Threats to Local School Districts

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

April 7, 2021

Curmudgucation: The Trouble With Data

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Peter Greene

April 6, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: Correcting Course on Correctness in English/ELA

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P.L. Thomas

April 2, 2021

Workplace Fairness: Joe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

April 1, 2021

Alfie Kohn: Dewey, Piaget, and Frosted Mini Wheats

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Alfie Kohn

March 31, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: Teachers, Testing and Why We Might Just Chill

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Nancy Flanagan

March 30, 2021

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Tutors Replacing Teachers: A Failed Privatization Plot Returns

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Nancy Bailey

March 29, 2021

Shanker Blog: Evidence In Education: Is Supply Meeting Teachers' Demand

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Lauren Schneider

March 25, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Standardized Testing During the Pandemic is Corporate Welfare Not Student Equity

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Steven Singer

March 24, 2021

Answer Sheet: Don’t Force Schools to Give Standardized Tests This Pandemic Year, Research Scholars Ask Education Secretary Cardona

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Valerie Strauss

March 23, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Monitorial Schools?

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Larry Cuban

March 22, 2021

Ed in the Apple: Will Secretary of Education Cardona Grant Standardized Test Waivers to States?

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Peter Goodman

March 18, 2021

Janresseger: Big Data on Learning Loss Is Not the Point: Teachers Know How to Use Formative Assessments to Guide Their Work with Each Child

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Jan Resseger

March 17, 2021

Jersey Jazzman: January, 2021 Update on NJ COVID School Opening Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded for Many

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Jersey Jazzman

March 16, 2021

Code Acts in Education: Pandemic Privatization and Digitalization in Higher Education

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Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan

March 12, 2021

Answer Sheet: Report: California ‘Wasting’ Millions of Dollars Funding Online Charter Schools

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Valerie Strauss

March 11, 2021

Curmudgucation: Big Brother Knows What's in Your Heart

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Peter Greene

March 10, 2021

Radical Eyes for Equity: The “Science of Reading”: A Movement Anchored in the Past

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P.L. Thomas

March 9, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Hybrid Teaching: Classroom Dilemmas

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Larry Cuban

March 8, 2021

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Michael Fullan: The Right Drivers for School Success in the 21st Century

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Diane Ravitch

March 5, 2021

Yong Zhao: New Article: The Changes We Need: Education Post COVID-19

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Yong Zhao

March 4, 2021

School Finance 101: A Few Thoughts on School Funding and Pandemic Relief

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Bruce D. Baker

March 3, 2021

Sherman Dorn: What Ed Policy Wonks Might Want to Know About the CDC School Advice, February 2021

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Sherman Dorn

March 2, 2021

Ed Politics: We Need a Democratic Approach to Reimagining Schools—Asking People, Not Billionaires and Ideologues, What They Want

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Jeff Bryant

March 1, 2021

Ed in the Apple: Can President Biden Reduce Childhood Poverty?

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Peter Goodman

February 26, 2021

Janresseger: Steve Nelson Believes America’s Obsession with School Policy Based on Standardized Tests Is All Wrong

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Jan Resseger

February 25, 2021

Stories from School AZ: Platforms Vs. Foundations. Pre- and Post- Pandemic Metaphors

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Amethyst Hinton Sainz

February 24, 2021

Jersey Jazzman: The Fiscal Impact of Charter Schools on School Districts: Thoughts on My New Report

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Jersey Jazzman

February 23, 2021

Answer Sheet: The Deeply Distorted Debate About Reopening Schools

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Valerie Strauss

February 19, 2021

Curmudgucation: FL: Voucher and Privatization Endgame in Sight

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Peter Greene

February 18, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Being Skeptical of Technology

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Larry Cuban

February 17, 2021

School Finance 101: Fixing Connecticut School Finance: The Time is Now

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Bruce D. Baker, Robert Cotto Jr., and Preston Green

February 16, 2021

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Farewell to the SAT! We Hope.

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Diane Ravitch

February 15, 2021

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: The Problems That Accountability Metrics Pose for Schooling

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David Labaree

February 12, 2021

Answer Sheet: Teacher: What’s Missing From Calls for Summer School to Stem ‘Learning Loss’

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Valerie Strauss and Larry Ferlazzo

February 11, 2021

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: 6 Ways High-Stakes Standardized Testing Destroys Student Voice

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Nancy Bailey

February 10, 2021

Curmudgucation: New Horizons in Workplace Surveillance

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Peter Greene

February 9, 2021

Shanker Blog: Re-Imagining School Discipline: A Plea To Education Leaders

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Lauren Schneider

February 8, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Remodeling the Age Graded School?

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Larry Cuban

February 5, 2021

Black & Smart: Stop Using Black Children as an Excuse to Open Your Schools

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Gloria Ladson-Billings

February 4, 2021

Janresseger: Washington Post Joins NY Times to Demand Reinstatement of Standardized Tests in Schools this Spring: It Is Still a Bad Idea

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Jan Resseger

February 3, 2021

Alfie Kohn: The Tests Are Lousy, So How Could the Scores Be Meaningful?

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Alfie Kohn

February 2, 2021

School Finance 101: Getting School Finance Indicators Right

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Bruce D. Baker

February 1, 2021

Cloaking Inequity: Using Data and Research to Unlearn Chait’s False Opinion About Charter Schools

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

January 29, 2021

Answer Sheet: How Much Learning is Really ‘Lost’ When Children Aren’t in School Buildings?

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Valerie Strauss and Alfie Kohn

January 27, 2021

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Three Big-City Superintendents: We Need a Marshall Plan for Our Schools: Now!

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Diane Ravitch

January 26, 2021

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: McKinsey & Company Uses Falling Behind Talk to Ramp Up School Toughness

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Nancy Bailey

January 25, 2021

Curmudgucation: More Teacher Effectiveness Mirages

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Peter Greene

January 22, 2021

AlterNet: A Flood of New Charters Shows How the Industry May Try to Thrive — Despite the Pandemic

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Jeff Bryant

January 21, 2021

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Does the Pandemic Help Us Make Education More Equitable? (Pasi Sahlberg) (Guest Post by Pasi Sahlberg)

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Larry Cuban and Pasi Sahlberg

January 19, 2021

Hack Education: Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work

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Audrey Watters

January 15, 2021

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research

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David Labaree

January 13, 2021

Answer Sheet: 'Black Lives Matter at School’ — A New Book on Anti-Racist Work in Education

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Valerie Strauss

January 13, 2021

Curmudgucation: How Does Education Fix Poverty? Spoiler Alert...

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Peter Greene

January 12, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: Will PA Schools Ask Parents to Oversee CDT Testing at Home?

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Steven Singer

January 11, 2021

Janresseger: Public Schools Need the Modest Dollars in Current Fiscal Relief Package, But Addressing Educational Injustice Will Take Much More

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Jan Resseger

January 8, 2021

Jersey Jazzman: New Jersey's School COVID-19 Operating Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded for Many Students

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Jersey Jazzman

January 7, 2021

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Carol Burris: How Charter Schools Cashed in on the Paycheck Protection Program

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Diane Ravitch and Carol C. Burris

January 5, 2021

Curmudgucation: No, There Really Doesn't Need to be a Big Spring Test in 2021

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Peter Greene

January 4, 2021

Truthout: DeVos Is on Her Way Out, But Public Education Is Still Very Much Under Attack

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Jeff Bryant

December 23, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: Writing as an Academic and Scholar

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P.L. Thomas

December 22, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: How Has School Privatization Contributed to Mental Illness in Students Before and During Covid-19?

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Nancy Bailey

December 21, 2020

Curmudgucation: School Marketing Is a Thing -- But Not a Good One

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Peter Greene

December 17, 2020

Diane Ravitch's Blog: To Test or Not to Test, That Is the Question

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Diane Ravitch

December 16, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Schools and the Economy–Not Yet a Faddish Idea

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Larry Cuban

December 14, 2020

Janresseger: Nobody Should Be Wasting Time Worrying About When to Administer Standardized Tests

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Jan Resseger

December 14, 2020

Ed in the Apple: Education in a Biden Presidency in a Deeply Divided Nation: What Can We Expect?

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Peter Goodman

December 11, 2020

Curmudgucation: FL: Big Brother Is Watching Your Child

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Peter Greene

December 10, 2020

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Researcher Says Law Hiding Fiscal Effects of ‘Tax-Credit Vouchers’ from Public View Undermines Valid Analysis

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Maureen Downey and Kevin G. Welner

December 9, 2020

Answer Sheet: What Public Education Advocates Want to See in Biden’s Pick to Succeed Betsy DeVos

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Valerie Strauss, Carol C. Burris, and Diane Ravitch

December 8, 2020

UCL Institute of Education: Does Class Size Matter? We’ll Get a Better Answer If We Rethink the Debate

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Peter Blatchford and Anthony Russell

December 4, 2020

Teacher in a Strange Land: Public Schools. Public.

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Nancy Flanagan

December 3, 2020

Hack Education: What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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Audrey Watters

December 2, 2020

Answer Sheet: New Federal Data Shows Black Preschoolers Still Disciplined at Far Higher Rates Than Whites

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Valerie Strauss

December 1, 2020

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Kevin Welner: The Urgent De-Vos-Ing of the Department of Education

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Diane Ravitch and Kevin G. Welner

November 30, 2020

Curmudgucation: Survey: Pandemic Effects on Early Childhood Education

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Peter Greene

November 25, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened To Vocational Education?

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Larry Cuban

November 24, 2020

Janresseger: Ohio Legislature Looks to Adopt New School Finance Plan During 2020 Lame Duck Session

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Jan Resseger

November 23, 2020

Ed in the Apple: How is New York City Increasing Student Outcomes in the COVID World? How about More Standardized Tests and Evaluating/Rating Teacher Remote Instruction?

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Peter Goodman

November 20, 2020

Curmudgucation: Schooling for Democracy (Or What is Education For)

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Peter Greene

November 19, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Kindergarten Pandemic Learning Fears Should Not Be Tied to Screen Time and Rigid Drilling

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Nancy Bailey

November 18, 2020

Shanker Blog: One Page Summaries of Your State's School Finance System

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 17, 2020

VAMboozled!: New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 16, 2020

Teacher in a Strange Land: Rule Followers, Unite! And Stay Alive…

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Nancy Flanagan

November 12, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: As More Students Head Back, Here’s What We Now Know (And Still Don’t) about Schools and COVID Spread (Matt Barnum) (Guest Post by Matt Barnum)

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Matt Barnum

November 11, 2020

Curmudgucation: Is It Time for the Internet to Be a School-Managed Public Utility?

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Peter Greene

November 10, 2020

Answer Sheet: Teaching Kids to Spot Misinformation on Social Media — And Whether Enough is Being Done to Get Rid of It

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Valerie Strauss

November 9, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Does Classroom Use of Computers Cause Gains in Students’ Academic Achievement?

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Larry Cuban

November 6, 2020

Janresseger: Public Schools: Our Democracy’s Essential Institution

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Jan Resseger

November 5, 2020

Shanker Blog: How Much Segregation Is There Within Schools?

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 4, 2020

Ed in the Apple: Bill Gates’ Quest for the Mythical Magic Bullet: Next Quest: Algebra 1

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Peter Goodman

November 3, 2020

Teacher in a Strange Land: It’s the Right Time to Stop the Overdose of Standardized Testing

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Nancy Flanagan

November 2, 2020

Our Schools: How Online Learning Companies Are Using the Pandemic to Take Over Classroom Teaching

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Jeff Bryant

October 30, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Selling Charter School Class Size as “Innovative Medical Experimentation” During Covid-19

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Nancy Bailey

October 29, 2020

Curmudgucation: AI: Still Not Ready for Prime Time

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Peter Greene

October 27, 2020

Answer Sheet: Going Back to School: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

October 26, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Authentic Assessment?

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Larry Cuban

October 23, 2020

Janresseger: COVID-19 Widens Inequality Among America’s Young People, But So Far, There is No Plan to Address It

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Jan Resseger

October 22, 2020

Hack Education: Cheating, Policing, and School Surveillance

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Audrey Watters

October 21, 2020

Curmudgucation: Covid Slide Panic Is Still Baloney

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Peter Greene

October 20, 2020

Have You Heard: The Rich and the Rest

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

October 19, 2020

The Conversation: Renowned Educator Paulo Freire Would Have Questioned How We Are Schooling Our Kids in the Age of COVID-19

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Antonia Darder and James D. Kirylo

October 16, 2020

Shanker Blog: Co-Teaching for Emerging Bilingual Learners: Theory and Practice

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Lauren Schneider

October 15, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: Patriotic Education and the Politics of Lies

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P.L. Thomas

October 14, 2020

Alfie Kohn: All of Us Are Smarter Than Any of Us

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Alfie Kohn

October 13, 2020

Learning Policy Institute: A World of Hardship: Deep Poverty and the Struggle for Educational Equity

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Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

October 12, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: When Algorithms Give Real Students Imaginary Grades (Meredith Broussard) (Guest Post by Meredith Broussard)

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Meredith Broussard

October 6, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: The School Reopening Gamble

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Jersey Jazzman

October 5, 2020

Janresseger: Framing a New Website Forced Us to Reconsider Public Education’s Core Principles

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Jan Resseger

October 2, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Covid-19 Take School Reform in a New and Different Direction?

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Larry Cuban

October 1, 2020

Hack Education: Selling the Future of Ed-Tech (& Shaping Our Imaginations)

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Audrey Watters

September 30, 2020

Code Acts in Education: Edtech Index Investing

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Ben Williamson

September 29, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: Racial and Class Bias in New Jersey's School Reopening Plans

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Jersey Jazzman

September 28, 2020

Curmudgucation: Scrap the Big Standardized Test This Year

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Peter Greene

September 25, 2020

Shanker Blog: Research and Evidence Can Help Guide Teachers During the Pandemic

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Sara Kerr and Nate Schwartz

September 24, 2020

Have You Heard: Mind the Gap: Why It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Achievement Gap

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

September 23, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Ends Do Not Justify the Means in the Lives and Education of Children

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P.L. Thomas

September 22, 2020

Our Schools/AlterNet: A Community of Color Was Failed by 30 Years of School Choice — Now Teachers Push a Positive Alternative

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Jeff Bryant

September 21, 2020

Janresseger: Biden and Democrats Turn Away from Two Decades of Test-Based Public School Accountability and Privatization

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Jan Resseger

September 18, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Are Students “Consumers”? (David Labaree) (Guest Post by David Labaree)

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Larry Cuban and David Labaree

September 17, 2020

Answer Sheet: Does Homework Work When Kids Are Learning All Day at Home?

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Valerie Strauss and Denise Pope

September 15, 2020

Teacher in a Strange Land: Pod Save Us: How Learning Pods are Going to Destroy Public Education. Or Not.

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Nancy Flanagan

September 15, 2020

Hack Education: 'Luddite Sensibilities' and the Future of Education

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Audrey Watters

September 14, 2020

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Public Schooling as Social Welfare

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David Labaree

September 11, 2020

Gadfly on the Wall: Parental Choice Won’t Save Us From Unsafe School Reopening Plans

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Steven Singer

September 9, 2020

Code Acts in Education: The Social Life of Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Ben Williamson

September 9, 2020

Education Writers Association: Education Surges to Top Tier of Presidential Race Amid Pandemic

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Madina Toure

September 8, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: State Aid Is School Aid

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Jersey Jazzman

September 4, 2020

Alfie Kohn: The Pandemic Pivot: Turning Temporary Changes into Lasting Reform

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Alfie Kohn

September 3, 2020

Curmudgucation: Country Club Pod School

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Peter Greene

September 2, 2020

Shanker Blog: We Choose to Reimagine Education: Centering on Love and Emotionally Responsive Teaching and Learning

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Tia C. Madkins and Alexis Patterson Williams

August 31, 2020

Diane Ravitch's Blog: David Berliner and Gene Glass: Why Bother Testing in 2021?

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Diane Ravitch and David C. Berliner

August 31, 2020

Curmudgucation: AEI: Previewing New Reformy Rhetoric

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Peter Greene

August 28, 2020

Have You Heard: Pandemic Pods: Parents, Privilege, Power and Politics

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

August 27, 2020

Janresseger: Network for Public Education Releases New Report on Charter School Closure, Churn, and Instability

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Jan Resseger

August 26, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Online Instruction for All

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Larry Cuban

August 25, 2020

The Conversation: 5 Reasons to Let Students Keep Their Cameras Off During Zoom Classes

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Tabitha Moses

August 24, 2020

Answer Sheet: Lessons From the Pandemic’s Education Pod Parents

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

August 21, 2020

Hack Education: Building Anti-Surveillance Ed-Tech

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Audrey Watters

August 20, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Covid-19 Experiment: Facing the Sins of a Nation that Quit Caring About Public Education Long Ago

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Nancy Bailey

August 19, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Problems with “Show Me the Research” in Teaching Reading

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P.L. Thomas

August 18, 2020

Diane Ravitch's Blog: David Berliner: The “Required Curriculum” vs. “The Not Required” Curriculum

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Diane Ravitch and David C. Berliner

August 14, 2020

Shanker Blog: State Budget Cuts and School Districts with Pre-Existing Conditions

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Matthew Di Carlo

August 13, 2020

Curmudgucation: Report: Zuckerberg’s Favorite Digital Ed Program is All Sizzle, No Steak

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Peter Greene

August 12, 2020

Have You Heard: Making the Grade

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

August 11, 2020

School Finance 101: The Post-Espinoza End Game

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Bruce D. Baker and Preston Green

August 10, 2020

Worlds of Education: "The Edtech Pandemic Shock", by Ben Williamson & Anna Hogan

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Ben Williamson and Anna Hogan

July 31, 2020

Janresseger: Federal CARES Act Public Education Relief Dollars Quietly Flow into the Coffers of Charter Schools and Private Schools

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Jan Resseger

July 30, 2020

Shanker Blog: The Pandemic and Federal Education Policy: From the Race to the Top to the Plunge to the Bottom

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Stan Karp

July 28, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: With Pass-Fail, What’s the Point of Grades? (Guest Post by Jack Schneider)

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Larry Cuban and Jack Schneider

July 28, 2020

Answer Sheet: Charter Schools and Their Management Companies Won at Least $925 Million in Federal Coronavirus Funding, Data Shows

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

July 27, 2020

Our Schools/Naked Capitalism: After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?

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Jeff Bryant and Yves Smith

July 24, 2020

Curmudgucation: AEI And The Commodification Of Education

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Peter Greene

July 23, 2020

Janresseger: Will Congress Provide Fiscal Relief to Public Schools at an Austerity, Subsistence, or Investment Level?

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Jan Resseger

July 22, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: How Schools Work: A Practical Guide for Policymakers During a Pandemic

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Jersey Jazzman

July 21, 2020

Gadfly on the Wall: Do NOT Play Russian Roulette with Our Lives – No In-Person Schooling During a Pandemic

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Steven Singer

July 20, 2020

Shanker Blog: Five Things Not To Do When Schools Re-open

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Pasi Sahlberg

July 17, 2020

Mike Klonsky’s Blog: The AAP’s School Guidance Principles Don’t Align with Trump/DeVos Mandated Reopening.

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Mike Klonsky

July 16, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Facing Uncertainty: Opening Schools During a Pandemic

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Larry Cuban

July 14, 2020

Our Schools: Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic

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Jeff Bryant

July 14, 2020

Curmudgucation: No, Software Still Can't Grade Student Essays

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Peter Greene

July 13, 2020

Chutzpah and the Push for In-Person Instruction

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Kevin G. Welner

July 8, 2020

Answer Sheet: How the Supreme Court’s Decision on Religious Schools Just Eroded the Separation Between Church and State

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

July 8, 2020

Have You Heard: Mail Order Schools: The Past and Present of Distance Learning

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

July 7, 2020

Janresseger: Public Funds Public Schools Website Provides Compendium of Research on School Vouchers

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Jan Resseger

July 6, 2020

Answer Sheet: New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform

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Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

June 25, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: On Comparing Education Spending Across Time

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Jersey Jazzman

June 19, 2020

Cloaking Inequity: Breaking News: New Study Finds Online Charters Perform Poorly

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

June 18, 2020

Shanker Blog: Teaching During School Shutdowns Should be a Team Sport

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Susan Moore Johnson

June 16, 2020

Have You Heard: The Right to Read

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

June 15, 2020

Shanker Blog: Coronavirus is a Risk to Education in America: A Comprehensive National Response is Needed

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Stan Litow

June 11, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Class Divide: Remote Learning at 2 Schools, Private and Public (Dana Goldstein) (Guest Post by Dana Goldstein)

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Larry Cuban and Dana Goldstein

June 11, 2020

Janresseger: Misguiding Public School Policy: The Role of Giant Philanthropy and Technocracy

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Jan Resseger

June 10, 2020

Our Future: New Mexico Shows How Public Ed Can Thrive After COVID-19

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Jeff Bryant

June 9, 2020

Gadfly on the Wall: Why High Stakes Testing Was Cancelled This Year (and Probably Will Be Next Year, Too)

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Steven Singer

June 8, 2020

Have You Heard: States of Shock: The Coming Budget Calamity

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

June 5, 2020

Curmudgucation: Why Shouldn't High Stakes Testing Be Abandoned Next Year?

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Peter Greene

June 4, 2020

Answer Sheet: Did Some Charter Schools Double-Dip in Federal Coronavirus Relief Funding?

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Valerie Strauss, Carol C. Burris, and Marla Kilfoyle

June 3, 2020

Alfie Kohn: Out of Control: Taking Liberties with Autonomy During a Pandemic

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Alfie Kohn

June 2, 2020

Sherman Dorn: Will the Cultural Script of “School” Change?

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Sherman Dorn

June 1, 2020

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: David Berliner: Kids Missing School? Don’t Worry.

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Diane Ravitch and David C. Berliner

May 29, 2020

Education Law Prof Blog: Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-Income Students Will Shortchange At-Risk Kids

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Derek W. Black

May 28, 2020

Shanker Blog: What's Next for Schools After Coronavirus? Here Are 5 Big Issues and Opportunities

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Andy Hargreaves

May 27, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The School Year Really Ended in March (Susan Dynarski) (Guest Post by Susan Dynarski)

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Larry Cuban and Susan Dynarski

May 26, 2020

Janresseger: NY Times Editorial: Together We Are Responsible for Equalizing Educational Opportunity Between Cities and Suburbs

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Jan Resseger

May 21, 2020

Our Future: Financial Tsunami Heads Toward the Nation's Schools

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Jeff Bryant

May 21, 2020

Gadfly on the Wall: The Internet is NOT the Best Place for Kids to Learn After the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Steven Singer

May 20, 2020

Shanker Blog: Educational Equity During A Pandemic

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Peter Levine

May 19, 2020

Hack Education: Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

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Audrey Watters

May 18, 2020

Yong Zhao: From “Yes, but” to “Yes, and…:” Reimagine Possibilities and Obstacles of Educational Change

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Yong Zhao

May 15, 2020

Have You Heard: The Right to Read

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

May 14, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Reform Metaphors: The Pendulum and Hurricane

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Larry Cuban

May 13, 2020

Curmudgucation: Another Voucher Angle: Child Safety Accounts

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Peter Greene

May 12, 2020

Janresseger: The Importance of Public Schooling and What Has to Change When Schools Reopen

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Jan Resseger

May 11, 2020

Code Acts in Education: Edtech, Coronavirus, and Commercialization in Public Education

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Ben Williamson

May 8, 2020

Our Future: Homeschool Entrepreneurs Love COVID-19

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Jeff Bryant

May 7, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: When Schools Re-Open

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Larry Cuban

May 6, 2020

Shanker Blog: The Crucial Role of State Policy in the Impending School Budget Crisis

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 5, 2020

Answer Sheet: Teachers, Parents and Principals Tell Their Stories About Remote Learning

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

May 4, 2020

Yong Zhao: Reimagine the “Grammar” of Schooling Part 2 of Tofu is not Cheese: Reimagine Education without Schools During Covid19

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Yong Zhao

May 1, 2020

Janresseger: A Public School Evaluation System That Fails to Account for What We Value

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Jan Resseger

April 30, 2020

Another View: AV #209 - Being Together in the Classroom - Part 2

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Peter Huidekoper Jr.

April 29, 2020

Another View: AV #208 - Being Together in the Classroom - Part 1 (Laughing)

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Peter Huidekoper Jr.

April 28, 2020

Big Picture Learning: Connections, Consistency & Care

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Jeff Palladino

April 27, 2020

Education Law Center: New York’s Pandemic Adjustment: Depriving Resources to Students Impacted by COVID-19

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Mary McKillip and David Sciarra

April 24, 2020

Curmudgucation: We’re About to Hear Many Suggestions About How to Reshape Education. Here’s How to Sort Them Out.

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Peter Greene

April 22, 2020

VAMboozled!: Special Issue: Moving Teacher Evaluation Forward

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April 20, 2020

Teacher in a Strange Land: If Technology Can’t Save Us, What Will?

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Nancy Flanagan

April 17, 2020

Janresseger: Coronavirus School Closures Will Force Us to Examine Failure of Standards-Based School Accountability

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Jan Resseger

April 16, 2020

Yong Zhao: Tofu is not Cheese: Reimagine Education without Schools During Covid19 (1)

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Yong Zhao

April 15, 2020

Code Acts in Education: New Pandemic Edtech Power Networks

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Ben Williamson

April 14, 2020

Answer Sheet: New York’s Andrew Cuomo Asked Why the Country Wasn’t Ready for a Mass Shift to Online Education. Here’s Why.

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Valerie Strauss

April 13, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Schools, the Coronavirus, and the Near Future (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

April 10, 2020

Answer Sheet: How Schools are Missing a Chance to Try Something New During the Pandemic

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Valerie Strauss and Katherine Schultz

April 9, 2020

Yong Zhao: Beyond Does It Work: Meaningful Questions to Ask about Online Education Amid COVID-19

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Yong Zhao

April 8, 2020

Sam Chaltain: A Parent Guide to Home Learning During the Coronavirus

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Sam Chaltain

April 7, 2020

Shanker Blog: The Inequities of AP and SAT Exams Amid Covid-19

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Emilee O'Brien

April 6, 2020

Have You Heard: Pandemic: School Closures Past, Present, Future

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

April 3, 2020

Mike Rose’s Blog: Risk and Everyday Heroes

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Mike Rose

April 2, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Schools, the Coronavirus, and the Near Future (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 1, 2020

Yong Zhao: Does it Work? The Most Meaningless Question to Ask about Online Education

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Yong Zhao

March 31, 2020

Cloaking Inequity: How Does KIPP Charter Really Treat Parents?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

March 26, 2020

10th Period: Facts Matter: A Primer on Private School Voucher Misinformation

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Stephen Dyer

March 25, 2020

Janresseger: Schools Alone Cannot Save Children from Economic Inequality. Public Policy Must Assist Families in Deep Poverty

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Jan Resseger

March 23, 2020

Yong Zhao: PISA Peculiarities (4): High Test Scores, Low Life Satisfaction

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Yong Zhao

March 19, 2020

Curmudgucation: How Do High Expectations Change a Classroom

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Peter Greene

March 18, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Real Reading Debate and How We Fail to Teach Reading

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P.L. Thomas

March 17, 2020

Shanker Blog: Interpreting School Finance Measures

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 16, 2020

Expertise@Scale: How Do I Move My Class Online This Week?

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Chinmay Kulkarni and Julia Cambre

March 13, 2020

Answer Sheet: At This High-Poverty High School, College Comes Early to Students

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 12, 2020

Equity Alliance: Making School Choice More Equitable in an Era of Rising Inequality

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Erica Frankenberg

March 11, 2020

Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You (Part 2)

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Jeff Bryant

March 10, 2020

Janresseger: Billionaire Power? Two Decades of Education Policy Are a Cautionary Tale

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Jan Resseger

March 9, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Reforms That Are Persistent and Admired but Marginal (Part 3)

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Larry Cuban

March 6, 2020

Cloaking Inequity: The Total Neoliberal Misrepresentation of the Recent History of Indianapolis K12 Education (Guest Post by Jim Scheurich)

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James Scheurich

March 5, 2020

Our Schools/Truthdig: Could Corporations Control What's Taught in Our Public Schools?

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Jeff Bryant

March 4, 2020

Curmudgucation: What Charter Advocates Want From States

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Peter Greene

March 3, 2020

Code Acts in Education: Re-Engineering Education

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Ben Williamson

March 2, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Reforms That Are Persistent and Admired But Marginal (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

February 28, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: The Science of Reading Plot to Replace Reading Teachers with Phonics on a Screen

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Nancy Bailey

February 27, 2020

Our Future: Amazon is Coming to a School Near You

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Jeff Bryant

February 26, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: What Federal and State Reading Legislation Should and Should Not Do

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P.L. Thomas

February 25, 2020

Curmudgucation: NY: Police State High School is On Line

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Peter Greene

February 24, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Reforms That Are Persistent and Admired But Marginal (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

February 21, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: Sorry, NJ Charter Schools -- You Can't Have It Both Ways

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Jersey Jazzman

February 20, 2020

Our Schools: How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools

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Jeff Bryant

February 19, 2020

Janresseger: Ohio House Passes Emergency Amendment Which Would Solve Some EdChoice Voucher Problems

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Jan Resseger

February 18, 2020

VAMboozled!: NCTQ on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems’ Failures, Again

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February 17, 2020

Yong Zhao: PISA Peculiarities (3): More Fear, Better Scores

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Yong Zhao

February 14, 2020

Answer Sheet: This Successful School Doesn’t Do Things Like Many Other Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

February 13, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: Understanding the “Science of Reading”: A Reader

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P.L. Thomas

February 12, 2020

Mike Rose’s Blog: Some Thoughts on Character Education, Non-Cognitive Skills, Grit, and the Formation of Public Discourse about Education

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Mike Rose

February 11, 2020

Gadfly on the Wall: The Ongoing Study of How and When Teachers Should Praise Students

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Steven Singer

February 10, 2020

Janresseger: EdChoice Voucher Negotiations Break Down in Ohio: Four Questions Must Be Addressed in 60-Day Delay

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Jan Resseger

February 7, 2020

Yong Zhao: PISA Peculiarities (2): Should Schools Promote a Competitive or Cooperative Culture?

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Yong Zhao

February 6, 2020

Shanker Blog: Making the Case for Multidisciplinary Sex Ed

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Emilee O'Brien

February 5, 2020

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Pluck vs. Luck

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David Labaree

February 3, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Programs Put Reading Last

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P.L. Thomas

January 31, 2020

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Students with Disabilities: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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Nancy Bailey

January 30, 2020

Alfie Kohn: Autism and Behaviorism: New Research Adds to an Already Compelling Case Against ABA

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Alfie Kohn

January 29, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: Hoboken, NJ Charter Schools: An Update for 2020

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Jersey Jazzman

January 28, 2020

Janresseger: Educational Redlining: GreatSchools Ratings Drive Housing Segregation

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Jan Resseger

January 27, 2020

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: The Life and Death of the Terrible Education Reform Movement

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Gary Rubinstein

January 24, 2020

VAMboozled!: Teacher Evaluation Recommendations Endorsed by the Educational Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association (APA)

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 23, 2020

Our Future: Charter Schools’ Billion-Dollar Fraud Stinks Worse Than We Thought

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Jeff Bryant

January 22, 2020

Janresseger: Vouchers: Should States Be Subsidizing Private Education at a Steep Cost to Public Schools?

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Jan Resseger

January 21, 2020

Radical Eyes for Equity: Recommended: Literacy Crises: False Claims and Real Solutions, Jeff McQuillan

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P.L. Thomas

January 17, 2020

Jersey Jazzman: The Misleading Rhetoric of School "Choice" Advocates: Wealth and "Choice"

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Jersey Jazzman

January 15, 2020

10th Period: State Data: 8 in 10 Public Districts Outperform Private, Voucher Schools in the Same Community

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Stephen Dyer

January 14, 2020

Curmudgucation: NC: Whitewashing The Charter Report

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Peter Greene

January 13, 2020

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Reform Funded Research: Winning KIPP Lottery Does Not Significantly Increase Chance of Persisting in College

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Gary Rubinstein

January 10, 2020

Yong Zhao: PISA Peculiarities (1): Why Doesn’t Growth Mindset Work for Chinese Students?

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Yong Zhao

January 9, 2020

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: GreatSchools Ratings Are Skewed (Matt Barnum, Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee)

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Larry Cuban, Matt Barnum, and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee

January 8, 2020

Answer Sheet: The Surprising Source of Key Data in a Report Critical of U.S. Charter School Program

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 7, 2020

Curmudgucation: Fordham: Teachers Are Downloading Junk

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Peter Greene

December 20, 2019

The Conversation: 5 New Ways for Schools to Work with Families

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Ann M. Ishimaru, Megan Bang, and Michelle Renée Valladares

December 19, 2019

Shanker Blog: The Structure of School Segregation in the D.C. Metro Area

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Matthew Di Carlo

December 18, 2019

VAMboozled!: Teachers “Grow” Their Students’ Heights as Much as Their Achievement

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 17, 2019

Curmudgucation: Can Rich Content Improve Education?

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Peter Greene

December 16, 2019

Answer Sheet: Report: Federal Government Wasted Millions of Dollars on Charter Schools that Never Opened

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Valerie Strauss

December 13, 2019

Yong Zhao: The PISA Illusion

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Yong Zhao

December 12, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to “No Excuses” Schools?

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Larry Cuban

December 11, 2019

Curmudgucation: Ed Tech Giant Powerschool Keeps Eating the World

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Peter Greene

December 9, 2019

Equity Alliance Blog: Unaccompanied Minors: Considerations About Their Education

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Angela E. Arzubiaga

December 6, 2019

Shanker Blog: Consent in the Digital Age: Lessons from Katie Hill

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Emilee O'Brien

December 5, 2019

Answer Sheet: At This School in Maine, the Entire State is the Classroom

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

December 4, 2019

Hack Education: Ed-Tech Agitprop

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Audrey Watters

December 3, 2019

Janresseger: Beware: Opponents of Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan Have a Vested Interest in Expanding School Privatization

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Jan Resseger

November 27, 2019

Curmudgucation: TN: Doubling Down on Bad Reading Policy

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Peter Greene

November 26, 2019

Answer Sheet: Um, That’s Not What Warren Actually Said About Charter Schools

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

November 25, 2019

Code Acts in Education: Platform Teachers

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Ben Williamson

November 22, 2019

Answer Sheet: Today’s Kids Might Be Digital Natives — But a New Study Shows They Aren’t Close to Being Computer Literate

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Valerie Strauss and Sara Dexter

November 21, 2019

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Success Academy Class of 2020 Sheds 239 Scholars Along the Way

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Gary Rubinstein

November 20, 2019

Janresseger: EdChoice Voucher Expansion in Ohio Creates a New Kind of School Funding Inequity

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Jan Resseger

November 18, 2019

Radical Eyes for Equity: What Is the Relationship among NAEP Scores, Educational Policy, and Classroom Practice?

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P.L. Thomas

November 15, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Case for Teaching about Sharks and Mummies, Not Captions and the Main Idea (Guest Post by Natalie Wexler)

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Larry Cuban and Natalie Wexler

November 14, 2019

Curmudgucation: Digital Curriculum and Lesson Management is a Crock

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Peter Greene

November 13, 2019

Shanker Blog: Social Identity Development in the Age of Accountability

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Emilee O'Brien

November 12, 2019

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Big Lie about the “Science of Reading”: NAEP 2019 Edition

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P.L. Thomas

November 11, 2019

Mike Rose’s Blog: “What You See Depends on Where You Sit, and for How Long”: On Perception and Knowledge

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Mike Rose

November 8, 2019

VT Digger: William J. Mathis: Beat the Dead Horse Harder

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William J. Mathis

November 7, 2019

The Conversation: How Much of a Difference Does the Number of Kids in a Classroom Make?

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November 6, 2019

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Does Louisiana Really Lead the Nation In 8th Grade Math Gains?

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Gary Rubinstein

November 5, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Haunted Third Grade Classrooms Children Fear: Enter and… Stay Forever!

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Nancy Bailey

November 1, 2019

Curmudgucation: NYC: Testing Is Still Not Teaching

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Peter Greene

October 31, 2019

Janresseger: Enough Basic Staffing and More Community Schools: Two Important But Different Issues

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Jan Resseger

October 29, 2019

OurFuture.org: How Charter-School Billionaires Corrupt School Leadership

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Jeff Bryant

October 28, 2019

Shanker Blog: A Problem Hiding In Plain Sight (Guest Post by Natalie Wexler)

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Natalie Wexler

October 25, 2019

Curmudgucation: Are State Takeovers a Useful Tool

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Peter Greene

October 24, 2019

Alfie Kohn: It’s Time to Rethink Education Policy: Advice for the Democratic Presidential Candidates

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Alfie Kohn

October 22, 2019

Answer Sheet: Yes, Teacher-Preparation Programs Need To Be Fixed — But More Than 350 Education Leaders Say Reforms Are ‘Making Things Worse’

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Valerie Strauss

October 21, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching with Technology in Public Schools

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Larry Cuban

October 18, 2019

VAMboozled!: Mapping America’s Teacher Evaluation Plans Under ESSA

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 17, 2019

Curmudgucation: Why You Can Ignore That Hot New DFER Poll

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Peter Greene

October 16, 2019

Code Acts in Education: Psychodata

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Ben Williamson

October 15, 2019

Shanker Blog: The False Choice of Growth Versus Proficiency

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Matthew Di Carlo

October 14, 2019

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Teachers Are More Stressed Out Than You Probably Think

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Steven Singer

October 10, 2019

Radical Eyes for Equity: Unsweet Tea: On Tokenism, Whiteness, and the Promise of Culturally Relevant Teaching

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P.L. Thomas

October 4, 2019

Mike Rose's Blog: Small Thoughts on Giving Money Away: A Modest Proposal for Educational Philanthropy

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Mike Rose

October 3, 2019

Code Acts in Education: EdTech Resistance

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Ben Williamson

October 1, 2019

Our Schools: Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts

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Jeff Bryant

September 30, 2019

Janresseger: From Stanford’s Sean Reardon: Schools Alone Cannot Overcome Racial Achievement Gaps Caused By Concentrated Poverty

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Jan Resseger

September 27, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Techno-Optimism Meets Schools: Schools Win (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

September 25, 2019

Curmudgucation: ALEC Issues a Report Card, But Still Fails

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Peter Greene

September 24, 2019

Janresseger: New Reports Confirm Persistent Child Poverty While Policymakers Blame Educators and Fail to Address Core Problem

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Jan Resseger

September 20, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Play v. Reading: How Flawed Thinking About Preschool Has Become Accepted Practice

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Nancy Bailey

September 19, 2019

School Finance 101: On Teachers & Teacher Bashing

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Bruce D. Baker

September 18, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: The State of New Jersey's Teachers, Part 2: A Failure To Achieve Diversity

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Jersey Jazzman

September 17, 2019

Have You Heard: The Back to School Episode

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

September 16, 2019

Shanker Blog: The Progressive School Funding Option

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Matthew Di Carlo

September 13, 2019

Curmudgucation: Online Pre-K Continues To Spread Like A Big Stupid Plague

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Peter Greene

September 12, 2019

Mike Rose's Blog: My Immigrant Grandfather Stood on His Own Two Feet – Until He Lost One of Them in American Industry

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Mike Rose

September 10, 2019

Hack Education: Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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Audrey Watters

September 9, 2019

Answer Sheet: Some ‘No-Excuses’ Charter Schools Say They Are Changing. Are They? Can They?

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Valerie Strauss, Mira Debs, Joanne W. Golann, and Chris Torres

September 5, 2019

Gotham Gazette: Why It’s Time to Re-Think Bloomberg Era Gifted & Talented Programming in New York City

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Amy Stuart Wells and NeQuan C. McLean

September 4, 2019

Ed in the Apple: Is the Opposition to Phasing Out Gifted Classes Based on Research or Implied Bias?

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Peter Goodman

September 4, 2019

Curmudgucation: PA: Poorer Districts Worst Hit by Cyber Schools

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Peter Greene

September 3, 2019

Have You Heard: Anatomy of a Charter School Fraud

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Jennifer Berkshire, Will Huntsberry, and Preston Green

August 30, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Technology Cheating Problem Is Still a Problem

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Nancy Bailey

August 29, 2019

VAMboozled!: The Utility of Student Perception Surveys to Give Teachers Feedback: An Introduction to the My Teacher Questionnaire (Guest Post by Rikkert van der Lans)

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Rikkert van der Lans and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 28, 2019

School Finance 101: School Facilities Matter! In So Many Ways (How Could They Not?)

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Bruce D. Baker

August 27, 2019

Answer Sheet: Six Ways Trump’s New ‘Public Benefits’ Immigration Policies Could Hurt Children and Schools

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Holly Kurtz

August 26, 2019

David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Targeting Teachers

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David Labaree

August 23, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: The Merit Pay Fairy Dies in Newark

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Jersey Jazzman

August 22, 2019

Radical Eyes for Equity: Breaking the Gender Codes of Dress Codes

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P.L. Thomas

August 20, 2019

ImmigrationProf Blog: Educators Supporting Immigrant Families

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Ming Hsu Chen

August 19, 2019

Janresseger: When Traditional Public School Educators Set Public Policy and Speak for Public Schools, It Makes a Difference

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Jan Resseger

August 16, 2019

The Conversation: Curious Kids: Is Homework Worthwhile?

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Robert H. Tai

August 15, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Bread Crumbs and School Reform

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Larry Cuban

August 14, 2019

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Six Problems with a Growth Mindset in Education

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Steven Singer

August 13, 2019

The Conversation: Charter School Cap Efforts Gain Momentum

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Matthew Gardner Kelly

August 12, 2019

Have You Heard: The Case for Making College Free

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

August 9, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Do Teachers Teach–Then and Now

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Larry Cuban

August 8, 2019

Janresseger: State Takeovers: Radical Seizure of School Districts vs. Organic, Community Grounded School Improvement

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Jan Resseger

August 7, 2019

Cloaking Inequity: New Study Released: Are Charter Schools More Intensely Segregated?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

August 6, 2019

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: The Missed Opportunity Myth

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Gary Rubinstein

August 5, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: What's Really Happening in Camden's Schools?

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Jersey Jazzman

July 26, 2019

Shanker Blog: The Role of States in Teacher Pay Gaps

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Matthew Di Carlo

July 25, 2019

VT Digger: William Mathis: Who Likes School Test Scores? Almost No One

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William J. Mathis

July 24, 2019

Curmudgucation: Are These Lessons to Learn from Cyberschools?

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Peter Greene

July 23, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Tech Innovations and School Reform: Blood Cousins

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Larry Cuban

July 11, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Who Put the "Stakes" in "High-Stakes Testing"?

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Jersey Jazzman

July 10, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Social-Emotional Learning’s Transformation of Schools is Worrisome

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Nancy Bailey

July 9, 2019

Our Schools: Why Many School Districts Are Being Set Up for Fiscal Failure

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Jeff Bryant

July 8, 2019

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Standardized Tests Are Not Objective Measures of Anything

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Steven Singer

July 5, 2019

Answer Sheet: What Research Really Says about Closing Schools — and Why It’s a Bad Idea for Kids

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Valerie Strauss and Michelle Renée Valladares

July 3, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: The Facts About Newark's Schools: An Update

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Jersey Jazzman

July 2, 2019

Janresseger: As Ohio Budget Negotiations Drag On, Conference Committee Should Leave State School Takeovers Out of the Budget

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Jan Resseger

July 1, 2019

Have You Heard: Michigan’s School Choice Mess

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

June 28, 2019

Shanker Blog: Charter Schools and Teacher Diversity

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Matthew Di Carlo

June 27, 2019

Answer Sheet: A Report that Detailed up to $1 Billion in Wasted Federal Funds on Bad Charter Schools May Have Underestimated the Problem

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

June 25, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Things Education "Reformers" Still Don't Understand About Testing

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Jersey Jazzman

June 24, 2019

Curmudgucation: Five Reasons School Takeovers Fail

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Peter Greene

June 21, 2019

Janresseger: In Florida’s Tangled Mess of School Privatization, Students Rights are Trampled, Tax Dollars Wasted

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Jan Resseger

June 20, 2019

Shanker Blog: Does College Matter? Of Course (Guest post by Stan Litow)

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Stan Litow

June 19, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: In Classrooms: Social Justice Humanitas Academy (Part 5)

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Larry Cuban

June 18, 2019

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Charter Schools Will Always Waste Money Because They Duplicate Services

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Steven Singer

June 17, 2019

Have You Heard: White Homebuyers, Black Neighborhoods and the Future of Urban Schools

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

June 14, 2019

The Conversation: School Vouchers Expand Despite Evidence of Negative Effects

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Christopher Lubienski and Joel R. Malin

June 13, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Problem with Too Much Screen Time and Too Little Privacy is Parents (Anya Kamenetz) (Guest Post by Anya Kamenetz)

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Anya Kamenetz

June 12, 2019

Radical Eyes for Equity: Checklist: Media Coverage of the “Science of Reading”

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P.L. Thomas

June 11, 2019

Janresseger: State School Rankings and School Report Cards Drive Racial and Economic Segregation

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Jan Resseger

June 10, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Learning Disability Teaching Credentials that Time Forgot

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Nancy Bailey

June 6, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: NJ's Student Growth Measures (SGPs): Still Biased, Still Used Inappropriately

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Jersey Jazzman

June 5, 2019

Sherman Dorn: Democratic Politics and Charter Schools, Brief Gloss

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Sherman Dorn

June 4, 2019

Medium: Media Misreading the Reading Crisis Yet Again

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Katie Kelly and P.L. Thomas

June 3, 2019

Janresseger: EXTRA: Ohio Senate’s School Transformation Plan to Replace HB 70 is Still a State Takeover

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Jan Resseger

May 31, 2019

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: US News and World Report Closes Cheating Loophole — Charters Tank

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Gary Rubinstein

May 30, 2019

Answer Sheet: New Report on Virtual Education: 'It Sure Sounds Good. As It Turns Out, It's Too Good To Be True.'

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Valerie Strauss and Alex Molnar

May 29, 2019

Curmudgucation: Can Personalized Learning Deliver

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Peter Greene

May 28, 2019

VAMboozled!: States’ Math and Reading Performance After the Implementation of School A-F Letter Grade Policies

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 24, 2019

OurFuture.org: Epic Fail of Charter Schools in Louisiana

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Jeff Bryant

May 23, 2019

Answer Sheet: Here are 7 'Schools of Opportunity’ that 'Show Us a Way Forward’

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, Linda Molner Kelley, and Adam York

May 22, 2019

Re-imagining Migration: Immigration, Schools, and the Census

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John Rogers

May 21, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Stuff Journalists Should Know About Charter Schools

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Jersey Jazzman

May 20, 2019

Janresseger: Shady Exit of Youngstown’s Appointed School CEO Exemplifies the Failure of Ohio School Takeover Law

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Jan Resseger

May 17, 2019

Answer Sheet: Why School Integration Works

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Valerie Strauss and Rucker C. Johnson

May 16, 2019

Living in Dialogue: The Test of Our Time: Can We Break the Shackles of NCLB?

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Monty Neill

May 15, 2019

Curmudgucation: DFER Tries to Swing a Primary

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Peter Greene

May 14, 2019

Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis: The High School Rankings: Born on Third Base or Hit a Triple?

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Diane Ravitch

May 13, 2019

Our Schools: Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them

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Jeff Bryant

May 10, 2019

Answer Sheet: House Democrats Seek Cut in Federal Charter School Funding, Saying Education Department Isn’t a ‘Responsible Steward of Taxpayer Dollars’

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

May 9, 2019

Shanker Blog: Federal Educational Investments Are Essential (Guest Post by Stan Litow)

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Stan Litow

May 8, 2019

Have You Heard: Different Strokes for Different Folks?

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

May 7, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: How NOT to Evaluate Education Policy: A Newark Example

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Jersey Jazzman

May 6, 2019

Our Schools: Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement for Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

May 3, 2019

Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern?

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Jan Resseger

May 2, 2019

Code Acts in Education: Learning from Surveillance Capitalism

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Ben Williamson

May 1, 2019

Answer Sheet: How Corporate Interests are Overtaking Well-Intentioned Goals of Personalized Learning

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Valerie Strauss, Faith Boninger, and Alex Molnar

April 30, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Making Schools Business-Like: Google in Classrooms (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

April 29, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Making Schools Business-Like: The Longest School Reform in U.S. History? (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 26, 2019

Curmudgucation: Using Cultural Competency to Sell Personalized [sic] Learning

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

April 25, 2019

Psychology Today: The Problems with Parental Notifications and "Opt-Outs"

Blog Post of the Day

Elizabeth J. Meyer

April 24, 2019

Our Schools: Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos was Confronted with Her Department’s Charter School Fraud

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

April 23, 2019

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Kansas: Students, Parents Rebel Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Summit Learning

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

April 22, 2019

Janresseger: Low Salaries, High Rents, Poor Teaching Conditions Create Widespread Shortage of Qualified Teachers

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

April 19, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: What Preschool Isn’t: Waterford UPSTART and Any Other Online Program!

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Bailey

April 18, 2019

Stories from School AZ: Snap: Academic Gaps Continue for African American Youth in AZ

Blog Post of the Day

Yolanda Wheelington

April 17, 2019

The Conversation: Why LeBron James' I Promise School Should Be More Like Lebron and Not Shy Away from Issues of Race

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Nolan Krueger, Kevin Cokley, and Marlon L. Bailey

April 16, 2019

Janresseger: DeVos’s Staff Blocked Researchers Trying to Investigate Federal Charter Schools Program

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

April 15, 2019

Curmudgucation: DeVos Pushes Questionable Charter Research

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Peter Greene

April 12, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Toll College and Career Readiness Has Taken on Students

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Nancy Bailey

April 11, 2019

Answer Sheet: Why One Testing Expert Says New York State's Ever-Changing Standardized Testing Program is 'Useless'

Blog Post of the Day

Fred Smith

April 10, 2019

Our Schools: 3 Questions That 'Created Havoc' in Betsy DeVos' Department of Education

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

April 8, 2019

Janresseger: Scathing New Report Demands Moratorium on New Grants from Federal Charter Schools Program

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

April 5, 2019

Living in Dialogue: Will Oklahoma Rein In Epic Charter Failure?

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John Thompson

April 4, 2019

Shanker Blog: Dispatches from the Nexus of Boring and Important

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Matthew Di Carlo

April 3, 2019

Curmudgucation: DeVos, Class Size, and the Reformistan Bubble

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

April 2, 2019

Living in Dialogue: Why I Was Shaking My Head at Betsy DeVos

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Anthony Cody

April 1, 2019

Have You Heard: Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

March 28, 2019

Education Law Prof Blog: Maryland and New Hampshire Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuits within One Week of Each Other, What Gives?

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

March 27, 2019

Answer Sheet: U.S. Government Wasted up to $1 Billion on Charter Schools and Still Fails to Adequately Monitor Grants

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

March 26, 2019

Curmudgucation: Stop Talking About Student Achievement

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Peter Greene

March 25, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Reasons Children Have Reading Problems that Corporate Reformers Don’t Talk About

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Nancy Bailey

March 22, 2019

Shanker Blog: Interpreting Effect Sizes In Education Research

Blog Post of the Day

Matthew Di Carlo

March 21, 2019

Mike Rose's Blog: New Report from UCLA: “School and Society in the Age of Trump”

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Mike Rose

March 20, 2019

Janresseger: Momentum Grows for Desperately Needed Regulation of Charter Schools

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Jan Resseger

March 19, 2019

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: I Assign My Students Homework Despite Scant Research It Does Any Good

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

March 8, 2019

Education Law Prof Blog: Charter Schools Exploit Lucrative Loophole That Would Be Easy to Close

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Derek W. Black, Bruce D. Baker, and Preston Green

March 7, 2019

Living in Dialogue: Charters and Vouchers: The Threat to Public Schools is Real

Blog Post of the Day

Anthony Cody

March 6, 2019

Answer Sheet: A ’Staggering’ 30,000 Teachers in Oklahoma Have Left the Profession in the Past 6 Years. Here’s Why.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

March 5, 2019

Have You Heard: The Rise of the Portfolio Model for Schools

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Jennifer Berkshire, Jack Schneider, and Katrina Bulkley

March 1, 2019

Janresseger: Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers Proposes State Budget that Would Slow School Privatization

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Jan Resseger

February 28, 2019

Curmudgucation: Charter Schools Are Not Public Schools

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Peter Greene

February 27, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Thoughts on the Graduation Exam Mess in New Jersey

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Jersey Jazzman

February 26, 2019

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: Study Finds That Touted “Personalized Learning” Tech Platform Wasn’t Effective

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Ferlazzo

February 25, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Little We Know about How Teachers Teach Common Core

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Larry Cuban

February 22, 2019

10th Period: If This is Your Best Argument for More Charter Money, um....

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

February 21, 2019

Curmudgucation: What Is Your State's Grade For Data Privacy Protection?

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Peter Greene

February 20, 2019

The Conversation: Charter Schools Exploit Lucrative Loophole That Would Be Easy to Close

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Derek W. Black, Bruce D. Baker, and Preston Green

February 19, 2019

Janresseger: Are Charter Schools Losing their Cachet? Is the Narrative Shifting?

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

February 18, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: How NCLB is Still Destroying Reading for Children

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Bailey

February 15, 2019

Answer Sheet: There's a Backlash Against Charter Schools. What's Happening and Why.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

February 14, 2019

Radical Eyes for Equity: Evidence v. Advocacy in Teaching Reading: “We Should Not Mistake Zeal for Warrant”

Blog Post of the Day

P.L. Thomas

February 13, 2019

OurFuture.org: Charters Push Public Schools to the Brink

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

February 12, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: The Failure of State Control in Camden, NJ

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Jersey Jazzman

February 11, 2019

Janresseger: Portfolio School Governance Creates Unstable Charter Sector with Too Many School Closures

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Jan Resseger

February 8, 2019

10th Period: The Fabrications of a Charter School Zealot

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Stephen Dyer

February 7, 2019

Curmudgucation: Portfolio School Management For Dummies

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

February 6, 2019

Answer Sheet: Three Ways High-Quality Preschool Can Improve the Health of Children

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and W. Steven Barnett

February 5, 2019

Have You Heard: The LA Teacher Strike: Back to the Future of Education Reform

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

February 4, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Tuning Out: What Happens When You Drop Facebook? (Krysten Crawford) (Guest Post by Krysten Crawford)

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Krysten Crawford and Larry Cuban

February 1, 2019

10th Period: What Coulda Been (And Still Could Be) ...

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

January 31, 2019

The Conversation: Community Schools Score Key Victory in LA Teachers Strike

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Karen Hunter Quartz

January 30, 2019

OurFuture.org: Teacher Strikes Shift Politics of Charter School Agenda

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

January 29, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Broken Promises: Camden's "Renaissance" Charter Schools

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Jersey Jazzman

January 28, 2019

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: A Look Back: Study Suggests that a Teacher’s Impact on Student Behavior More Important than Test Scores

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Ferlazzo

January 25, 2019

Janresseger: Chalkbeat Disputes Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative’s Claim that Summit–“Personalized”–Learning is Research-Based

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

January 24, 2019

Answer Sheet: It’s National School Choice Week. What is That? (Possibly Not What You Think.)

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 23, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Donors Reform Schooling: A Lawsuit Aimed at Civic Education (Beth Rubin)

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

January 22, 2019

Have You Heard: These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

January 18, 2019

Curmudgucation: FL: The Unsurprising Teacher "Shortage"

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

January 17, 2019

Janresseger: Next School Year, Ohio Is Likely to Expand Vouchers and Charters Based on School Report Cards

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

January 16, 2019

Answer Sheet: It's a Really Bad Way to Fund Schools - But Texas May Adopt It Anyway

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 15, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Teach for America: Their Harmful Effect on Special Education

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Bailey

January 14, 2019

Janresseger: Decades of Academic Research Support Community Schools Strategy in New York City’s Renewal Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

January 11, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Kids in Disadvantaged Schools Don't Need Tests to Tell Them They're Being Cheated

Blog Post of the Day

Jersey Jazzman

January 10, 2019

Curmudgucation: After the Education Wars: The Best and Worst of Reform

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

January 9, 2019

Answer Sheet: New York City Offers Some Unpleasant Truths About School Improvement

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Julia Daniel

January 8, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Donors Reform Schooling: Evaluating Teachers (Part 2)

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

January 7, 2019

Have You Heard: What’s so Funny About Education Reform?

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

January 4, 2019

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Nancy Carlsson-Paige: Online Preschool Stinks!

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

January 3, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: NJ Court Strikes Down Graduation Test; An Opportunity to Re-Think Testing?

Blog Post of the Day

Jersey Jazzman

January 2, 2019

Janresseger: What If Policymakers Stopped Condemning Poor People and Considered their Real Needs and Circumstances?

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

December 31, 2018

Curmudgucation: Defining Reformy Terms is Everything

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

December 28, 2018

Answer Sheet: There are No Low-Track Courses at This High-Poverty School. Instead, There are Strong Supports and a Focus on Learning.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, Linda Molner Kelley, Matt Garcia, and Adam York

December 27, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “Personalized Learning”: Oversold and Underused: Software in Schools (Thomas Arnett) (Guest Post by Thomas Arnett)

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban and Thomas Arnett

December 26, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Mauritania: Report on Privatization and Commercialization of Education

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

December 21, 2018

Answer Sheet: Can Charter Schools Be Reformed? Should They Be?

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

December 19, 2018

Living in Dialogue: Slouching Toward Technopoly: A Lesson Plan

Blog Post of the Day

Paul Horton

December 17, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Fight for Federal Right to Education Takes a New Turn

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

December 13, 2018

Answer Sheet: At This School, the Inclusive Culture Matters as Much as the Curriculum

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, Linda Molner Kelley, Adam York, and Michelle Doughty

December 12, 2018

Janresseger: New from the National Education Policy Center: “How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination”

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

December 11, 2018

Curmudgucation: Inducing ADHD

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

December 10, 2018

Have You Heard: Unreal Results in Education Research

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

December 7, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: National Education Policy Center: How School Choice Paves the Way for Discrimination

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

December 6, 2018

Janresseger: Why School Choice Ends Up Creating Injustice and Inequality

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

December 5, 2018

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap—How Ironic

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Bailey

December 4, 2018

Have You Heard: In a Gentrifying City, Are Some Students Expendable?

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

December 3, 2018

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: A Look Back: Bingo! There are Issues with This Study on Grit & ELLs, But I Am Sure Going to Use It with My Students

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Ferlazzo

November 30, 2018

Janresseger: Faith in High Stakes Testing Fades, Even Among the Corporate School Reformers

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

November 29, 2018

Answer Sheet: Kids Need More Than Academics at School to Succeed. Doing It Right is the Trick.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Joan Wasser Gish

November 28, 2018

Learning Policy Institute: The Power of Educational Justice Movements

Blog Post of the Day

Mark R. Warren

November 27, 2018

School Finance 101: Toward a Consensus Approach to Evaluating State School Finance Systems! (and Dumping the Others!)

Blog Post of the Day

Bruce D. Baker

November 26, 2018

Curmudgucation: Should Your Three-Year-Old Attend On-line School?

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

November 21, 2018

Janresseger: Northwestern University Economist Uses Data to Prove Students’ Test Scores Fail to Measure Quality Teaching

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

November 20, 2018

VAMboozled!: “You Are More Than Your EVAAS Score!”

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 19, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Superintendents Raise Test Scores?

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

November 16, 2018

Curmudgucation: Toolkit for Teacher and Student Privacy

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

November 15, 2018

Janresseger: More on the Public Purpose of Our Public Schools and the Role of Public Governance

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

November 14, 2018

Answer Sheet: Linda Darling-Hammond vs. Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris (update)

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Linda Darling-Hammond, Diane Ravitch , and Carol C. Burris

November 13, 2018

Teacher in a Strange Land: Opportunity Knocks and Grade Level Answers the Door

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Flanagan

November 12, 2018

Answer Sheet: How Poverty and Race Affect Who Goes to College - in 5 Charts

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

November 9, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Site-Based Decision-making?

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

November 7, 2018

McSweeney's: Think Small

Blog Post of the Day

Tina Trujillo

November 6, 2018

Answer Sheet: Why It Matters Who Governs America's Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Carol C. Burris, and Diane Ravitch

November 5, 2018

OurFuture.org: How Teachers Might Save Arizona Schools from the Kochs

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

November 2, 2018

Curmudgucation: The Real Digital Divide

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

November 1, 2018

Educating. Institutional Mourning: Chicago School Closings and the Supreme Court

Blog Post of the Day

Linda McSpadden McNeil

October 31, 2018

Answer Sheet: Education Professor: My Students Asked Who I Would Vote For. Here’s What I Told Them.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and David C. Berliner

October 30, 2018

Cloaking Inequity: Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing and the Achievement Gap

Blog Post of the Day

Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 29, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: International Body Confirms It: Our School Segregation Problem is Dragging Student Achievement Down

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

October 26, 2018

Janresseger: Drilling Down into the “Grading the States” Report on School Privatization

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

October 25, 2018

Radical Eyes for Equity: Chicken-Little Politics and the Curse of Testing (and Standards) in South Carolina

Blog Post of the Day

P.L. Thomas

October 24, 2018

Curmudgucation: DeVos Organization Issues School Choice Guidebook

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

October 22, 2018

Have You Heard: Teachers are Running for Office – And to Save Public Education

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

October 19, 2018

OurFuture.org: This is Your Future Without Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

October 18, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Someone Is Doing the Department of Education's Job for It, Thank Goodness

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

October 17, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened To Service Learning?

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

October 16, 2018

Janresseger: How School Choice in Michigan Accelerates Student Mobility, Stresses Educators, and Undermines Education

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

October 15, 2018

Answer Sheet: This School Once Had a Reputation for Violence. Here's How That Changed.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

October 11, 2018

Curmudgucation: DEY: Opposing Online Preschool

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

October 11, 2018

OurFuture.org: This Is Your Future Without Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

October 10, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: New York: Common Core Produces Massive Failure in Writing

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

October 9, 2018

Yong Zhao: Problems with Evidence-based Education: Side Effects in Education

Blog Post of the Day

Yong Zhao

October 8, 2018

Janresseger: What to Do to Support Students Who Are Chronically Absent from School?

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

October 5, 2018

Have You Heard: Win/Win: Why Billionaire Philanthropists are Bad at School Reform

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

October 4, 2018

Curmudgucation: More Charter Business Begging

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

October 3, 2018

Shanker Blog: Weaning Educational Research Off of Steroids

Blog Post of the Day

Hunter Gehlbach and Carly D. Robinson

October 2, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Detracking?

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

October 1, 2018

Cloaking Inequity: California Just Banned For-Profit Charter Schools. Why?

Blog Post of the Day

Julian Vasquez Heilig

September 28, 2018

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: Important Research Review Finds That – Surprise – Outside of School Factors Impact Student Academic Achievement

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Ferlazzo

September 27, 2018

OurFuture.org: Betsy DeVos Throws Favors to For-Profit Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

September 26, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: Charter Schools Do Not Promote Diversity

Blog Post of the Day

Jersey Jazzman

September 25, 2018

Shanker Blog: The Teacher Diversity Data Landscape

Blog Post of the Day

Matthew Di Carlo

September 24, 2018

Curmudgucation: Field Guide To Bad Education Research

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

September 21, 2018

VAMboozled!: Learning from What Doesn’t Work in Teacher Evaluation

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 20, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “Personalized Learning”: The Difference Between a Policy and a Strategy

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

September 19, 2018

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Report: US Shortchanged Public Schools by Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Over Decades

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

September 18, 2018

Janresseger: Stunning New Report: How Can Our Society Repay A Long Education Debt to Our Poorest Communities?

Blog Post of the Day

September 17, 2018

Educating. All Our Children: Your Kids, Their Data, No Privacy

Blog Post of the Day

Linda McSpadden McNeil

September 14, 2018

VAMboozled!: Can More Teachers Be Covered Using VAMs?

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 13, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Network for Public Education Conference to Feature Groundbreaking Report on the Privatization of Education

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

September 12, 2018

Sherman Dorn: How to Think Clearly About That Clever Econometrics Policy Paper

Blog Post of the Day

Sherman Dorn

September 11, 2018

Answer Sheet: If You Don't Know What a 'Community School' Is, You Should. Take a Look at This One

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

September 10, 2018

OurFuture.org: It’s Back-To-Underfunding, Charter-Scandal School Time

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

September 7, 2018

Answer Sheet: The Real Story of New Orleans and Its Charter Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 6, 2018

Bennington Banner: William J. Mathis: What Americans Think About Their Schools

Blog Post of the Day

William J. Mathis

September 5, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Principals and Test Scores

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

September 4, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Connecting School Quality Dots: Money, Race, Suspension, and Safety

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

August 31, 2018

Shanker Blog: Teaching – And Defending – American Democracy

Blog Post of the Day

Leo Casey

August 30, 2018

Janresseger: DeVos Neglects to Help Public Schools Serve Neediest Students While She Pushes to Arm Teachers

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

August 29, 2018

Living in Dialogue: Will the Teacher Rebellion Bring Educators from High Poverty Schools to Office?

Blog Post of the Day

John Thompson

August 28, 2018

UCLA Center X: Mitchell Chang: Affirming Diversity

Blog Post of the Day

John Rogers and Mitchell J. Chang

August 27, 2018

Answer Sheet: Will LeBron James’s New School Work Well? Here’s What the Research Says.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

August 24, 2018

Shanker Blog: Why Teacher Evaluation Reform is Not a Failure

Blog Post of the Day

Matthew Di Carlo

August 23, 2018

Radical Eyes for Equity: Much Ado about Politics (Not Reading)

Blog Post of the Day

P.L. Thomas

August 22, 2018

Janresseger: William Mathis: What Standardized Tests Measure and What They Can’t Tell Us

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

August 21, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: False Assumptions about Private Schools Are Driving Public School Funding into a Ditch

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

August 20, 2018

Have You Heard: A Star-Powered Promise: LeBron Takes a Shot at School Reform

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

August 17, 2018

VAMboozled!: ACT Also Finds but Discourages States’ Decreased Use of VAMs Post-ESSA

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 16, 2018

OurFuture.org: WI Governor’s Race Puts Education in the Spotlight

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

August 15, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Paradoxes of Efficiency in Education (Part 2)

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

August 14, 2018

Janresseger: What is the Legacy of Renaissance 2010 School Choice in Chicago?

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

August 13, 2018

Bennington Banner: William J. Mathis: Education Reforms: Everything Important Cannot Be Measured

Blog Post of the Day

William J. Mathis

August 10, 2018

10th Period: Ohio Supreme Court: ECOT Can't Get Money for Kids It Doesn't Educate. Really.

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

August 9, 2018

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Top 10 Reasons You Can’t Fairly Evaluate Teachers on Student Test Scores

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

August 8, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Channel One?

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

August 7, 2018

OurFuture.org: “Portfolio” Boosters Want to Privatize Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

August 6, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: National Education Policy Center: Virtual Charter Schools are a Sham and Waste Taxpayers’ Dollars

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

August 3, 2018

VAMboozled!: New Mexico Loses Major Education Finance Lawsuit (with Rulings Related to Teacher Evaluation System)

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 2, 2018

Answer Sheet: No, Private Schools Aren't Better at Educating Kids Than Public Schools. Why This New Study Matters.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

August 1, 2018

Janresseger: AFT Sums Up Ten Years of Public School Underfunding and Neglect with Details from Each State

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

July 31, 2018

OurFuture.org: Why the New Push for Charter Schools Should Anger Progressives

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

July 27, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: SGPs: Still Biased, Still Inappropriate To Use For Teacher Evaluation

Blog Post of the Day

Jersey Jazzman

July 26, 2018

VAMboozled!: Fired “Ineffective” Teacher Wins Battle with DC Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 25, 2018

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Since School Vouchers Don’t Increase Test Scores, Racism is an Acceptable Reason for Privatization, Says Advocate

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

July 24, 2018

Education in Two Worlds: "Fahrenheit 451" Lives!

Blog Post of the Day

Gene V Glass

July 23, 2018

Have You Heard: The Problem with Fear-Based Education Reform

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

July 20, 2018

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: New Study Finds – Wait For It – More Money For Education Helps Students & Teachers

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Larry Ferlazzo

July 19, 2018

Janresseger: The Problems of Outcomes-Based School Accountability

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Jan Resseger

July 18, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: The PARCC, Phil Murphy, and Some Common Sense

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Jersey Jazzman

July 17, 2018

Curmudgucation: Too Personalized

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Peter Greene

July 16, 2018

Cloaking Inequity: New: Does The African American Need Separate Charter Schools?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

July 13, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Holding Donors Accountable

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Larry Cuban

July 11, 2018

Answer Sheet: How One Maryland High School Successfully Boosted Minority Student Enrollment in Advanced Classes

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, Linda Molner Kelley, and Kellie Rolstad

July 10, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis: Beware of Secret Supplications

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Diane Ravitch and William J. Mathis

July 9, 2018

Curmudgucation: That Damned Question

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Peter Greene

July 6, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: New Report Suggests California Has Improved Its School Funding, But Has Long Way to Go to Meet Student Needs

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Derek W. Black

July 5, 2018

VAMboozled!: The Gates Foundation’s Expensive ($335 Million) Teacher Evaluation Missteps

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 3, 2018

Janresseger: School Segregation Persists Across the States: Public Schools and Charter Schools, North and South

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Jan Resseger

July 2, 2018

Answer Sheet: Bill Gates Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Improve Teaching. New Report Says It Was a Bust

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Valerie Strauss

June 29, 2018

Have You Heard: Life A la Carte: School Choice, Segregation and Gentrification in an Unequal City

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

June 28, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: National Study of Charter School and Voucher Policies Brings Much Needed Balance to the Conversation

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Derek W. Black

June 27, 2018

OurFuture.org: New Report Reveals Which States Are Abandoning Public Schools

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Jeff Bryant

June 25, 2018

School Finance 101: It's Just Not Funny Anymore (and Never Was): Reflections on Educational Inequality and Generations Lost

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Bruce D. Baker

June 22, 2018

Curmudgucation: Really Rethinking Standardized Test Scores

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Peter Greene

June 20, 2018

VAMboozled!: States Teacher Evaluation Systems Moving in the “Right” Direction

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 19, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis on the Incredible Hanushek Prediction of Trillions Generated by “Reform”

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Diane Ravitch

June 18, 2018

Curmudgucation: How Can Proficiency Vary Between States?

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Peter Greene

June 12, 2018

VAMboozled!: New Mexico Teacher Evaluation Lawsuit Updates

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 11, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: The Washington Legislature May Have Gotten the Supreme Court Off Its Back, But Is It Funding Schools Adequately?

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Derek W. Black

June 8, 2018

Sam Chaltain: To (Re)Design School, We Need New Metaphors. Let's Start With These Five.

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Sam Chaltain

June 7, 2018

Answer Sheet: At This School, Being 'Different' is an Asset

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

June 6, 2018

Have You Heard: Teaching Machines: The Dream of Automating the Teaching Profession Goes Way Back

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

June 5, 2018

Curmudgucation: EdNext and the Beanstalk

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Peter Greene

June 4, 2018

Mike Rose's Blog: “A Nation at Risk” at 35

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Mike Rose

June 1, 2018

OurFuture.org: New Charter School Plan Should Alarm the Nation

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Jeff Bryant

May 31, 2018

Cloaking Inequity: 97.81% of Charter Schools Not "Diverse by Design"

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 30, 2018

Janresseger: U. of Chicago Researchers Document Damage to Communities and Students from 2013 School Closures

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Jan Resseger

May 29, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: New Research on Public Schools' Singular Role in Intergroup Contact

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Derek W. Black

May 25, 2018

Arizona Stories from School: Should School Ratings Matter?

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Jaime Festa-Daigle

May 24, 2018

Mike Klonsky's Blog: U of C Study, Out Today, Shows Rahm's 2013 School Closings Failed CPS Students

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Mike Klonsky

May 23, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Democracy Prep: “No Excuses” Schools that Build Citizens?

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Larry Cuban

May 22, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis: Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain

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Diane Ravitch and William J. Mathis

May 21, 2018

Cloaking Inequity: Report Comparing Charter Schools Versus Public Schools is Fatally Flawed

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 18, 2018

Answer Sheet: A Haven for Refugees, This Nebraska High School Builds a Web of Support for its Diverse Student Population

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

May 17, 2018

Curmudgucation: FL: Continuing the War on Littles

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Peter Greene

May 16, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: What Do the War on Teachers, Charter Schools, Vouchers, School Accountability, and Standardized Testing All Have in Common?

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

May 15, 2018

Janresseger: In Arizona, Beyond Meager School Funding and Charters’ Theft of Funding, is a Third Problem

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Jan Resseger

May 14, 2018

Answer Sheet: What You Don't Know About the Schools at the Top of U.S. News' 2018 High School Rankings

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Valerie Strauss

May 11, 2018

OurFuture.org: Charter Schools Threaten the Existence of Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

May 10, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Arizona Voters: Did You Pay for the $8.4 Million NYC Condo for BASIS Charter Founders?

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Diane Ravitch

May 9, 2018

Janresseger: Important New Study Shows How Charter School Expansion Ruins School District Budgets

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Jan Resseger

May 8, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: New Study Finds That Each Charter School Student in North Carolina Costs Local Traditional Public Schools $3500

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Derek W. Black

May 7, 2018

VAMboozled!: An Important but False Claim about the EVAAS in Ohio

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 4, 2018

Curmudgucation: Public

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Peter Greene

May 3, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: What Do We Teach In America's Schools? "Hey, Honey, Sit Down and Shut Up!"

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Jersey Jazzman

May 2, 2018

Have You Heard: Getting Fundamental: Do Americans Have a Right to Public Education?

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

May 1, 2018

Answer Sheet: Down on the Farm, These Chicago High School Students Get a Unique Public Education

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

April 30, 2018

Curmudgucation: AZ: It's More Than Money

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Peter Greene

April 27, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Public Schools and Educational Inequality: Some Thoughts* (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 26, 2018

Janresseger: Arizona Teachers Will Walk Out Tomorrow for Salaries and Adequate School Funding

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Jan Resseger

April 25, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Two Maps of DC Charter Schools Tell It All: DC's Schools Are Separate and Unequal

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Derek W. Black

April 24, 2018

Arizona Stories from School: Families: A Call for Unity with #REDforED

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Jess Ledbetter

April 23, 2018

OurFuture.org: Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too

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Jeff Bryant

April 20, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: National Education Policy Center: What is the Evidence for the Success of No-Excuses Charter Schools?

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Diane Ravitch

April 19, 2018

Shanker Blog: We Can't Graph Our Way Out of the Research on Education Spending

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Matthew Di Carlo

April 18, 2018

Janresseger: Red States: Waking Up to Public Responsibility for Educating Children?

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Jan Resseger

April 17, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Education Protest Broadens Its Wings--This Time It's Revealing Segregation and Inequality

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Derek W. Black

April 16, 2018

Cloaking Inequity: New Orfield Book: School Choice Exacerbating Inequality and Segregation

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

April 13, 2018

Mike Rose's Blog: The Everyday Gestures of Justice

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Mike Rose

April 11, 2018

VAMboozled!: Identifying Effective Teacher Preparation Programs Using VAMs Does Not Work

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 9, 2018

Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Who Survives Success?

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Gary Rubinstein

April 6, 2018

Have You Heard: The Data Boyz: What Counts in Education Research?

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

April 4, 2018

10th Period: Do Charters Spend More than Districts, or What Do Medians Mean?

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Stephen Dyer

April 3, 2018

NEA Today: How Independent Teacher Prep Programs Fail Our Most Vulnerable Students

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Cindy Long

April 2, 2018

Curmudgucation: The Testing Thermostat

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Peter Greene

March 29, 2018

Janresseger: In Appropriations Bill, Congress Impedes Betsy DeVos’s Plans

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Jan Resseger

March 28, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: National Education Policy Center is Leaving Facebook

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Diane Ravitch

March 27, 2018

Deborah Meier on Education: To Strengthen Democracy, Invest in Our Public Schools

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Emily Gasoi and Deborah Meier

March 26, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Teachers Taught: Patterns of Instruction, 1890-2010

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Larry Cuban

March 23, 2018

OurFuture.org: Betsy DeVos Wants to Cut Public Education to the Bone

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Jeff Bryant

March 22, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: The Facts About NJ Charter Schools, Part III: Segregation by English Proficiency

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Jersey Jazzman

March 21, 2018

Shanker Blog: What Happened to Teacher Quality?

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 20, 2018

Sherman Dorn: How the "Industrial Era Schools" Myth is a Barrier to Helping Education Today

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Sherman Dorn

March 19, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Network for Public Education Releases a Parents’ Guide to Online Learning

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Diane Ravitch

March 9, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Voucher Programs: Are the Promises Realized?

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Derek W. Black

March 8, 2018

Janresseger: New Brief Examines Injustice in U.S. Public Education Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission Report

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Jan Resseger

March 7, 2018

Horace Mann League Blog: Bill Mathis – Outstanding Public Educator – Presentation

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William J. Mathis

March 6, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: Things Economists Should Start Saying About Education Research

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Jersey Jazzman

March 5, 2018

Radical Eyes for Equity: School Safety and Security: Research and Evidence

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P.L. Thomas

March 2, 2018

Answer Sheet: What Research Really Says About Closing Schools - And Why It's a Bad Idea for Kids

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Valerie Strauss and Michelle Renée Valladares

March 1, 2018

Education in Two Worlds: Work, Play and the Loss of Relevance

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Gene V Glass

February 28, 2018

VAMboozled!: New Mexico’s Motion for Summary Judgment, Following Houston’s Precedent-Setting Ruling

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 27, 2018

Curmudgucation: Bogus Measures of Learning

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Peter Greene

February 26, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Most States Shortchange Public School Students Despite Growing Evidence That Money Matters

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Derek W. Black

February 23, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Spilling the Beans on “Personalized Learning”

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Larry Cuban

February 22, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: Don't Believe the Hype: The Facts About Graduation Rates in Newark and Camden, NJ (UPDATED)

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Jersey Jazzman

February 20, 2018

OurFuture.org: DeVos Denies Civil Rights and Stifles Dissent. But She’s a Victim?

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Jeff Bryant

February 19, 2018

Janresseger: School Ratings Not Only Tell You Little about Schools, They Contribute to Economic Segregation

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Jan Resseger

February 16, 2018

Diane Ravitch's Blog: David Berliner Calls for a National Teachers’ Strike on May Day to Demand Sensible Gun Laws

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Diane Ravitch

February 15, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Feds Needs to Get Their Facts Straight and Stop Misleading the Public About Education Funding

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Derek W. Black

February 14, 2018

Answer Sheet: Trump and DeVos Love ‘Education Savings Accounts.’ You Should Know How They Really Work.

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 13, 2018

Living in Dialogue: Autopsy of NCLB Reveals Contempt for Teachers

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John Thompson

February 12, 2018

Yong Zhao: Stop Looking at My Bad Leg: Introduction to My New Book: Reach for Greatness

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Yong Zhao

February 9, 2018

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: New Study Finds Little Variation Among Teacher Preparation Programs

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Diane Ravitch

February 8, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: What Roles School Practitioners Have to Perform Daily

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Larry Cuban

February 7, 2018

Radical Eyes for Equity: When Think Tank Opinion on Policy is Driven by Advocacy, Refute Them: A Reader

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P.L. Thomas

February 6, 2018

Curmudgucation: Still Pushing the Common Core

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Peter Greene

February 5, 2018

Education Law Prof Blog: Data is Building to Show that Charters are Making North Carolina Schools More Segregated and More Unequal

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Derek W. Black

February 2, 2018

Learning Policy Institute: Community Schools: Building Home–School Partnerships to Support Student Success

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Anna Maier

February 1, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: Is "No Excuses" Narrowing the Curriculum? Evidence from Newark

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Jersey Jazzman

January 31, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Dilemma of Preschools in the U.S.

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Larry Cuban

January 30, 2018

OurFuture.org: Massive Charter School Failure Exposes Thousands of Students

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Jeff Bryant

January 29, 2018

Living in Dialogue: Race and Class Segregation Encouraged by Charter and Voucher Echo Chamber

Blog Post of the Day

Paul Horton

January 26, 2018

Janresseger: Education Savings Accounts: Proponents Claim Educational Choice Beats Mere School Choice

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Jan Resseger

January 25, 2018

Mike Klonsky's Blog: 'Underutilization': The Devastating Language Behind School Closings

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Mike Klonsky

January 24, 2018

Curmudgucation: Selling Choice

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Peter Greene

January 23, 2018

Answer Sheet: Here are Eight 'Schools of Opportunity' That Do Extraordinary Things for Students

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

January 22, 2018

Have You Heard: What Gets Taught at Voucher Schools?

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Jennifer Berkshire

January 19, 2018

Washington Post: A Popular School Fundraiser is Just 'Junk-Food Marketing to Kids,' Experts Say

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Caitlin Dewey

January 18, 2018

Janresseger: National School Funding Expert Shreds Far-Right Rationale for Portable School Funding

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Jan Resseger

January 17, 2018

OurFuture.org: Why America’s School Funding Crisis is a Race and Gender Justice Issue

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Jeff Bryant

January 16, 2018

Shanker Blog: Three Questions Underlying the Debate About School Choice and Segregation

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Matthew Di Carlo

January 12, 2018

Janresseger: Betsy DeVos: The Second of Her Two Top Accomplishments This Year

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Jan Resseger

January 11, 2018

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: Statistic of the Day: To the Surprise of No Teacher, New Study Finds That Class Size Matters

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Larry Ferlazzo

January 10, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: "Miracle" School "Journalism" and Gorilla Channel Values

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Jersey Jazzman

January 9, 2018

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: The Hidden Attrition of Success Academy

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Gary Rubinstein

January 8, 2018

OurFuture.org: Republican Tax Plan Opens Back Door to School Vouchers

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Jeff Bryant

January 5, 2018

Have You Heard: Cashing in on Our Unequal Education System Goes Way Back

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Jennifer Berkshire

January 4, 2018

Janresseger: An Urgently Needed New Year’s Resolution for Those Who Care About Public Education

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Jan Resseger

January 3, 2018

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to the Coalition of Essential Schools?

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Larry Cuban

January 2, 2018

Jersey Jazzman: What are Tests Really Measuring? A Tale of Education "Reform" in Newark

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Jersey Jazzman

December 22, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: David Berliner Offers Advice to the Citizens of Philadelphia About Their Public Schools

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Diane Ravitch and David C. Berliner

December 21, 2017

OurFuture.org: Is Betsy DeVos About to Pump up the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

December 20, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: The Strange Ideas Found in Voucher Schools' Textbooks Are a Problem Reaching Well Beyond Just the Students Learning Them

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

December 19, 2017

VAMboozled!: Bias in VAMs, According to Validity Expert Michael T. Kane

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 18, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: Education "Reform" in Newark: The Facts - Prelude

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Jersey Jazzman

December 15, 2017

Answer Sheet: Betsy DeVos May Not Recognize It, But These Public Schools Work

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Valerie Strauss, Julia Daniel, Anna Maier, and Jeannie Oakes

December 14, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Kevin Welner: Can the New Gates Initiative Make a Difference in Closing Opportunity Gaps?

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Diane Ravitch

December 13, 2017

Hack Education: The Weaponization of Education Data

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Watters

December 12, 2017

VT Digger: William Mathis: Dangers in the Brave New World

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William J. Mathis

December 11, 2017

Janresseger: More School Closures Planned in Chicago

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

December 8, 2017

NYU/Steinhardt: Data for Black Lives talks Education Justice

Blog Post of the Day

Julia Daniel

December 7, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Silicon Valley Takes Over Classrooms: Yes and No (Part 1)

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

December 6, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: AP Study: Charters Intensify Racial Segregation, and Charter Leaders Don’t Care

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

December 5, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Florida's Education Clause Should Get with the Times, and I Don't Mean by Expanding Choice Programs

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

December 4, 2017

10th Period: Kids in 100 Ohio School Districts Lose Overall Funding to Charter Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

December 1, 2017

Curmudgucation: Don't Be Batman

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

November 30, 2017

Janresseger: Sorting Out the Debate About Educational Accountability

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

November 29, 2017

Answer Sheet: Why It’s a Big Problem That So Many Teachers Quit - And What To Do About It

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Linda Darling-Hammond, Leib Sutcher, and Desiree Carver-Thomas

November 28, 2017

VAMboozled!: A North Carolina Teacher’s Guest Post on His/Her EVAAS Scores

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 27, 2017

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Public School Teachers Are Absent Too Much, Says Charter School Think Tank

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

November 22, 2017

OurFuture.org: Election Results Show When Democrats Win, ‘Education Reform’ Often Loses

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

November 21, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: MUST READ! A Major Report on Charter Schools by the Network for Public Education

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

November 20, 2017

10th Period: How Kids Not in Charters Are Hurt by Charter Funding System -- A Case Study

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

November 17, 2017

Cloaking Inequity: Walton Funded Organization Seeking to "Organize” and “Innovate” in the Bay

Blog Post of the Day

Julian Vasquez Heilig

November 16, 2017

Mike Klonsky’s Blog: Fact-Checking the Checkers on Miraculous CPS Test Score Bump

Blog Post of the Day

Mike Klonsky

November 15, 2017

Janresseger: Tax Reform, the Common Good, and Public Education

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

November 14, 2017

OurFuture.org: In North Carolina, Charter Schools Force ‘Zero-Sum’ Education

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

November 13, 2017

VAMboozled!: More of Kane’s “Objective” Insights on Teacher Evaluation Measures

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 10, 2017

Answer Sheet: The Real Reasons So Many Young People Can’t Write Well Today - By an English Teacher

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Justin Parmenter

November 9, 2017

Have You Heard: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Corporate Education Agenda

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

November 8, 2017

Janresseger: Educating Ourselves About Betsy DeVos—Three Essential Articles

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Jan Resseger

November 7, 2017

Shanker Blog: A Closer Look At Our Report on Public and Private School Segregation in DC

Blog Post of the Day

Kinga Wysieńska-Di Carlo and Matthew Di Carlo

November 6, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: The Great Education Gerrymander: Another Framing for the Education Inequality Debate

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

November 2, 2017

VAMboozled!: Breaking News: New Evidence that Developmental (and Formative) Approaches to Teacher Evaluation Systems Work

Blog Post of the Day

November 1, 2017

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: My Students Are Addicted to Screens

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

October 31, 2017

Huffington Post: Teaching Citizenship in a Divided America

Blog Post of the Day

Joan McRobbie

October 30, 2017

OurFuture.org: Center For American Progress Makes a Failed Case for Charters

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

October 27, 2017

Have You Heard: How Closing Schools Undermines Democracy

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

October 26, 2017

Curmudgucation: Addressing Bias

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

October 25, 2017

School Finance 101: School Funding Myths & Misdirects

Blog Post of the Day

Bruce D. Baker

October 24, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: New SAT, but Same Old Problems

Blog Post of the Day

P.L. Thomas

October 23, 2017

10th Period: State Report Card: Disadvantaged Students’ Performance Gaps Grew More in Charters than School Districts

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

October 20, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Missouri Schools Suspend Black Students More Than Four Times As Often As Whites, While Disparities Curiously Drop with Other Forms of Punishment

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

October 19, 2017

Janresseger: Harvard’s Daniel Koretz Indicts High Stakes Testing in “The Testing Charade”

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

October 18, 2017

OurFuture.org: Betsy DeVos’s Attack on Public Education is Just Beginning

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

October 17, 2017

School Finance 101: More on Within-District “Equity” and Charter Expansion

Blog Post of the Day

Bruce D. Baker

October 16, 2017

VAMboozled!: Breaking News: The End of Value-Added Measures for Teacher Termination in Houston

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 13, 2017

Answer Sheet: Teacher: What Happened When I Stopped Viewing My Students as Data Points

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss and Justin Parmenter

October 12, 2017

Curmudgucation: How Parents Choose

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

October 11, 2017

10th Period: The Quiet Importance of Ohio's Performance Index Score

Blog Post of the Day

Stephen Dyer

October 10, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Are Alternative Charter Schools Earning Their Paychecks or Just Cashing Them?

Blog Post of the Day

Derek W. Black

October 9, 2017

Answer Sheet: Why the School ‘Accountability Movement’ Based on Standardized Tests is Nothing More than ‘A Charade’

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

October 6, 2017

School Finance 101: When School Finance Research Died & Why It Matters #MSFRGA

Blog Post of the Day

Bruce D. Baker

October 5, 2017

Living in Dialogue: Fordham Institute to Teachers: Don’t Get Sick!

Blog Post of the Day

John Thompson

October 4, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Betsy DeVos’ Favorite Study of Florida Vouchers is Full of Holes

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

October 3, 2017

Have You Heard: Divided by Design: Race, Neighborhoods, Wealth and Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

October 2, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Lingering, and Powerful, Legacy of “Scientific Racism” in America

Blog Post of the Day

P.L. Thomas

September 29, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Some Technology Leaders Worry about Children and Digital Devices: They Should

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

September 28, 2017

Yong Zhao: Torture is not Good Education: A Response to WSJ’s Why American Students Need Chinese Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Yong Zhao

September 27, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Nebraska’s Teachers: Why We Don’t Need Charters or Vouchers

Blog Post of the Day

Diane Ravitch

September 26, 2017

Janresseger: State Voucher Plans Grow Despite DeVos’s Failure to Enact a Federal Program

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

September 25, 2017

School Finance 101: School Finance Prerequisites: On Liberty vs. Equality

Blog Post of the Day

Bruce D. Baker

September 22, 2017

OurFuture.org: Beware Back-to-School Stories Celebrating Online Education

Blog Post of the Day

Jeff Bryant

September 20, 2017

Curmudgucation: AZ: Leading in Charter Profiteering

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Greene

September 19, 2017

Yong Zhao: Fatal Attraction: Why Copying Each Other Won’t Improve Education?

Blog Post of the Day

Yong Zhao

September 18, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Teachers are Policymakers

Blog Post of the Day

Larry Cuban

September 15, 2017

Shanker Blog: The Theory and Practice of School Closures

Blog Post of the Day

Matthew Di Carlo

September 14, 2017

Hack Education: Inequality, 'Brand Ambassadors,' and the Business of Selling (to) Classrooms

Blog Post of the Day

Audrey Watters

September 13, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: What Really Makes a "No Excuses" Charter School?

Blog Post of the Day

Jersey Jazzman

September 12, 2017

School Finance 101: Reality Check: Trends in School Finance

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Bruce D. Baker

September 11, 2017

Janresseger: Is the Purpose of Public Education No Longer Self-Evident?

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Jan Resseger

September 8, 2017

Cloaking Inequity: With Charter Schools, A Step Back to Segregation

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

September 7, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: A Message to Education Deans: Resist!

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Diane Ravitch

September 6, 2017

Curmudgucation: New Cyber-Incident Map

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Peter Greene

September 5, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: William Mathis: What Is the Purpose of School and What Do We Measure?

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Diane Ravitch

September 1, 2017

Have You Heard: Education Can’t Fix Poverty (So Why Do We Keep Insisting That It Can?)

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

August 31, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: The Worst Argument For Charter Schools

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Jersey Jazzman

August 30, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Do Traditional Public Schools Benefit from Charter Competition?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

August 29, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Atlanta Educators Reflect on Lessons From Personalized Learning Initiative (Jenny Abamu) (by Jenny Abamu)

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Jenny Abamu

August 28, 2017

OurFuture.org: What Happened to All the Teachers?

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Jeff Bryant

August 25, 2017

Shanker Blog: What are "Segregated Schools?"

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Matthew Di Carlo

August 24, 2017

Curmudgucation: Tweaking Charter Marketing

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Peter Greene

August 23, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: The Secrets to Their "Success"

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Jersey Jazzman

August 22, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: How a Southern City Achieved Our Nation's Greatest School Integration Success and Then Struggled to Save It

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Derek W. Black

August 21, 2017

VAMboozled!: The “Widget Effect” Report Revisited

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 18, 2017

OurFuture.org: Is Back-to-School More Expensive This Year? Yes, and Here’s Why

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Jeff Bryant

August 17, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Apple Classroom of Tomorrow: A Glimpse into the Past

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Larry Cuban

August 16, 2017

The Answer Sheet: This ALEC State Report Card Speaks Volumes about Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda

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Valerie Strauss

August 15, 2017

Shanker Blog: Where Do Achievement Gaps Come From?

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Matthew Di Carlo

August 14, 2017

VT Digger: William Mathis: What Achievement Tests Tell Us

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William J. Mathis

August 11, 2017

VAMboozled!: A “Next Generation” Vision for School, Teacher, and Student Accountability

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 10, 2017

Janresseger: Is It True that Nobody Really Knows What to Do to Help Struggling Schools?

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Jan Resseger

August 9, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: States' New Plans for Complying with the Every Student Succeeds Act Confirms Just How Little the Law Expects of States

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Derek W. Black

August 8, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: CREDO Charter School Studies' "X Days of Learning" Conversion: Still Unvalidated

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Jersey Jazzman

August 7, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: Why Journalists Shouldn’t Write about Education

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P.L. Thomas

August 4, 2017

OurFuture.org: Problems Posed By School Choice Can’t Be Ignored

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Jeff Bryant

August 3, 2017

VAMboozled!: Observational Systems: Correlations with Value-Added and Bias

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 2, 2017

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: The Alum-lie

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Gary Rubinstein

August 1, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: When "Miracle" Charter Schools Shed Students

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Jersey Jazzman

July 21, 2017

Janresseger: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Owes ALEC for Promoting Her Anti-Public Education Agenda

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Jan Resseger

July 20, 2017

Curmudgucation: What is Test Prep?

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Peter Greene

July 19, 2017

The Answer Sheet: A Detailed Critique of a PBS-Run Education Documentary

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Valerie Strauss, Diane Ravitch , and Carol C. Burris

July 18, 2017

OurFuture.org: Why Teachers Don’t Trust Betsy DeVos, and Neither Should You

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Jeff Bryant

July 17, 2017

Shanker Blog: For Florida's School Grading System, A Smart Change With Unexpected Effects

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Shanker Blog

July 14, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: Shooting Themselves in the Foot: Teacher Certification and NYC Charter Schools

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Jersey Jazzman

July 13, 2017

The Answer Sheet: It Puts Kids to Sleep - But Teachers Keep Lecturing Anyway. Here’s What to Do About It.

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Valerie Strauss and Alfie Kohn

July 12, 2017

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day: New Study Finds Students Less Motivated in School the More They Think Wealth & Income Inequality is Stacked Against Them

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Larry Ferlazzo

July 11, 2017

Cloaking Inequity: Charter Schools: Who Is Working Together to Improve Them?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

July 10, 2017

Shanker Blog: ESSA: An Opportunity for Research-Practice Partnerships to Support Districts and States

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William R. Penuel and Caitlin C. Farrell

July 7, 2017

OurFuture.org: Trump Is Vulnerable On Education. Do Democrats Care?

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Jeff Bryant

July 6, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Reform Lessons from Skeptical But Not Cynical Veterans

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Larry Cuban

July 5, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: The Charter School Free-Riding Problem

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Jersey Jazzman

July 3, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: National Education Policy Center: New Research on Virtual Charter Schools

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Diane Ravitch

June 30, 2017

OurFuture.org: Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can

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Jeff Bryant

June 29, 2017

The Answer Sheet: New Study Backs Academic Rigor for Preschoolers. Oh, Please.

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Valerie Strauss and Diane Levin

June 28, 2017

School Finance 101: The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis

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Bruce D. Baker and Mark Weber

June 27, 2017

Janresseger: Trying to Sort Out All the Concerns about Charters and Vouchers

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Jan Resseger

June 26, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Problems with Charter Schools That You Won’t Hear Betsy DeVos Talk About

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

June 23, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Lubienskis: Why is Betsy DeVos Pushing Vouchers When Research Shows They Don’t Work?

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Diane Ravitch

June 22, 2017

Shanker Blog: The Teacher Testimony Project: Mobilizing and Lifting the Voices of Teachers of Color

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Conra D. Gist

June 21, 2017

Curmudgucation: DeVos Doctrine Reaches Out to Charter Fans

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Peter Greene

June 20, 2017

Living in Dialogue: Silicon Valley Philanthropy Opens Classrooms to De-Personalized Learning

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John Thompson

June 19, 2017

Janresseger: Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Get It: Catering to the Desires of Individuals Won’t Serve the Common Good

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Jan Resseger

June 16, 2017

OurFuture.org: DeVos Education Hires Bode Ill for Students’ Rights

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Jeff Bryant

June 15, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NEPC Evaluates a Report on How to Remove Democratic Control of Your Public Schools: Thumbs Down!

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Diane Ravitch

June 14, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Fairy Tale Reform

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Larry Cuban

June 13, 2017

VT Digger: William Mathis: Trump’s Education Budget - A Paradise Lost?

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William J. Mathis

June 12, 2017

Shanker Blog: Diversity Offers a Clear Path to Brighter Futures For All Children

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John B. King, Jr.

June 9, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Why Schools Still Can't Put Segregation Behind Them

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Derek W. Black

June 8, 2017

OurFuture.org: Our School Funding Crisis Has a Cause: Bad Leadership

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Jeff Bryant

June 7, 2017

Janresseger: Why Betsy DeVos Is Wrong about Privatization of Education: Growing Consensus about Charters

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Jan Resseger

June 6, 2017

Network for Public Education: The Network for Public Education Issues its Position Statement on Charter Schools

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Carol C. Burris

June 5, 2017

The Answer Sheet: The Long Game of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

June 2, 2017

Teaching/Math/Culture: Choice Systems and False Agency

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Ilana Horn

June 1, 2017

OurFuture.org: DeVos Budget Robs from Poor Kids to Fund Schools That Discriminate

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Jeff Bryant

May 31, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: William Mathis: Paradise Lost, Or, Trump’s Budget Cuts to Education

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Diane Ravitch

May 30, 2017

Education in Two Worlds: A Citizen's Encounter With a Charter School

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Gene V Glass

May 26, 2017

Shanker Blog: Improving Accountability Measurement Under ESSA

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 25, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Trump Budget Would Abandon Public Education for Private Choice

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Derek W. Black

May 24, 2017

The Answer Sheet: The Problems with 2017 National Rankings of America’s High Schools

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Valerie Strauss

May 23, 2017

Living in Dialogue: Will Corporate Reformers Ever Admit They Were Wrong?

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John Thompson

May 22, 2017

Cloaking Inequity: National and Urban NAEP Results: Neighborhood Public Schools 23, Charters 4

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 19, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Personal Data is Collected on Kids at School All the Time. Here’s Help for Parents to Protect Children’s Privacy.

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Valerie Strauss, Leonie Haimson, and Rachael Stickland

May 18, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: U-Ark Screws Up a Charter School Revenue Study, AGAIN: Part I

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Jersey Jazzman

May 17, 2017

OurFuture.org: What Is the Purpose of School Choice?

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Jeff Bryant

May 16, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: William Mathis on the Illusory Graduation Rate of Students in D.C. Voucher Schools

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Diane Ravitch

May 15, 2017

The Answer Sheet: There Are Better Ways Than Suspension to Discipline Kids. Here Are Two Schools Doing Just That.

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

May 12, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: ‘Moonlight’ Schooled Hollywood on Race. Can It Take on School Discipline, Too?

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Derek W. Black

May 11, 2017

VAMboozled!: Also Last Thursday in Nevada: The “Top Ten” Research-Based Reasons Why Large-Scale, Standardized Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 10, 2017

The Answer Sheet: How Three Schools Creatively Face the Challenge of Educating Immigrant Students

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

May 9, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: William J. Mathis: Fake News from Florida About Charter “Success”

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Diane Ravitch

May 8, 2017

OurFuture.org: The Democrats’ Dilemma on Charter Schools

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Jeff Bryant

May 5, 2017

Have You Heard: Education Can’t Fix Poverty. So Why Keep Insisting that It Can?

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Jennifer Berkshire

May 4, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Can Technology Change How Teachers Teach? (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

May 3, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: Desperately Searching For the Merit Pay Fairy

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Jersey Jazzman

May 2, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: The Trump Administration Misunderstands the Difference Between School Reform and School Improvement

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Derek W. Black

May 1, 2017

Janresseger: School Segregation Driven by Parental Privilege and School Choice

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Jan Resseger

April 28, 2017

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Trump Orders DeVos To Do a Study. Why?

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Mike Klonsky

April 27, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Wonderful News! Kevin Welner of NEPC Honored by American Educational Research Association

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Diane Ravitch

April 26, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: Think Tank Advocacy Reports Not Credible for Education Policy: SC Edition

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P.L. Thomas

April 25, 2017

Shanker Blog: How Relationships Drive School Improvement—And Actionable Data Foster Strong Relationships

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Elaine Allensworth, Molly Gordon, and Lucinda Fickel

April 24, 2017

OurFuture.org: Early Signs Betsy DeVos Will Not Support Civil Rights

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Jeff Bryant

April 21, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: UPDATED: Beware the “Miracle” School Claim: “Why Not Tell the Whole Story?”

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P.L. Thomas

April 20, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: New Report Paints California's Charter Schools As Economic Boondoggle That Has Little to Do with Student Need, Cost Efficiency, or Quality

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Derek W. Black

April 19, 2017

Janresseger: Ideology Drives School Privatization without Much Attention to the Real Consequences

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Jan Resseger

April 18, 2017

Shanker Blog: Subgroup-Specific Accountability, Teacher Job Assignments, and Teacher Attrition: Lessons For States (by Matthew Shirrell)

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Matthew Shirrell

April 17, 2017

The Conversation: Tax Credits, School Choice and ‘Neovouchers’: What You Need To Know

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Kevin G. Welner

April 14, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: The Tone-Deaf Politics of Denying Racism, Excusing Segregation

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P.L. Thomas

April 13, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: National Education Policy Center: Failing Cybercharters Continue to Grow

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Diane Ravitch

April 12, 2017

Education in Two Worlds: Arizona's Neo-Vouchers: The Camel is in the Tent

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Gene V Glass

April 11, 2017

Have You Heard: Crony Capitalism

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Jennifer Berkshire

April 10, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Arizona's New Voucher Program Set to Become Largest in the Nation, But It Is Also the Biggest Farce

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Derek W. Black

April 7, 2017

VAMboozled!: New (Unvetted) Research about Washington DC’s Teacher Evaluation Reforms

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 6, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: VAM, Teacher Bashing, and Unintended Outcomes: “[A]ll [Teacher] Exits Increased Under the New Evaluations”

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P.L. Thomas

April 5, 2017

OurFuture.org: The Big Lie Behind Trump’s Education Budget

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Jeff Bryant

April 4, 2017

Shanker Blog: Teacher Evaluations and Turnover in Houston

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Matthew Di Carlo

April 3, 2017

The Answer Sheet: What the Public Isn’t Told About High-Performing Charter Schools in Arizona

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

March 30, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Continuum on Personalized Learning: First Draft

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Larry Cuban

March 29, 2017

Janresseger: How the Nation’s Two Oldest School Voucher Programs Are Working: Part I—Wisconsin

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Jan Resseger

March 28, 2017

Have You Heard: Private Practice

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Jennifer Berkshire

March 27, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Study Finds Court Ordered Funding Reforms Produce Five Percent Increase in Graduation Rates

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Derek W. Black

March 24, 2017

OurFuture.org: Words That Hurt Our Public Schools, and Ones That Help

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Jeff Bryant

March 23, 2017

Mike Rose’s Blog: Rereading “Vocational Education and the New World of Work”

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Mike Rose

March 22, 2017

Out of Our Minds: Putting the Public Back in Public Schooling

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Craig Howley

March 21, 2017

Living in Dialogue: Corporate Reform: Turning a Profit at Public Expense

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John Thompson

March 20, 2017

Arkansas Online: Poverty, Race and Arkansas’ School Grades

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Christian Z. Goering , William Davis, and Jason Endacott

March 17, 2017

Curmudgucation: Alternative Pathways

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Peter Greene

March 16, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teachers and Researchers: Searching for the Truth of Classroom Change

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Larry Cuban

March 15, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of Research in Education

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P.L. Thomas

March 14, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Academics Are Only Part of the Education This School Offers Its Diverse Student Body

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 13, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Alex Molnar: Spinning Rightwing Ideology into Gold

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Diane Ravitch

March 10, 2017

Janresseger: School Privatization Means Loss of Public Investment to Profits and Sacrifice of Students’ Rights

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Jan Resseger

March 9, 2017

OurFuture.org: School Vouchers Are a ‘False Road,’ and There’s Data to Prove It

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Jeff Bryant

March 8, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Stress, Race, Class, and School by Jonathan Glater

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Derek W. Black

March 7, 2017

VAMboozled!: David Berliner on The Purported Failure of America’s Schools

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 6, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: Blaming Public Employees for NJ's Fiscal Mess: Today's Dopey Episode

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Jersey Jazzman

March 3, 2017

Shanker Blog: New Teacher Evaluations And Teacher Job Satisfaction

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 2, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Study: Private School Vouchers Favored By DeVos Don’t Offer Real Advantage Over Public Schools

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Valerie Strauss

March 1, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: Rescuing Education Reform from Decades of Post-Truth

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P.L. Thomas

February 28, 2017

OurFuture.org: Trump and DeVos Hatch a Deceptive Scheme to Push School Vouchers

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Jeff Bryant

February 27, 2017

VAMboozled!: NCTQ on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems’ Failures

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 24, 2017

Have You Heard: States’ Rights and Wrongs

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Jennifer Berkshire

February 23, 2017

Education Matters: National Scholar Calls Alabama Report On Accountability Act “Fairy Dust”

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Larry Lee

February 22, 2017

Janresseger: In First Week on the Job, DeVos Shows She Likes Choice, Doesn’t Understand Public Education

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Jan Resseger

February 21, 2017

Education in Two Worlds: Fed's "Gold Standard" Produces Fool's Gold

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Gene V Glass

February 20, 2017

Yong Zhao: What Works Can Hurt: Side Effects in Education

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Yong Zhao

February 17, 2017

UCLA Center X: The Struggle for Educational Justice in the Age of Trump

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John Rogers

February 16, 2017

The Answer Sheet: More Than Test Scores: ‘Schools of Opportunity’ to Recognize High Schools That Create Full Learning

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Adam York

February 15, 2017

Janresseger: Lacking Experience, What Will Trump and DeVos Do to Rural and Small Town Public Schools?

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Jan Resseger

February 14, 2017

Cloaking Inequity: Are Charters the Answer for Ed? Testifying @NAACP Charter School Hearing

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

February 13, 2017

OurFuture.org: Progressives Lost the Vote on DeVos But Won Something Valuable

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Jeff Bryant

February 10, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How and Why I Research Exemplars of Technology Integration

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Larry Cuban

February 9, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: New Report Focuses on Connection Between Criminal Justice and Education Policies, But the Real Problem is Education Quality

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Derek W. Black

February 8, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: School Choice Week's Alternative Facts

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Jersey Jazzman

February 7, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Billionaire Blunders: Appointing Education Chiefs Who Know Little about Public Schools

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Larry Cuban

February 6, 2017

Janresseger: Universal Public Education and the Common Good

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Jan Resseger

February 3, 2017

VAMboozled!: States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems Now “All Over the Map”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 2, 2017

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: New Study: Vouchers Enable Discrimination and Segregation

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Diane Ravitch

February 1, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: New School Funding Fairness Report Is Available, Showing Continued Stagnation Since the Recession

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Derek W. Black

January 31, 2017

Cloaking Inequity: Are Charters Beacons of Opportunity for Special Needs Students?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

January 30, 2017

Janresseger: New Reports Question Education Strategy Pushed by Trump Administration

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Jan Resseger

January 27, 2017

OurFuture.org: New Reports Reveal the Big Charter School ‘Accountability’ Lie

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Jeff Bryant

January 26, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Curriculum Matters: How These Four Schools Engage All Students in Learning

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

January 25, 2017

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Judging Success and Failure of Reforms in Classroom Practice

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Larry Cuban

January 24, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Does Money Matter in Education? Bruce Baker's New Report Says Yes

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Derek W. Black

January 23, 2017

Janresseger: In Penetrating Analysis, Joanne Barkan Predicts Likely Direction of a DeVos Education Department

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Jan Resseger

January 19, 2017

EduShyster: The Red Queen

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January 18, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Education Deans to Trump: We’re ‘Seriously Concerned’ About Your Agenda

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Valerie Strauss

January 17, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: Will NJDOE Turn Charter School Teachers Into Indentured Servants?

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Jersey Jazzman

January 13, 2017

Living in Dialogue: SPED Shenanigans Highlight Trouble with NOLA Charter Data

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John Thompson

January 12, 2017

Curmudgucation: Charter Fans Challenge DeVos

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Peter Greene

January 11, 2017

Janresseger: Mitt Romney Speaks Up for Governance by Plutocrats

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Jan Resseger

January 10, 2017

Education Law Prof Blog: Are Pence and DeVos a One-Two Knock Out for Education Policy? Recent Reports Out of Indiana Suggest Yes

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Derek W. Black

January 9, 2017

Radical Eyes for Equity: Don’t Count on Grading, Ranking Educational Quality

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P.L. Thomas

January 6, 2017

Campaign for America’s Future: Girding for the Education Fight Ahead

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Jeff Bryant

January 5, 2017

Jersey Jazzman: The Attacks on Teacher Tenure Still Don't Make Sense

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Jersey Jazzman

January 4, 2017

School Finance 101: Thoughts on Junk Indicators, School Rating Systems & Accountability

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Bruce D. Baker

January 3, 2017

Deborah Meier on Education: Democratic Schooling

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Deborah Meier

December 30, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Hillsdale College Connection Reveals Trump’s Extremist Education Agenda

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Jeff Bryant

December 29, 2016

Yong Zhao: Did the Shift from Paper to Computer Bring Down East Asia’s (China’s) PISA Performance?

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Yong Zhao

December 28, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: "Kingdom Gain" Through School Vouchers: It's Already Working

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Jersey Jazzman

December 27, 2016

VAMboozled!: Another Study about Bias in Teachers’ Observational Scores

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 22, 2016

The Answer Sheet: This School Isn’t Just About Academics. The Emotional and Physical Health of Kids Matters Too.

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

December 21, 2016

Shanker Blog: Three Important Details When Discussing School Segregation

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Matthew Di Carlo

December 20, 2016

Yong Zhao: Stop Copying Others: TIMSS Lessons for America

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Yong Zhao

December 15, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: New Study Finds That Money Has a Large Effect on Student Achievement, But It Is Not News--It Is a Sad Reminder of What We Must Do

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Derek W. Black

December 14, 2016

School Finance 101: The Charter School Company Store

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Bruce D. Baker

December 13, 2016

Rutland Herald: Dangers to Public Education Mount

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William J. Mathis

December 12, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why This High School Works: ‘We Are in a Perpetual State of Improvement.’

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

December 9, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Is Educational Research Validating Corrupt Practices in New Orleans?

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John Thompson

December 8, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Tar Heel Heist: How the Charter School Industry is Hijacking Public Ed

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Jeff Bryant

December 7, 2016

Mike Rose’s Blog: Donald Trump, Celebrity Culture, and the White Working Class

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Mike Rose

December 6, 2016

Janresseger: Major New Report Shows that Charters Are Too Often Parasites Weakening Host School Districts

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Jan Resseger

December 5, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Almost All Students Here are Refugees — and They Speak 16 Uncommon Languages. How this School Makes it Work.

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

December 2, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: What Can We Learn About Betsy DeVos From Her Husband's Charter School?

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Jersey Jazzman

December 1, 2016

Huffington Post: Melania’s Policy on Bullying

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Kevin G. Welner

November 30, 2016

Yong Zhao: It Must Be Chopsticks: The Less Reported Findings of 2015 TIMSS and Explaining the East Asian Outstanding Performance

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Yong Zhao

November 29, 2016

The Answer Sheet: To Help Kids Succeed, This Rural School Gets Help From Unusual Sources. Dentists, for Example.

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Valerie Strauss, Carol C. Burris, and Kevin G. Welner

November 28, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Do NOLA Test Score Increases Demonstrate Real Learning Gains?

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John Thompson

November 23, 2016

Shanker Blog: New Evidence on Teaching Quality and the Achievement Gap

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 22, 2016

Psychology Today: Improving School Climate

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Elizabeth J. Meyer

November 21, 2016

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Laura Chapman: What Does the Gates Foundation Want to Know About Your Child? Everything.

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Diane Ravitch

November 18, 2016

The Art of Teaching Science: Let’s Privatize American Education Even If There Is Little to No Research to Support School Choice

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November 17, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Doing Well By Doing Good: For-Profit Schools

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November 16, 2016

VAMboozled!: New Book: Student Growth Measures (SGMs) in Educational Policy and Practice

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November 15, 2016

The Answer Sheet: This High-Poverty School Succeeds by Focusing on Adventure, the Arts, Project-Based Learning

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November 14, 2016

Janresseger: What Will a Trump Administration Mean for Supporters of Public Education?

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November 11, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Five Truths About Charter Schools

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November 10, 2016

The Answer Sheet: How One School Created a ‘Safe, Comfortable Place’ for Students and Teachers

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November 9, 2016

UCLA Center X Just Talk: Voices of Education and Justice: Election Matters

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November 8, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: Thoughts On Question 2 and Charter School Expansion

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November 7, 2016

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November 4, 2016

The Answer Sheet: This School Was on the Brink of Closure. Here’s How It Saved Itself

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November 3, 2016

Shanker Blog: Do Subgroup Accountability Measures Affect School Ratings Systems?

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November 2, 2016

Janresseger: What Would It Take to Turn Back the Wave of Behaviorism in American Education?

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Jan Resseger

November 1, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Uncovering Lasting Lessons from Decades of Education Reform

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John Thompson

October 31, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why the Shine is Off the Charter School Movement

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October 26, 2016

Network for Public Education: The Fraud of Computer Scoring on the Common Core Exams

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October 25, 2016

Shanker Blog: A Few Reactions to the Final Teacher Preparation Accountability Regulations

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October 24, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: What New Challenges to the Charter School Industry Reveal

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October 21, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Rich Reformers Reject Research

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October 20, 2016

VAMboozled!: The “Value-Added” of Teacher Preparation Programs: New Research

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October 19, 2016

Janresseger: Homelessness in NYC Poses Problems for Families, Children, and Schools: We Blame the Schools

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October 18, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Charters and Choice: Research Shows Negative Impact

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October 17, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Study Finds That Harsh School Discipline Costs Nation $35 Billion, Showing Connection to Much Larger Education and Social Issues

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October 14, 2016

VAMboozled!: U.S. Department of Education: Value-Added Not Good for Evaluating Schools and Principals

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October 13, 2016

Janresseger: Homelessness in NYC Poses Problems for Families, Children, and Schools: We Blame the Schools

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October 12, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Federal Government Feeds Charter School Beast Despite Auditor’s Warnings

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October 11, 2016

Yong Zhao: From Deficiency to Strength: Shifting the Mindset about Education Inequality

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October 10, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Evidence Shows Brutal Impact of Racial and Economic Segregation

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October 7, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Teacher Shortages Require Coordinated Strategies, Not Silver Bullets

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October 6, 2016

VAMboozled!: New Empirical Evidence: Students’ “Persistent Economic Disadvantage” More Likely to Bias Value-Added Estimates

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 5, 2016

Janresseger: Nevada Education Savings Account Vouchers Ruled Unconstitutional by Nevada’s Supreme Court

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Jan Resseger

October 4, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Charters and Choice: Research Shows Negative Impact

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John Thompson

October 3, 2016

Shanker Blog: Economic Segregation in New York City Schools

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September 30, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why California’s Charter School Sector is Called 'the Wild West’

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September 29, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Disciplinary Bias by Race and Gender Begins in Preschool

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September 28, 2016

Janresseger: Please Read this Penetrating Indictment of the Every Student Succeeds Act

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September 27, 2016

Curmudgucation: Essential Reading for Education Activists (and Wonks)

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September 26, 2016

The Art of Teaching Science: The Undemocratic Character of Georgia’s Chronically Failing School Turnaround Amendment

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Jack Hassard

September 23, 2016

Shanker Blog: The Details Matter in Teacher Evaluations

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September 22, 2016

The Answer Sheet: School Reform: What Went Wrong, What Went Right, and What We Should Do in the Future

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September 21, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline by Derek Black

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September 20, 2016

The Answer Sheet: The Problem with the Growing Effort to ‘Disrupt’ Teacher Preparation in the United States

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September 19, 2016

EduShyster: To Market, To Market

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September 16, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: The Racism of School Closures

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Jeff Bryant

September 15, 2016

Janresseger: New Research Shows Preschool Achievement Gap Has Begun to Narrow

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Jan Resseger

September 13, 2016

The Answer Sheet: The 20 Schools That Won 2016 Schools of Opportunity Awards — And Why They Were Selected

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September 12, 2016

The Answer Sheet: How Messed Up is California’s Charter School Sector? You Won’t Believe How Much.

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September 9, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Who Gains Most From School Choice? Not Low-Income Students of Color

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September 8, 2016

Curmudgucation: Mother Jones: Black Teachers Matter

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September 7, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Renowned Scholars Examine Effective, Equitable School Reforms in New Book

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September 6, 2016

Janresseger: Please Testify in State Hearings on ESSA Plans: Point Out the Road Away from Test-and-Punish

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September 2, 2016

Cloaking Inequity: 10 Things to Know about the Charter School Debate

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September 1, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: John Oliver Slams Charter Schools and His Critics Totally Miss the Point

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August 31, 2016

Truthout: The ADHD Epidemic: Smart Drugs and the Control of Bodies and Minds

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August 30, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Will the Thing That Charter Schools Love So Much Be Their Undoing?

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August 29, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: The Nation's Most Socio-economically Segregated Schools

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Derek W. Black

August 26, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Will Tom Toch Ever Find a Reform Bad Enough to Abandon?

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John Thompson

August 25, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: What Your Back-To-School List Reveals About Our Underfunded Schools

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Jeff Bryant

August 24, 2016

Teaching/Math/Culture: What Does It Mean to Study Teachers’ Learning from a Sociocultural Perspective?

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Ilana Horn

August 23, 2016

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: John Thompson: What If Reformers Had Paid Attention to Research-Based Solutions Instead of Billionaires’ Preferences?

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August 22, 2016

The Conversation: How Companies Learn What Children Secretly Want

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August 19, 2016

Curmudgucation: AEI: Comparing Public and Charter Schools

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August 18, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: Useless Testing "Gap" Analyses and the Newspapers That Love Them

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Jersey Jazzman

August 17, 2016

VAMboozled!: Using VAMs “In Not Very Intelligent Ways:” A Q&A with Jesse Rothstein

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 16, 2016

Janresseger: Research Summarizes the Public School Advantage

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Jan Resseger

August 15, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: How Populism is Rewriting the Charter School Narrative

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August 12, 2016

Shanker Blog: Thinking About Tests While Rethinking Test-Based Accountability

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August 11, 2016

The Answer Sheet: NAACP Members Call for Ban on Privately Managed Charter Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

August 10, 2016

Janresseger: New Book Gathers Research Proving False the Myths and Promises of NCLB and RTTT

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Jan Resseger

August 9, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Class Practice: America’s Not-So-Broken Education System (Jack Schneider) (by Jack Schneider)

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August 8, 2016

Cloaking Inequity: Are Charter Schools Neither Civil or Right? Assessing the Intersection of Voting Rights and Educational Equity

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August 5, 2016

Schools Matter: ESSA: Vermont State Board of Ed Letter to John B. King

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August 4, 2016

Janresseger: New Book Defines the Case Against KIPP and Other Charter Management Organizations

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Jan Resseger

August 3, 2016

Teaching/Math/Culture: Structure Can Change Agency

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August 2, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: Who is Running America’s Charter Schools? A Data Correction

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Jersey Jazzman

August 1, 2016

VAMboozled!: One Score and Seven Policy Iterations Ago…

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 29, 2016

Shanker Blog: A Small But Meaningful Change in Florida's School Grades System

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July 28, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Insider or Outsider?: Superintendents in Big Cities

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Larry Cuban

July 27, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: New Study Confirms the Role Race Plays in School Choice, But Past Experience and Common Sense Offer a Solution

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Derek W. Black

July 26, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why Charter Schools Get Public Education Advocates So Angry

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

July 25, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Paul Tough Turns Away from Punitive Education Reforms

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John Thompson

July 22, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Choice and Walling Off Poverty

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P.L. Thomas

July 21, 2016

VAMboozled!: New Book on Market-Based, Educational Reforms

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 20, 2016

EduShyster: The Cost of Choice

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July 19, 2016

Shanker Blog: A Myth Grows in the Garden State

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Matthew Di Carlo

July 15, 2016

Janresseger: Small Classes Narrow Achievement Gaps: William Mathis Presents the Research

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Jan Resseger

July 14, 2016

VAMboozled!: Center on the Future of American Education, on America’s “New and Improved” Teacher Evaluation Systems

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 13, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Nation's Largest Teacher Union Adopts Policy Statement on School Discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Rebalancing the Politics of Reform

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Derek W. Black

July 12, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Schools That Integrate Technology: Silicon Valley

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Larry Cuban

July 11, 2016

The Becoming Radical: NEW from IAP: Learning from the Federal Market‐Based Reforms: Lessons for ESSA

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P.L. Thomas

July 8, 2016

Janresseger: My Public Education Platform

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Jan Resseger

July 7, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Are Public Schools and Private Equity a Bad Mix?

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Jeff Bryant

July 6, 2016

VAMboozled!: Five “Indisputable” Reasons Why VAMs are Good?

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

July 5, 2016

Curmudgucation: NJ: A Research Answer to Christie's Terrible Funding Proposal

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Peter Greene

July 1, 2016

Shanker Blog: The Intervention That Works Across Settings With All Children

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Geoff Marietta, Chad d'Entremont , and Emily E. Murphy

June 30, 2016

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Why Class Size Matters: A Research Brief

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Diane Ravitch

June 29, 2016

At the Chalkface: A Testing Culture is a Toxic One

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Shaun Johnson

June 28, 2016

Janresseger: State Says Los Angeles Schools Must Spend More on Poor Students and English Learners

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Jan Resseger

June 27, 2016

Gadfly on the Wall Blog: PA House: Online Courses for the Poor. Teachers for the Rich.

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Steven Singer

June 24, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Scholarship: Black on Teacher Quality, Parker on School Segregation, and Robinson on Education Federalism

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LaJuana Davis

June 23, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Why Denver is a Warning Sign, Not a Model, for Urban School Districts

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Jeff Bryant

June 22, 2016

VAMboozled!: VAMs Are Never “Accurate, Reliable, and Valid”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 21, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. Redux: A Reader

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P.L. Thomas

June 20, 2016

Shanker Blog: Teachers’ Opinions of Teacher Evaluation Systems

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Matthew Di Carlo

June 17, 2016

Janresseger: Republican Detroit Plan Invests Too Little, Fails to Regulate Out-of-Control Charter Sector

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Jan Resseger

June 16, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Mindless Underfunding of Schools Continues, Doing Harm to Kids

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Jeff Bryant

June 15, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Class Practice: This Ed-Reform Trend is Supposed to Motivate Students; Instead, It Shames Them (Launa Hall) (by Launa Hall)

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Launa Hall

June 14, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Common Core Isn’t Preparing Students Very Well for College or Career, New Report Says

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Valerie Strauss

June 13, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: New Civil Rights Data Shows Just How Misguided Attack on Tenure Is; Teacher Quality Problems Run Much Deeper

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Derek W. Black

June 10, 2016

VAMboozled!: The Danielson Framework: Evidence of Un/Warranted Use

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 9, 2016

Shanker Blog: New Research Report: Are U.S. Schools Inefficient?

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Matthew Di Carlo

June 8, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Who Uses Educational Research? And How?

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John Thompson

June 7, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: How Charter Schools Heighten the Politicization of Education

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Jeff Bryant

June 6, 2016

Janresseger: Segregation — Racial, Ethnic, and Economic — Dominates Nation’s Schools

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Jan Resseger

June 2, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Alice in PARCCland: Does ‘Validity Study’ Really Prove the Common Core Test is Valid?

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Valerie Strauss and William J. Mathis

June 1, 2016

Educating. All Our Children: Tyranny of Testing Companies: Privacy or Proprietary?

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Linda McSpadden McNeil

May 31, 2016

EduShyster: Helping Children Succeed (Will Require Doing Pretty Much the Opposite of Just About Everything We’re Doing Now)

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May 26, 2016

Shanker Blog: Are U.S. Schools Resegregating?

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 24, 2016

At the Chalkface: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

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Shaun Johnson

May 23, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: New Study Connects the Dots Between School Funding Choices and Student Achievement, Highlighting the Dangers of Retrenchment in Courts

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Derek W. Black

May 20, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Recycling Poverty, Segregated Schools, and Academic Achievement: Then and Now

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Larry Cuban

May 19, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #8 of 9, Part I): A More Research-Based Assessment of VAMs’ Potentials

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 18, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Schools Are Now ‘Soft Targets’ for Companies to Collect Data and Market to Kids — Report

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Valerie Strauss

May 17, 2016

Janresseger: Phantom Students—One Part of a Much Bigger Problem of Unregulated Charter Schools

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Jan Resseger

May 16, 2016

Shanker Blog: New Research Brief: Teacher Segregation In Los Angeles And New York City

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Kinga Wysieńska-Di Carlo

May 13, 2016

The Becoming Radical: “A New Study Shows,” Education, and the Media

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P.L. Thomas

May 12, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A Master Teacher Went to Court to Challenge Her Low Evaluation. What Her Win Means for Her Profession

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

May 11, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: School Vouchers are Not a Cure for Segregation: Part I

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Jersey Jazzman

May 10, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Business-inspired School Reform: Has the Wave Crested?

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Larry Cuban

May 9, 2016

VAMboozled!: Virginia SGP’s Side of the Story

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 6, 2016

Janresseger: Reardon Releases New Research on Achievement Gaps: It Isn’t All About “Failing” Schools

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Jan Resseger

May 5, 2016

Shanker Blog: Charter Schools and Longer Term Student Outcomes

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 4, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: How School Vouchers Promote Religious Schools and Hurt Education

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Jeff Bryant

May 3, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: The Toxic Mix of Segregation and Achievement Gaps--A Problem That Money Alone Won't Fix

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Derek W. Black

May 2, 2016

EduShyster: Holding Back to Get Ahead

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April 29, 2016

Janresseger: As the One Percent Insulates Itself and Buys Political Power, Public Education Suffers

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Jan Resseger

April 28, 2016

Shanker Blog: Changing the Narrative: Leveraging Education Policy to Address Segregation

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Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara Finnigan

April 27, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Even Technocrats with Good Intentions Sustain Classroom Colonialism

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P.L. Thomas

April 26, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 25, 2016

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: William Mathis: The Cargo Cult and Corporate Reform Theory

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Diane Ravitch

April 21, 2016

VAMboozled!: Teachers’ “Similar” Value-Added Estimates Yield “Different” Meanings Across “Different” Contexts

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 20, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Here Comes the Charter School Sneak Attack on Bipartisan Policy

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Jeff Bryant

April 19, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: California Court of Appeal Deals Legal Assault on Teacher Tenure a Major Blow, Laying Bare Its Shallow Assumptions

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Derek W. Black

April 18, 2016

Shanker Blog: Getting Serious About Measuring Collaborative Teacher Practice

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Nathan D. Jones

April 15, 2016

Janresseger: Even Community Schools are Not Enough; We Must Confront Child Poverty

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Jan Resseger

April 14, 2016

Curmudgucation: The Benefits of Career and Tech Education

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Peter Greene

April 13, 2016

VAMboozled!: Kane is at It, Again: “Statistically Significant” Claims Exaggerated to Influence Policy

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 12, 2016

At the Chalkface: A Challenge to Education Researchers

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Shaun Johnson

April 11, 2016

National Institute for Early Education Research: How Much Can High-Quality Universal Pre-K Reduce Achievement Gaps?

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Allison Friedman-Krauss

April 8, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: New Study Suggests Voucher Programs May Fuel Segregation

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Derek W. Black

April 7, 2016

Shanker Blog: The Hidden Power of Our Social Worlds

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Esther Quintero

April 6, 2016

Janresseger: National Education Policy Center Releases Profound Analysis of Portfolio School Reform

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Jan Resseger

April 5, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Is Education Being Measured to Death?

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Jeff Bryant

April 4, 2016

School Finance 101: Searching for Costello in New Jersey: Time for a New School Funding Challenge in the Post-Abbott Era?

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Bruce D. Baker

April 1, 2016

VAMboozled!: The ACT Testing Corporation (Unsurprisingly) Against America’s Opt-Out Movement

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 31, 2016

Janresseger: Schott Foundation-NEPC Infographic Depicts What’s Necessary for Justice in Our Schools

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Jan Resseger

March 30, 2016

Shanker Blog: Collaboration is the Way We Work, Not an “Activity”

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Joseph Vincente

March 29, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: How the Walmart Business Model is Reshaping American Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

March 28, 2016

VAMboozled: Contradictory Data Complicate Definitions of, and Attempts to Capture, “Teacher Effects”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 25, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Today in “Don’t Believe It”

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P.L. Thomas

March 24, 2016

The Answer Sheet: No, Great Schools Can’t Close Achievement Gaps All By Themselves

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 23, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: New Study Reviews 25 Years of Research into What Helps Students Graduate – Here’s What They Found

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Larry Ferlazzo

March 22, 2016

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: New Study Finds Many Charters Feeding School-To-Prison Pipeline

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Mike Klonsky

March 21, 2016

EduShyster: Disparate Measures

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March 18, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Education Researchers Blast Common Core Standards, Urge Ban on High-Stakes Tests

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Valerie Strauss

March 17, 2016

Shanker Blog: Teachers and Professional Collaboration: How Sweden Has Become the ABBA of Educational Change

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Andy Hargreaves

March 16, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: The Urgent Education Issue That Needs To Be in the Presidential Debates

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Jeff Bryant

March 15, 2016

VAMboozled!: Kane’s (Ironic) Calls for an Education Equivalent to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)

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March 14, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Choosing Exemplars of Technology Integration: Teachers

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Larry Cuban

March 11, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: “Deeper Learning” in the News Today

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Larry Ferlazzo

March 10, 2016

Teaching/Math/Culture: Professional Development is Broken, But Be Careful How We Fix It

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Ilana Horn

March 8, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: The Myth of the Heroic Charter School - Part I

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Jersey Jazzman

March 7, 2016

Janresseger: Exposing the Effects of Child Poverty Hidden in Plain Sight

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Jan Resseger

March 4, 2016

Shanker Blog: Student Sorting and Teacher Classroom Observations

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 3, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Questioning the Questions Asked about Education

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P.L. Thomas

March 2, 2016

VAMboozled!: Everything is Bigger (and Badder) in Texas: Houston’s Teacher Value-Added System

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March 1, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: The Education ‘Reform’ Bargain is Off. Here’s What We Need Instead.

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Jeff Bryant

February 29, 2016

Janresseger: New Study: In Education Money Matters, Helps Poor Districts, Raises Achievement

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Jan Resseger

February 26, 2016

Shanker Blog: Beyond Teacher Quality

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Esther Quintero

February 25, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A ‘Broader Bolder’ Approach to Even the Education Playing Field

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Elaine Weiss and Valerie Strauss

February 24, 2016

School Finance 101: Strolling Through the PARCC (Data)

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Bruce D. Baker

February 23, 2016

VAMboozled!: Chetty et al. v. Rothstein on VAM-Based Bias, Again

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 22, 2016

Shanker Blog: Student Attrition And "Backfilling" at Success Academy Charter Schools: What Student Enrollment Patterns Tell Us

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Leo Casey

February 19, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: Another Study Shows Limitations of Standardized Tests for Teacher Evaluations

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Larry Ferlazzo

February 18, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Reflecting on School Reforms: Scaling Up versus Short, Happy Life or Hanging In

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Larry Cuban

February 17, 2016

Progressive Educator: Guest Post: Shaving Cream Lattes and Educational “Innovation” (by Derrick Mears)

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February 16, 2016

VAMboozled!: In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 15, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Why State Leaders Need to Back Away from School Takeover Agencies

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Jeff Bryant

February 12, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Integration As Mainstream Policy and Conversation Getting Closer and Closer

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February 11, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Looking Anew at How Teachers Teach

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Larry Cuban

February 10, 2016

Education in Two Worlds: Would Horace Mann Tweet?

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February 8, 2016

Shanker Blog: The IMPACT of Teacher Turnover in DCPS

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February 5, 2016

Progressive Educator: Which States Value Public Education? A New Report from NPE Says “Pretty Much None of Them”

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February 4, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Study: Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs

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February 3, 2016

VAMboozled!: Report on the Stability of Student Growth Percentile (SGP) “Value-Added” Estimates

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February 2, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: A New Lawsuit Challenges the Legality of ‘No Excuse’ Charter Schools

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Jeff Bryant

February 1, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers (Robert Wachter) (by Robert Wachter)

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Robert Wachter

January 29, 2016

Shanker Blog: The Narrative of School Failure and Why We Must Pay Attention to Segregation in Educational Policy

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January 28, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #7 of 9): VAMs Situated in Appropriate Ecologies

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 27, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Chicago Schools with the Most Disadvantaged Students Have the Most "Ineffective" Teachers, According to New Study

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Derek W. Black

January 26, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: New Study Suggests That Teacher Observations Should Focus More on Teacher Inputs, Less on Student Outcomes

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Larry Ferlazzo

January 25, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Here’s How a Ruling in Favor of Friedrichs Will Hurt Education

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Jeff Bryant

January 22, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Addressing Teacher Quality Post-NCLB

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P.L. Thomas

January 21, 2016

Shanker Blog: New Report: Does Money Matter in Education? Second Edition

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Matthew Di Carlo

January 20, 2016

VAMboozled!: Houston Lawsuit Update, with Summary of Expert Witnesses’ Findings about the EVAAS

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 19, 2016

Teaching/Math/Culture: Building Teaching as a Responsive Profession

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Ilana Horn

January 15, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A Worthwhile Opportunity for Public High Schools - Deadline Approaching

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

January 14, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Why High School Exit Exams, Not Students, are Worthless: Part One

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Denise Hertzog Pursche

January 13, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: We’re Onto the Phony Education Reformers

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Jeff Bryant

January 12, 2016

The Becoming Radical: What Football Reveals for Education about False Allure of Quantification

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P.L. Thomas

January 11, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #6 of 9): VAMs as Tools for “Egg-Crate” Schools

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 8, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Flawed Assumptions about School Reform Strengthening the U.S. Economy

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Larry Cuban

January 7, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Charter School Study Offers New Findings on Student Achievement, Student Enrollment, and Teachers

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Derek W. Black

January 6, 2016

EduShyster: Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?

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January 5, 2016

Rutland Herald: New Education Law: A Lot of Suds

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William J. Mathis

January 4, 2016

School Finance 101: School Finance Reality vs. the Money Doesn’t Matter Echo Chamber

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Bruce D. Baker

December 31, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: The Important Education Issue Leaders Are Still Ignoring

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Jeff Bryant

December 30, 2015

VAMboozled!: Why Standardized Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers (and Teacher Education Programs)

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 29, 2015

Huffington Post: Students Call Me the "Technosaurus"

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Alan Singer

December 28, 2015

Shanker Blog: Student Activism is a Healthy Form of Identity Resistance

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Simone Ispa-Landa

December 24, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: On Market Forces & Innovation?

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Bruce D. Baker

December 23, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: No Surprise to Teachers: Study Finds that Helping One or Two Students Can Make Entire Class Better

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Larry Ferlazzo

December 22, 2015

Huffington Post: California Jolt: State Upends How It Funds and Runs Education

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Joan McRobbie

December 21, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Shining a Light into the Charter School Black Box

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Jeff Bryant

December 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #4 of 9): Make Room VAMs for Observations

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 16, 2015

EduShyster: Bad Apples

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December 15, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: What Do We Know About Administrative and Instructional Spending?

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Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “I Gave My Students iPads–Then Wished I Could Take Them Back” (Launa Hall) (by Launa Hall)

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Launa Hall

December 11, 2015

Curmudgucation: NEPC: How Charter$ Ca$h In

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Peter Greene

December 10, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Study Finds Unions Improve Teacher Quality, Lead To Lower Dropout Rates

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Jeff Bryant

December 9, 2015

Yong Zhao: Are American Students Over-tested: Schleicher vs. Schleicher

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Yong Zhao

December 8, 2015

The Answer Sheet: The Disturbing Provisions About Teacher Preparation in No Child Left Behind Rewrite

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Valerie Strauss and Kenneth M. Zeichner

December 7, 2015

Shanker Blog: Who Are (and Should Be) the Teaching Experts (by Bryan Mascio)

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Bryan Mascio

December 3, 2015

Janresseger: Are Low U.S. Scores on International Tests Caused by High Child Poverty or Bad Schools?

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Jan Resseger

December 2, 2015

Curmudgucation: Is the Teacher Shortage Real?

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Peter Greene

December 1, 2015

Huffington Post: The Lost Art of the Segregated Thanksgiving Table

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Alan Singer

November 30, 2015

VAMboozled!: Just Released: National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 25, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: New Study Finds Academic Benefits to Social Emotional Learning

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Larry Ferlazzo

November 24, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Small a Part Research Plays in Making and Implementing Educational Policy

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Larry Cuban

November 23, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: New Study: Hungry Kids Score Lower on Tests. Shocking News?

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Mike Klonsky

November 20, 2015

The Conversation: Why 1904 Testing Methods Should Not Be Used for Today’s Students

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November 19, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Segregation Drives Discipline Disparities in Chicago Schools

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Derek W. Black

November 18, 2015

School Finance 101: From NJ Ed Policy Forum: On Average, Are Children in Newark Doing Better?

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Bruce D. Baker

November 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: Just Released: The American Education Research Association’s (AERA) Statement on VAMs

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 16, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Project to Recognize ‘High Schools of Opportunity’ for All Students Goes National

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

November 13, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Will Competency-Based Learning Rescue the Testocracy?

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Anthony Cody

November 12, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: What Congress Could Do Right Now To Improve Education

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Jeff Bryant

November 11, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Nationwide Study of On-line Charter Schools Reveals Inherent Flaws and Paltry Results: Is This the Beginning of the End

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Derek W. Black

November 10, 2015

Pearson Research & Innovation Network: More Than a Test Score

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Matthew Gaertner

November 9, 2015

Huffington Post: Making Sense of Assessments: State-level NAEP Comparisons Offer Better Policy Guide Than International Assessments

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Elaine Weiss and James Harvey

November 6, 2015

Living in Dialogue: What Sort of Assessment DOES Enhance Learning?

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Anthony Cody

November 5, 2015

The Becoming Radical: The Very Persistent Delusions of Billionaire-Edureformers

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P.L. Thomas

November 4, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: Balancing Portfolios

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Bruce D. Baker

October 30, 2015

Mike Rose: Bringing Technical Expertise into the Public Sphere

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Mike Rose

October 29, 2015

NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent

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Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: New Report: Federal Funds for Charter Schools Go Into a ‘Black Hole’

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Jeff Bryant

October 27, 2015

Yong Zhao: Never Send a Human To Do a Machine’s Job: Top 5 Mistakes in Ed Tech

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Yong Zhao

October 26, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...My Best Posts on New Research Studies in 2015 – Part Two

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Larry Ferlazzo

October 23, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Teacher-Student Relationships and the Achievement Gap

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Derek W. Black

October 22, 2015

Shanker Blog: Student Discipline, Race and Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools

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October 21, 2015

VAMboozled: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #3 of 9): Exploring VAMs’ Potentials

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 20, 2015

United Opt Out: Competency Based Learning, Online Education and Lamar Alexander’s ESEA Revisions

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Morna McDermott

October 19, 2015

Mike Rose’s Blog: Bullets and Grit

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Mike Rose

October 16, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Tools for Change

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Derek W. Black

October 15, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: The Ugly Charter School Scandal Arne Duncan is Leaving Behind

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Jeff Bryant

October 14, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Kindergartens That Prize Play and Academics–In That Order

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Larry Cuban

October 13, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Role of Teacher Diversity in Reducing Implicit Bias

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Burnie Bond

October 12, 2015

Janresseger: New Orleans Model is Not Such a Model After All

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Jan Resseger

October 9, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Duncan’s Legacy: The Cold Take

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Sherman Dorn

October 8, 2015

The Becoming Radical: North Carolina: The Anatomy of How Sham “Research” Becomes Bad Education Policy

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P.L. Thomas

October 7, 2015

The Answer Sheet: ‘Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job:’ Five Big Mistakes in Education Technology and How to Fix Them

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Yong Zhao and Valerie Strauss

October 6, 2015

Teaching/Math/Culture: The Moral Qualities of Teaching

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Ilana Horn

October 5, 2015

EduSanity: “Profiting from Those Least Able to Resist”: On the “Promise” of Charter Schools

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Christian Z. Goering

October 2, 2015

Shanker Blog: Recent Evidence on the New Orleans School Reforms

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Matthew Di Carlo

October 1, 2015

VT Digger: William J. Mathis: Educational Testing and the Elephant in the Room

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William J. Mathis

September 30, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “Lack of Computers in Schools May Be a Blessing”–OECD Report (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

September 29, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: OECD Report: Puzzles To Solve (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

September 29, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: People Don’t Like Current Education Policies, So Why Do Policy Leaders?

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Jeff Bryant

September 28, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Don't Believe the Data in "The Prize"

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Jersey Jazzman

September 24, 2015

Shanker Blog: Social Capital Matters as Much as Human Capital – A Message to Skeptics

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Esther Quintero

September 23, 2015

VAMboozled!: “Efficiency” as a Constitutional Mandate for Texas’s Educational System

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 22, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Report from Chicago: Dyett Hunger Strike Ends Today

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Michelle Gunderson

September 21, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Court Ruling that Charter Schools aren’t ‘Public’ is No Surprise

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Jeff Bryant

September 21, 2015

For the Love of Learning: Turning Around Challenging Classrooms

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Joe Bower

September 21, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: HUNGER STRIKE, DAY 32 -- 70% Fail PARCC Exam. Duncan Calls It ‘Telling the Truth’

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Mike Klonsky

September 18, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Who Is Malala?

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Diane Ravitch

September 18, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Guiding Principles on Teaching, Learning, and Reform

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Larry Cuban

September 18, 2015

EduSanity: I Got To Meet the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans: Here’s the Question I Didn’t Ask Him

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Jason Endacott

September 17, 2015

Curmudgucation: The Public Education Dream

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Peter Greene

September 17, 2015

Teaching/Math/Culture: What I Notice and Wonder About Teaching Like a Champ

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Ilana Horn

September 17, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: From Freddie Gray to Closing Schools, Structural Racism is Revealed in City Policies

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

September 16, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Why I Opted Out of the TFA Alumni Survey

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Gary Rubinstein

September 16, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Destroying Public Schools to "Save" Them

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Jersey Jazzman

September 16, 2015

Janresseger: School Closure: A Tragic Turnaround Strategy

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Jan Resseger

September 15, 2015

The Art of Teaching Science: The Dangerous Path for Georgia Schools Created by the Purdue, Deal and Hames Troika

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Jack Hassard

September 15, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: “Do You Have To Leave Us?”

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Beth Maloney

September 15, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Teachers Work for Free in a School District Bled by Charter Schools

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Jeff Bryant

September 14, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Think it Up: Has the Gates Foundation Turned a Corner?

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Anthony Cody

September 14, 2015

EduShyster: A School I Believe In, a Movement I Don’t (by unnamed author)

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September 14, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Play (Selma Wassermann) (by Selma Wassermann)

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Selma Wassermann and Larry Cuban

September 11, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s "Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy

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Larry Ferlazzo

September 11, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Why a State Supreme Court Struck Down a Charter-School Law

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Sherman Dorn

September 11, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: The Surprising Things New York’s Mayor Said About Common Core and 4-Year-Olds

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Susan Ohanian

September 10, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Who Set the Passing Marks for the Common Core Tests? A Design for Failure

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Diane Ravitch

September 10, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: TFA Tries to Marginalize Critical Alumni Voices

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Gary Rubinstein

September 10, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: A State Supreme Court Finally Gets It Right and Finds Charters Are Not Regular Common Schools

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Derek W. Black

September 9, 2015

The Answer Sheet: What the New SAT Scores Reveal about Modern School Reform

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 9, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Charter Schools in Newark: An Update on the Facts

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Jersey Jazzman

September 8, 2015

Huffington Post: A New Moment in Education

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Linda Darling-Hammond

September 8, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why the Fight for Dyett High School is a Fight for Democracy

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Jeff Bryant

September 8, 2015

Curmudgucation: Cuomo & Emanuel: What Really Matters

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Peter Greene

September 4, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Criminalizing Black Children Begins in Our Schools

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P.L. Thomas

September 4, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Is the College Board Trolling High Schools?

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Sherman Dorn

September 4, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Can Digital Games Improve Our Schools?

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John Thompson

September 3, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Rahm Runs for Cover. Claypool Must Be Having Second Thoughts. Hunger Strikers in D.C.

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Mike Klonsky

September 3, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: John Kasich and Ohio’s Corrupt Charter Industry

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Diane Ravitch

September 2, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: One Burned-out Teacher’s Journey (Kavitha Cardoza)–Part 1 (by Kavitha Cardoza)

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Kavitha Cardoza and Larry Cuban

September 2, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Burned Out Teachers (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

September 2, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: Students Sue to Force NJDOE to Adopt New Graduation Rules

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Susan Ohanian

September 2, 2015

Curmudgucation: 4 Bad Business Practices for Education

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Peter Greene

September 1, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Data Wars in New Orleans

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Jersey Jazzman

September 1, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Jonathan Kozol Explains What’s Wrong with Health Care and Education

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Jeff Bryant

September 1, 2015

EduShyster: Students in New Orleans Speak Out (by New Orleans Youth)

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August 31, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: ACLU Challenges Nevada's School Voucher Program; Is The State's Poor Funding of Public Schools Relevant?

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Derek W. Black

August 31, 2015

VAMboozled!: Two Questions Every Presidential Candidate Needs to Answer about Education

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 31, 2015

10th Period: Why the Delay in Rating Ohio Charter Sponsors?

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Stephen Dyer

August 28, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Rahm to Both Dyett Hunger Strikers and Little Black Pearl: “We Don’t Need No Stink’n Public School in Bronzeville.”

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Mike Klonsky

August 28, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Common Core PR Offensive Rewrites History to Ignore Failures

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Anthony Cody

August 28, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: The Story Behind the Dyett Hunger Strike in Chicago

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Diane Ravitch

August 27, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Ten Years After Katrina: Lessons from Charleston, SC

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P.L. Thomas

August 27, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Gallup Poll Shows Parents Rejecting Standardized Testing

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Gene V Glass

August 27, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: The American Public Understands: Our Schools Are Underfunded

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Jersey Jazzman

August 26, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Right on Banks, Wrong on Schools

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Jeff Bryant

August 26, 2015

Curmudgucation: Dyett High Hunger Strike: Things To Know

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Peter Greene

August 25, 2015

EduShyster: In Chicago, Hunger Striking to Save a School (by Jeanette Taylor-Ramann)

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Jeanette Taylor-Ramann

August 25, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Hurricane Katrina Truths

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Crazy Crawfish

August 25, 2015

Network for Public Education: Teacher Shortage: NY Times Got it Wrong

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Carol C. Burris

August 24, 2015

Janresseger: State School Takeovers Steal Democracy, Ignore Poverty

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Jan Resseger

August 24, 2015

VAMboozled!: New Research Study: Controlling for Student Background Variables Matters

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 24, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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Larry Ferlazzo

August 21, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Another Dirty Little Secret of Test-Based Measures

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Sherman Dorn

August 21, 2015

For the Love of Learning: How Can Parents and Teachers Help Each Other?

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Joe Bower

August 21, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: In Response to the Katrina Model of ‘Reform’

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Mike Klonsky

August 20, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: School "Turnaround": A Fool's Errand

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Jersey Jazzman

August 20, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: New Research: Vouchers — Schools Do the Choosing

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

August 20, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Policy Influences Practice But Does Practice Influence Policy?

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Larry Cuban

August 19, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Next Steps for Test Reform Activists on ESEA Reauthorization

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Monty Neill

August 19, 2015

Curmudgucation: What Failing Schools?

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Peter Greene

August 19, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Twenty Percent of New York's Students Opted Out of Testing: Why It Matters So Much

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Derek W. Black

August 18, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Questioning RIF Realities in AZ: Professional Capital Part I

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Amethyst Hinton Sainz

August 18, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Why I Am No Longer a Measurement Specialist

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Gene V Glass

August 17, 2015

EduShyster: You’re Fired!

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August 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: NY Teacher Lederman’s Day in Court

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 17, 2015

For the Love of Learning: Rethinking School Leadership

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Joe Bower

August 17, 2015

Janresseger: Residential Concentration of Poverty (and Wealth) and the Impact on Public Schools

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Jan Resseger

August 14, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: North Carolina Business Leader: Critics of Reform Are Wrong

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Diane Ravitch

August 14, 2015

School Finance 101: Education’s Merchant of Doubt & The Plight of State School Finance Systems

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Bruce D. Baker

August 14, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Here Again: The Old Chestnut about Technology Increasing Student Achievement

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Larry Cuban

August 13, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie

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Jeff Bryant

August 13, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Beware the Roadbuilders Redux: Education Reform Wars Fail Race, Again

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P.L. Thomas

August 13, 2015

Curmudgucation: LA Charter Onslaught

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Peter Greene

August 12, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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Larry Ferlazzo

August 12, 2015

Living in Dialogue: What Can We Learn from a Debate Over Pizza Parties in School?

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John Thompson

August 12, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: “Slave” Market Education Reform in NOLA? #NOLAEdWarning

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

August 11, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Embarrassingly Bad Reformy Metaphors: Charter Schools & Uber

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Jersey Jazzman

August 11, 2015

EduSanity: Published: Teachers Views of the Common Core State Standards and its Implementation

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Christian Z. Goering

August 11, 2015

The Answer Sheet: A Critical Look at the Annual High School Rankings by U.S. News

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

August 10, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Are These Really the Best High Schools in the Country?

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

August 10, 2015

10th Period: Price of Ohio House Sitting on Charter Reform? Max Donation from Nation's Largest For-Profit School

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Stephen Dyer

August 10, 2015

Janresseger: Reading, Pennsylvania: A Microcosm of Today’s Savage Inequalities

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Jan Resseger

August 7, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why Chris Christie Hates Teachers

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Jeff Bryant

August 7, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Why 'Grit' Will Never Be the Key to Overcoming Poverty and Racism

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P.L. Thomas

August 6, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: North Carolina Wages War Against Public Education

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Diane Ravitch

August 6, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Magic of Multiple Measures (by Cara Jackson)

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Cara Jackson

August 6, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Difficult Fact: Public Schools Are Political Institutions

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Larry Cuban

August 5, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Sounds Weird: PISA To Measure Student Ability To Collaborate By Pairing Them Up Anonymously Online

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Larry Ferlazzo

August 5, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: There and Back Again

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Donnie Dicus

August 5, 2015

Curmudgucation: NC Education of Tomorrow

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Peter Greene

August 4, 2015

VAMboozled!: EVAAS, Value-Added, and Teacher Branding

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 4, 2015

EduShyster: Big Easy, Hot Mess

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August 4, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Teach For America Counter-narratives: Two Alumni Books Reframe the Discourse

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August 3, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: It's Down to Five People

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Derek W. Black

August 3, 2015

Janresseger: William Lager, Charter Czar, Makes the Drop to Ensure Lack of Regulation of Ohio Charters

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Jan Resseger

August 3, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: Common Core and Close Reading: Shouldn’t College Work Stay in College?

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Susan Ohanian

July 31, 2015

Gary Rubenstein’s Blog: The Underachievement School District 2015 Edition Part I

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Gary Rubinstein

July 31, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: We Won’t Get Great Teachers By Treating Them Badly

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July 31, 2015

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July 30, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: High School Students in Colorado Opt Out of State Testing in Large Numbers

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July 30, 2015

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July 30, 2015

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July 29, 2015

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July 29, 2015

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July 29, 2015

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July 28, 2015

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July 28, 2015

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July 28, 2015

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July 27, 2015

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July 27, 2015

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July 27, 2015

Gary Rubenstein’s Blog: TFA Endorses Murphy’s Law

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July 24, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Charter Cheerleaders Can't Be Referees

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July 24, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Get Ready for the Next Wave of Education “Reform”

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July 24, 2015

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July 23, 2015

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July 23, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Teacher: Beware EngageNY Curriculum: It’s No Good!

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July 23, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Rebecca’s Letter to New #TeachForAmerica Recruits #NN15

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July 22, 2015

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July 22, 2015

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July 22, 2015

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July 21, 2015

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July 21, 2015

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July 21, 2015

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July 20, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Check Missionary Zeal Among All Education Advocates

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July 20, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why Arne Duncan Has Been a Monumental Flop as Education Secretary

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July 20, 2015

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July 17, 2015

The Conversation: The Business of Rankings: Did the US News & World Report Make Substantial Mistakes?

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July 17, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Senate Passes Bill to Reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Roll Back the Policies of No Child Left Behind

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July 17, 2015

The Answer Sheet: How Three Schools Challenge Their Diverse Student Populations

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July 16, 2015

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July 16, 2015

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July 16, 2015

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July 15, 2015

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July 15, 2015

VAMboozled!: It’s a VAM Shame...

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July 15, 2015

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July 14, 2015

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July 14, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Why U-Ark's Charter School Philanthropy Study is Just Wrong

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July 14, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Duncan's Legacy

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July 13, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: State Governments Continue an Assault on Public Schools

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July 13, 2015

The Becoming Radical: On Public Versus Charter: “The Dispute Has Actually Nothing to Do with Education”

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July 13, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: With Watered Down Analysis, Eleventh Circuit Holds Florida Can Evaluate Teachers Based on Their Students' Scores in Someone Else's Course

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July 10, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: TFA Continues to Set New Corps Members Up for Failure

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July 10, 2015

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July 10, 2015

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July 9, 2015

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July 9, 2015

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July 9, 2015

Shanker Blog: Measuring The Success of Informal STEM Programs for Girls

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July 8, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Report: More than $200 Million in Charter School Waste, Fraud, and Mismanagement is “Tip of the Iceberg”

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July 8, 2015

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July 8, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Firing Black, Experienced Teachers In Camden (and Elsewhere)

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July 7, 2015

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July 7, 2015

Huffington Post: Big News or Flawed Research? The New Special Education Controversy

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July 7, 2015

Janresseger: New Illinois Analysis: Chicago School District Financial Crisis: What Does It Mean?

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July 6, 2015

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July 6, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: The Disturbing Forces Behind a School “Reform” Fight in Colorado

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July 6, 2015

The Becoming Radical: From “Remediation” to “No Excuses”: The Indignity of Deficit Thinking

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July 3, 2015

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July 3, 2015

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July 2, 2015

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July 2, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Colorado Voucher Program Declared Unconstitutional

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July 2, 2015

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July 1, 2015

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July 1, 2015

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July 1, 2015

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June 30, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NAEP Will Collect Data on Grit and Other Unquantifiable Traits

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June 30, 2015

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June 30, 2015

Janresseger: New Illinois Analysis: Test Scores Correlate with School’s Economic Level, Not School’s Quality

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June 29, 2015

VAMboozled!: Splits, Rotations, and Other Consequences of Teaching in a High-Stakes Environment in an Urban School

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June 29, 2015

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June 29, 2015

School Finance 101: The Collapse of State School Finance Systems & Why It Matters

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June 26, 2015

Shanker Blog: New Policy Brief: The Evidence on the Florida Education Reform Formula

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June 26, 2015

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June 26, 2015

10th Period: Ohio Senate Proposes Dictatorship in Youngstown

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June 25, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Questions Persist About New Orleans Test Score Gains

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June 25, 2015

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June 25, 2015

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June 24, 2015

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June 24, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Who is Grading Common Core Tests? It is Worse Than You Thought

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June 24, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Class Size: The Common Sense Bus Doesn't Stop on School Reform Blvd.

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June 23, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Cerf's Up in Newark, and That Means More of the Same for its Schools

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June 23, 2015

EduShyster: Black Leaders (and Teachers) Matter

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June 23, 2015

Janresseger: Common Cause Takes on Wealthy NY School Privatizers and ALEC

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Jan Resseger

June 22, 2015

Yong Zhao: Lessons that Matter: What Should We Learn from Asia’s School Systems?

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June 22, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: English Class in Common Core Era: 'Tom Sawyer' and Court Opinions

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June 22, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Civil Rights Groups Caution Against Watering Down the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

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June 19, 2015

The Answer Sheet: How One School Changed its Academic Culture

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June 19, 2015

Curmudgucation: Summer Opportunity

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June 19, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: What Happens When Kids Go Cold Turkey from Their Screens for 5 Days? (by Yalda Uhls)

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June 18, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Calls Mount for a National Moratorium on Charter Schools

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June 18, 2015

For the Love of Learning: Teacher Leadership

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June 18, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: 800 Years After Magna Carta, Chicago Schools are Still Ruled by an Autocrat

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June 17, 2015

UC Davis Center for Poverty Research: Safety Linked to Reduced Truancy in High-Poverty Schools

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June 17, 2015

Philip McRae, Ph.D.: MYTH: Blended Learning is the Next Ed Tech Revolution - Hype, Harm and Hope

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Phil McRae

June 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: NY’s Board of Regents Voted Today (11:6) in Favor of the State’s New Teacher Evaluation System

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 16, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Ohio Charter Schools: A National Laughing Stock

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June 16, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: What’s Next at TFA? So Maybe We’ll Back Down a Smidgen

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June 16, 2015

Shanker Blog: Starting Closest To Home: The Importance of Developing Teachers’ Understanding of the Social Contexts of Their Classrooms (by John Lane)

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June 15, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Student Privacy and Social Infrastructure

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June 15, 2015

The Answer Sheet: A Rare ‘Defy the Odds’ School Where Learning Isn’t Driven by High-Stakes Tests

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June 15, 2015

Curmudgucation: Can We Do Better Than Access?

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Peter Greene

June 12, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Education Policy Descends into a Sad Proxy Battle

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June 12, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Dilemma of Fast, Cheap, and Good: You Can Only Pick Two

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June 12, 2015

EduShyster: In the Future, All the Seats Will Be High Performing

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June 11, 2015

The Becoming Radical: High-Stakes, Standardized Tests Are “Master’s Tools,” Not Tools for Social Justice

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June 10, 2015

Janresseger: Reduce Poverty and Ensure Equity: The Key to Education Reform Is Not the Common Core

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June 10, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: New National Funding Fairness Report: Education Budgets Have Not Been Replenished Post-Recession

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June 10, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Action Alert: We Need to Debate @TeachForAmerica and Special Education

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June 9, 2015

Sam Chaltain: Big Bird Can Close the Achievement Gap? Not So Fast...

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June 9, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: The Best Articles & Posts on Education Policy in 2015 – So Far

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June 9, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Gene V. Glass: Education Reformers and the “Shoe Button Complex”

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June 8, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: "Partially Ineffective" and "Ineffective" Are NOT the Same Teacher Rating

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June 8, 2015

For the Love of Learning: MYTH: You Can Do More With Less (by Pasi Sahlberg)

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June 8, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Dumb Arguments about the Common Core Distract from What Matters Most

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June 5, 2015

VAMboozled!: Breaking News: New York’s Sheri Lederman is to Have Her Day in Court

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

June 5, 2015

Living in Dialogue: The War of Attrition Over Public Schools

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June 5, 2015

The Becoming Radical: The Real American Success Story

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June 4, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: The Setting of the Moon: Tom Luna's Short Time on Stage

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June 4, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: High Performing Minority Districts: An Anomaly?

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Larry Cuban

June 4, 2015

Curmudgucation: Stop “Defending” Music

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June 3, 2015

Edushyster: The Education of EduShyster (a Comedy)

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June 3, 2015

10th Period: Only in Ohio is Charter Authorizer Transparency Controversial

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Stephen Dyer

June 3, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Is School Improvement a Myth? (by Aurora Moore)

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June 2, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Follow the Yellow Brick Load

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June 2, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Bob Braun to Star-Ledger: Stop Defaming Teachers!

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Diane Ravitch

June 2, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: SPEDGate: How the Louisiana Department of Education is Misappropriating Millions of Dollars a Year from their Federal Special Education Funding for Cronies and Political Favors

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June 1, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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June 1, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Standardized Tests: Symptoms, Not Causes

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May 29, 2015

Janresseger: Big Money Politics Distorts Public Education Policy

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Jan Resseger

May 29, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Education Makes The Progressive Punchlist

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Jeff Bryant

May 29, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: From Superhero Teacher to Bad Teacher: Hollywood Films Then and Now

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May 28, 2015

VAMboozled!: New Mexico Teachers Burn Their State-Based Teacher Evaluations

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 28, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: A Little Piece of the Opt Out Movement

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May 28, 2015

The Answer Sheet: How One Majority-Minority School Fosters a College-Going Culture

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May 27, 2015

EduShyster: “Maybe I’m a Bad Kid” (by Steven Thomas)

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May 27, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Parent Trigger Testimony: A One-Way Street to Private Control #SB14

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May 27, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: I’ll Huffman and I’ll Puffman and I’ll Blow Your District Down

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May 26, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Education Law Center Demands Secretary Duncan Reject New Jersey's ESEA Waiver Renewal

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May 26, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Beware Grade-Level Reading and the Cult of Proficiency

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May 26, 2015

Curmudgucation: Jebster on Education

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May 22, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Transparency & Accountability? Not For Charter Schools

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May 22, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Charter Schools Won’t Solve Racial Injustice in Baltimore

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Jeff Bryant

May 22, 2015

Sherman Dorn: William Torrey Harris Warned Against “Hothouse” Education in the 19th Century, and the New York Times Is on It!

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May 21, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Crony Capitalism Beats the Free Market Again

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May 21, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Accountability: The Crushing Weight of It All

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May 21, 2015

VAMboozled!: Teacher Won’t be Bullied by Alhambra (AZ) School Officials

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 20, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Does High-Stakes Testing & Accountability = Social Justice & Civil Rights?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 20, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Teachers of the Year: Family Stress and Poverty Are Biggest Obstacles to Classroom Success

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May 20, 2015

School Finance 101: Thoughts on School Funding & Baltimore

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May 19, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: You Reeka Math

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May 19, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Purpose and Potential Impact of the Common Core

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May 19, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Insider Tells a Florida Charter Schools Story

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May 18, 2015

10th Period: Ohio's Charter Schools Just Don't Work, Part V. But Can They?

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May 18, 2015

Janresseger: Personal Grit Won’t Do It; We Must Address Structural Inequality

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Jan Resseger

May 18, 2015

Curmudgucation: Honesty: The Hot New Gap (With Anti-CCSS Bonus)

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Peter Greene

May 15, 2015

Sam Chaltain: To Reimagine Education, We Must Make Ourselves the Target

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May 15, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: In Praise of Particularity: A Manifesto

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May 14, 2015

Living in Dialogue: The Strangely Incurious Bill Gates

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May 14, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Want Creativity? Scrap the Tests

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May 14, 2015

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May 13, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Action Alert: @TeachForAmerica Wants to Blow into Santa Ana

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 13, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: High School Student Use of Computers: A Survey

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May 13, 2015

EduSanity: Is the Illusion of Equity a Civil Right?

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May 12, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NEPC: Shock Treatment Doesn’t Work for Schools

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Diane Ravitch

May 12, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: The KIPP Propaganda Machine and Its Willing Saps in the Media

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Jersey Jazzman

May 12, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Public Schools Provide Market Pressure for Charter, Private Schools to Improve

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P.L. Thomas

May 11, 2015

Yong Zhao: The Dawn of a New Era: China’s College Entrance Exam Transformation

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May 11, 2015

The Art of Teaching Science: Questioning Tennessee’s “Opportunity School District”: A Heads up for Georgia’s Take Over Plan?

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May 11, 2015

Janresseger: Segregation, Inequality, Concentrated Poverty: How We Got Here

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Jan Resseger

May 8, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Deist School Reform and Teacher Evaluations

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May 8, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Charter School Fraud in Arizona: Just a Way of Doing Business

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May 8, 2015

Curmudgucation: Tests and Threats

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May 7, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Education Reformers Lost in the Woods Should Pause, Listen and Learn

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John Thompson

May 7, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Schools of Opportunity: The Inaugural Winners

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May 7, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Charter School Love

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May 6, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: What are the School Implications of New Chetty Study on Geographical Mobility?

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May 6, 2015

EduShyster: A Better Conversation?

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May 6, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: An Alternative to Failed Education ‘Reform,’ If We Want One

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May 5, 2015

VAMboozled!: My Book on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 5, 2015

Sam Chaltain: Ghosts in the (Testing) Machine

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May 5, 2015

School Finance 101: Five Steps to Cagebusting Relinquishment and the Suburban School District of the Future!

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May 4, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: One Newark: "Choosing" Segregated Schools?

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May 4, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Why the Movement to Opt Out of Common Core Tests is a Big Deal

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Carol C. Burris

May 4, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: The Final, Best Cut of Yong Zhao’s Great and Funny Speech at NPE

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May 1, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: How YouTube, Big Data and Big Brands Mean Trouble for Kids and Parents

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May 1, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A History Class Using Bring-Your-Own-Devices (BYOD)

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May 1, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A History Class Using BYOD (Part 2)

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May 1, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Marc Tucker and the Declension Myth in American Education Debates

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April 30, 2015

EduShyster: Holy State Takeover!

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April 29, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: The Cycle of Mistrust

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April 29, 2015

Curmudgucation: WSJ: Fordham’s Four Kinds of Wrong

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April 28, 2015

Deborah Meier on Education: Progressive Education (by Nicholas Meier)

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April 28, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Will San Francisco Cancel TFA?: Alum Letter to Board Details Threats, Depression, and Debt

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April 28, 2015

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April 27, 2015

For the Love of Learning: From Detesting to De-Testing

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April 27, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Atlanta’s School Teachers Aren’t Alone in Their Attempts to Cheat

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April 27, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Persistence of School and Residential Segregation

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April 24, 2015

VAMboozled!: Playing Fair: Factors that Influence VAM for Special Education Teachers (by Umari Osgood)

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April 24, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: How the Pending ESEA Bill Could Move Funding Equity Backward

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Derek W. Black

April 24, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Can the Tennessee Achievement School District Move Beyond the Silver Bullets?

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John Thompson

April 23, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Two Long Island Superintendents Explain the Reasons for the Opt Out Movement

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Diane Ravitch

April 23, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Crawfish are Real and So are the Problems with Common Core

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April 23, 2015

Janresseger: School Choice Versus a Public System of Education: The Big Picture

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Jan Resseger

April 22, 2015

Curmudgucation: Duncan’s Regrets

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Peter Greene

April 22, 2015

School Finance 101: Worry Not Innumerati-A Whole Bunch of High Income Families Already Opted Out Before the School Year Started!

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Bruce D. Baker

April 22, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Education Needs a Collaboration (Non-Competitive) Pact

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P.L. Thomas

April 21, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: Very Interesting Online “Game” for Teachers, Principals & Parents

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Larry Ferlazzo

April 21, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Is a Worthy Revision of NCLB Really Possible?

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Jeff Bryant

April 21, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Politicians Tell Educators, “Shut Up! You Have No Freedom of Speech.”

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Gene V Glass

April 20, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Educators Alarmed by Some Questions on N.Y. Common Core Tests

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April 20, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Black and Brown: Allies or Foes in Education Policy? #AERA15 #AERAPres

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

April 20, 2015

Shanker Blog: Is the Social Side of Education Touchy Feely?

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Esther Quintero

April 17, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Real Crisis in Education: “Reformers” Refuse to Learn

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John Thompson

April 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 17, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: Here's Why Opting Out Doesn't Solve the Real Problem

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Susan Ohanian

April 16, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: LDOE’s Graduation and College Enrollment Statistics in Context

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April 16, 2015

School Finance 101: Relinquishing Efficiency: NOLA Data Snapshots

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Bruce D. Baker

April 16, 2015

Deborah Meier on Education: More Books: Bloodletting, Citizen, Wow, and More than a Score

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Deborah Meier

April 15, 2015

Janresseger: Atlanta Sentencing Trial: Whose Truth is Really the Truth?

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Jan Resseger

April 15, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: David Berliner's Views on the Teaching Profession

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Gene V Glass

April 15, 2015

Hechinger Report: As Testing Begins, Parental Opposition to Common Core Ramps Up

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Carol C. Burris

April 14, 2015

Curmudgucation: Senate ESEA Rewrite: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Peter Greene

April 14, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Police Officers and Teachers: Confronting Corrupt Cultures, Avoiding “Bad Police/Teacher” Narratives

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P.L. Thomas

April 14, 2015

Shanker Blog: Teacher Turnover At Success Academy Charter Schools

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Matthew Di Carlo

April 13, 2015

EduSanity: A Month of Opting Out of Standardized Tests: DAY 20! The PARCC is Over!

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Jason Endacott

April 13, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why Populist Progressives Must Embrace the Education Spring

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Jeff Bryant

April 13, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Achievement Gap or Opportunity Gap?

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Mike Klonsky

April 10, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Charter Schools, Politics, and Democracy (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 10, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Charter Schools, Politics, and Democracy (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

April 10, 2015

VAMboozled!: The Silencing of the Educators: A Shocking Idea, and Trending

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 9, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Economist Casually Insults New York's Principals

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Jersey Jazzman

April 9, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Let’s Remember the Big Picture...

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April 9, 2015

EduShyster: Burning the Village to Save It

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April 8, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Senate Committee Reaches Agreement on New ESEA

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Diane Ravitch

April 8, 2015

Yong Zhao: A World at Risk: An Imperative for a Paradigm Shift to Cultivate 21st Century Learners[1]

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Yong Zhao

April 8, 2015

Janresseger: Misery and Behaviorism Shape Climate at New York’s Success Academy Charters

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Jan Resseger

April 7, 2015

Shanker Blog: Charter Schools, Special Education Students, and Test-Based Accountability

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Matthew Di Carlo

April 7, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Resistance to Standardized Testing Not Going Away

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Jeff Bryant

April 7, 2015

The Becoming Radical: From “Bad” Teachers to Teachers as Cheaters: The Burden of the Impossible

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P.L. Thomas

April 6, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Hocus Pocus History of High Stakes Tests

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John Thompson

April 6, 2015

For the Love of Learning: Making School Worse, Faster

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Joe Bower

April 6, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Taking the Fall for Duncan’s Testing Madness

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Mike Klonsky

April 3, 2015

Curmudgucation: Equity for Some

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Peter Greene

April 3, 2015

The Answer Sheet: What the ‘Thoughtless’ N.Y. Government Just Did to Teachers

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April 3, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Choosing Reform-Minded Urban Superintendents

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Larry Cuban

April 2, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Eleven Atlanta Public School Defendants Convicted of Racketeering in Standardized Test Cheating Trial

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Derek W. Black

April 2, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Open Letters to Reformers I DON’T Know. Part IV: Arne Duncan

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Gary Rubinstein

April 2, 2015

EduSanity: A Month of Opting Out of Standardized Tests: Day 12

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Jason Endacott

April 1, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: National Education Policy Center Switches Sides! Betrayal!

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Diane Ravitch

April 1, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Bad Reporting About Education is Harming Schools and Students

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Jeff Bryant

April 1, 2015

Janresseger: New Orleans Research Shows Competition Does Not Necessarily Improve Schools

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Jan Resseger

March 31, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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March 31, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: MUST READ: Revelations of a Disillusioned Reformer

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Diane Ravitch

March 30, 2015

Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail

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March 30, 2015

VAMboozled!: New York Times Article on “Grading Teachers by the Test”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 30, 2015

Shanker Blog: Lessons and Directions from the CREDO Urban Charter School Study

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 27, 2015

EduShyster: Students Say the Darndest Things

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March 27, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Some Thoughts about Change, Innovation, and Watching Paint Dry

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Larry Cuban

March 27, 2015

Curmudgucation: Embrace the Core

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Peter Greene

March 26, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Once Again, It's the Poverty, Not the Stupid

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Jersey Jazzman

March 26, 2015

EduSanity: A Month of Opting Out of Standardized Tests: Day 10

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Jason Endacott

March 26, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Are Charter Schools Finally Outperforming Traditional Public Schools?

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Derek W. Black

March 25, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: How We End the War Over Standardized Testing

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Jeff Bryant

March 25, 2015

The Becoming Radical: If You Don’t Think, Why Should I Listen?

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P.L. Thomas

March 25, 2015

Teacher Under Construction: For My Fellow Future Teachers

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Stephanie Rivera

March 24, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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Larry Ferlazzo

March 24, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Defies Measurement is Finally Complete

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Crazy Crawfish

March 24, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Big Story About Gender Gaps in Test Scores

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 23, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Carry Your Part or Get Out of the Way!

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Donnie Dicus

March 23, 2015

10th Period: State Defines “High Performing" Charters

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Stephen Dyer

March 23, 2015

Janresseger: Ohio House Avoids — So Far — Serious Attempt to Regulate Charter Schools

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Jan Resseger

March 20, 2015

Curmudgucation: Yelp for Teachers?

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Peter Greene

March 20, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Are Charter Schools and Unequal Funding Formulas the Conspiracy of the Rich?

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Derek W. Black

March 20, 2015

VAMboozled!: NY Congressman’s Letter to Duncan on Behalf of NY Teacher Lederman

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 19, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: The ‘Thom Tillis Rule’ for Health Policy Won’t Work for Education Either

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Jeff Bryant

March 19, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: The Smarter Balanced Common Core Mathematics Tests Are Fatally Flawed and Should Not Be Used

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Susan Ohanian

March 19, 2015

The Becoming Radical: To Catch a Cheat: More on the Pearson Problem as Our Problem

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P.L. Thomas

March 18, 2015

The Art of Teaching Science: The Georgia House Should “Pink Slip” the Opportunity School District

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Jack Hassard

March 18, 2015

EduSanity: A Month of Opting Out of Standardized Tests: Day 8

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Jason Endacott

March 18, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Is the PARCC Really Worth All This Bother?

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Jersey Jazzman

March 17, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Smoke and the Fire from Evaluations of Teach For America

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 17, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Where are the Teacher Voices?

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John Spencer

March 17, 2015

Living in Dialogue: High Stakes Testing Makes Surveillance Necessary

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Anthony Cody

March 16, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Can the "Opt Out" Movement Succeed?

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Gene V Glass

March 16, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Different Worlds of Policymakers and Teachers

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Larry Cuban

March 16, 2015

Curmudgucation: Raj Chetty for Dummies

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Peter Greene

March 13, 2015

EduShyster: Let Them Eat Charters

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March 13, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: How We End the War Over Standardized Testing

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Jeff Bryant

March 13, 2015

Sam Chaltain: New PBS Documentary Tells a Story About Education We Don’t Ever Hear

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Sam Chaltain

March 12, 2015

VAMboozled: New Mexico’s Teacher Evaluation Lawsuit: Four Teachers’ Individual Cases

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 11, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Good Intentions, Political Realities, Privileged Cluelessness: On Education Reform and Poverty

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P.L. Thomas

March 11, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Do You Have Five Minutes to Understand Whether @TeachForAmerica is Effective?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

March 11, 2015

Janresseger: Why Do So Few College Students Want to Be Teachers?

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Jan Resseger

March 10, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: The Difference Between Learning and Living Integration

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Derek W. Black

March 10, 2015

EduSanity: A Month of Opting Out of Standardized Tests: Day 2

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Jason Endacott

March 10, 2015

Living in Dialogue: The 47% Solution: Playing Musical Chairs with Our Children’s Futures

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Anthony Cody

March 9, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Different Ways to Think About the “Florida Package”

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Sherman Dorn

March 9, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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Larry Ferlazzo

March 9, 2015

The Art of Teaching Science: Beware of Senate Resolution 287: The Opportunity to Take Over Public Schools

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Jack Hassard

March 6, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Status Fallacy: New York State Edition

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 6, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?

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Jersey Jazzman

March 6, 2015

EduShyster: What Happened to Rahm? (by Maria Moser)

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Maria Moser

March 5, 2015

Curmudgucation: Your Granular Achievement Report

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Peter Greene

March 5, 2015

Sam Chaltain: How Can We Ensure Better Teacher Quality?

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Sam Chaltain

March 5, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Dear NYT, Better Teachers? How About Better Journalism?

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P.L. Thomas

March 4, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: What Would You Say to @TeachForAmerica Recruiting Letter?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

March 4, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Management by Pinheads

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Gene V Glass

March 4, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Open Letter to Reformers I DON’T Know. Part III: Amorphous TFA Blob

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Gary Rubinstein

March 3, 2015

School Finance 101: On School Finance Equity & Money Matters: A Primer

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Bruce D. Baker

March 3, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Baloney

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

March 2, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Questioning Mainstream Wisdom about Schools and the Economy

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Larry Cuban

March 2, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Dumb and Dumber in the Republican House Education Bill

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Jeff Bryant

February 27, 2015

For the Love of Learning: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools Recognized as Outstanding Academic Title

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Joe Bower

February 27, 2015

Janresseger: A Musical Performance: Collaborative Learning, Authentic Assessment, Opportunity to Learn

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Jan Resseger

February 26, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Chris Christie’s Bizarro World

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Jersey Jazzman

February 26, 2015

Shanker Blog: Actual Growth Measures Make a Big Difference When Measuring Growth

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Matthew Di Carlo

February 26, 2015

Huffington Post: The Elephant in the School Failure Debate

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Joan McRobbie

February 25, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: The Constitutional Challenge to Teacher Tenure

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Derek W. Black

February 25, 2015

EduShyster: The Great Equity Test

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February 25, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NEPC: Separating Fact and Fiction About Charter Schools

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Diane Ravitch

February 24, 2015

Curmudgucation: Adaptive Students and Adaptive Tests

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Peter Greene

February 24, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Overwhelming Majority of Families of 143,000 Students ‘Trapped’ in “Failing’ Schools Would Recommend Their School to Others

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Gary Rubinstein

February 24, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal: ‘There Comes a Time When Rules Must Be Broken...That Time is Now.’

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 23, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Memo To Civil Rights Activists: Testing Isn’t Helping

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Jeff Bryant

February 23, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Doug Christensen on ESEA: Time for the Voices of Educators, Parents and Students to be Heard

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Anthony Cody

February 20, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: I Can See Clearly Now

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Eve Rifkin

February 20, 2015

Janresseger: Congress Debates NCLB Reauthorization; Lucid Policy Memo Clarifies Concerns

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Jan Resseger

February 19, 2015

For the Love of Learning: Without Democracy, Our Economy Will Destroy Public Education

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Joe Bower

February 19, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: PARCC Cheerleaders: Snide, Dismissive, & Wrong

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Jersey Jazzman

February 19, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Debate and Evidence on the Impact of NCLB

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Matthew Di Carlo

February 18, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Is There a Middle Ground in ESEA Reauthorization That Serves Both Sides' Interests?

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Derek W. Black

February 18, 2015

The Art of Teaching Science: Georgia Governor’s Dangerous Plan to Takeover “Chronically Failing” Public Schools is a Bad Deal

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Jack Hassard

February 18, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NEPC: The Failure of Test-Based Accountability

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Diane Ravitch

February 17, 2015

Curmudgucation: The Very Best Policy Memo on Testing

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Peter Greene

February 17, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy Issues

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Larry Ferlazzo

February 17, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Arizona Has No Concept of a "Conflict of Interest"

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Gene V Glass

February 16, 2015

The Answer Sheet: More Than 500 Researchers Sign NCLB Letter to Congress: Stop Test-Focused Reforms

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Valerie Strauss

February 16, 2015

The Answer Sheet: No Child Left Behind’s Test-Based Policies Failed. Will Congress Keep Them Anyway?

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and William J. Mathis

February 16, 2015

VAMboozled: Your Voices Were (At Least) Heard: Federal Plans for College of Education Value-Added

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 13, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: New Report Finds That New York City Charters Not Following Law in Discipline

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Derek W. Black

February 13, 2015

The Becoming Radical: What are Evidence-Based Practices and Policies in Education?

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P.L. Thomas

February 13, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why Democrats Must Categorically Reject Bobby Jindal’s Education Plan

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Jeff Bryant

February 13, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: The Purpose of Education

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Mike Klonsky

February 12, 2015

VAMboozled: Educator Evaluations (and the Use of VAM) Unlikely to be Mandated in Reauthorization of ESEA (by Kimberly Kappler Hewitt)

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Kimberly Kappler Hewitt and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 12, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: A MUST-READ: Stephanie Simon in Politico: A Blockbuster Report on Pearson’s Money Machine

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Diane Ravitch

February 11, 2015

Sam Chaltain: A Public Charter School is Trying to Model Itself After a Private School: Is That a Good Thing?

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Sam Chaltain

February 11, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Mind Like a Civ(ics Test)?

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Amethyst Hinton Sainz

February 11, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: Burden of Reformy Proof

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Jersey Jazzman

February 10, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: Finding the Keys to School Funding in Your Pocket

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

February 10, 2015

Janresseger: Public Education: Have We Lost Our Bearings?

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Jan Resseger

February 10, 2015

Curmudgucation: Sampling the PARCC

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Peter Greene

February 9, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: The Recovery School District Is Ripping Off America

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Crazy Crawfish

February 9, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Leaning Think Tanks or (More) Flawed Education Journalism?

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P.L. Thomas

February 9, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Children and High-Tech Addiction: A Look Beyond the U.S.

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Larry Cuban

February 6, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Is This the End of Education Austerity?

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Jeff Bryant

February 6, 2015

School Finance 101: The Cost of Stupid: Families for Excellent Schools Totally Bogus Analysis of NYC Schools

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Bruce D. Baker

February 6, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal: What I’ve Learned About Annual Standardized Testing

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 5, 2015

EduShyster: Parents Я Dumb

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February 5, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Leonard Waks Explains How Most Education Reformers Operate

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Gene V Glass

February 5, 2015

Sam Chaltain: In Reimagining School, What Must We Hold Onto – & What Must We Let Go Of?

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Sam Chaltain

February 4, 2015

At the Chalk Face: A Slow and Much Needed Goodbye to the Education Reform Opposition

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Shaun Johnson

February 4, 2015

10th Period: Stanford Study: U.S. Has Smallest Achievement Gap of Any Similar Country

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Stephen Dyer

February 4, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: ESA Program: Perhaps There’s Too Much Fog...

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Christine Marsh

February 3, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Teacher Education to USDOE: “Let Us Ruin Our Own Discipline!”

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P.L. Thomas

February 3, 2015

Shanker Blog: The Persistent Misidentification of “Low Performing Schools”

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Matthew Di Carlo

February 3, 2015

Janresseger: Inequality Drives School Achievement Levels. Does Inequality Also Drive Education Policy?

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Jan Resseger

February 2, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Open Letters To Reformers I DON’T Know. Part II: Bill Gates

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Gary Rubinstein

February 2, 2015

Deborah Meier on Education: Hands Behind Your Back

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Deborah Meier

February 2, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: From Policy to Practice: Chains or Pasta

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Larry Cuban

January 30, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Background on the High Stakes Testing Opt Out Movement in Louisiana

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Crazy Crawfish

January 30, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Senator Warren Clarifies the Money Matter in Revising NCLB

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Jeff Bryant

January 30, 2015

For the Love of Learning: A Teacher Who Quit is Used to Show That Teachers Stay

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Joe Bower

January 29, 2015

EduSanity: Will the Left Wake Up to Charter Realities?

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Christian Z. Goering

January 29, 2015

Curmudgucation: Congress and Your Homework

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Peter Greene

January 29, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: Boy, Bill Gates’ Latest Interview was Very Depressing…

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Larry Ferlazzo

January 28, 2015

School Finance 101: More Money, More Money, More Money? Have We Really Ever Tried Sustained, Targeted School Funding for America’s Neediest Children?

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Bruce D. Baker

January 28, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: ESA Program: Who Does it Empower?

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Jess Ledbetter

January 28, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Don’t Buy School Choice Week

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P.L. Thomas

January 27, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: More Push-Back on PARCC Common Core Testing

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Mike Klonsky

January 27, 2015

Cloaking Inequity: EdMonth Storified: This is What Happens When You Debate @TeachForAmerica

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

January 27, 2015

Janresseger: No Child Left Behind Has Not Worked. Why?

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Jan Resseger

January 26, 2015

Susan Ohanian.org: L.I. Teacher Refuses to Administer Common Core Tests, Urges Others to Join Her

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Susan Ohanian

January 26, 2015

Deborah Meier on Education: The End of the Rainbow

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Deborah Meier

January 26, 2015

10th Period: Ohio Auditor: Charters Have Far Fewer Students Than State Pays Them to Educate

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Stephen Dyer

January 23, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Future Shock: Bill and Melinda Gates Enlist “Global Citizens” to Support Agenda

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Anthony Cody

January 23, 2015

Shanker Blog: Update on Teacher Turnover in the U.S.

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Matthew Di Carlo

January 23, 2015

Curmudgucation: Good vs. Uniform

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Peter Greene

January 22, 2015

VAMboozled: Is Combining Different Tests to Measure Value-Added Valid?

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 22, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: Office Civil Rights in Position to Make Equal Access for Transgendered Students National

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Derek W. Black

January 22, 2015

The Becoming Radical: No Excuses for Advocacy Masquerading as Research

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P.L. Thomas

January 21, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Revisiting the Standards: What They Are Not

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Amethyst Hinton Sainz

January 21, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Why the Test Debate is About Politics, Not Education

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Jeff Bryant

January 21, 2015

EduShyster: Separate but Innovative: MLK 2.0

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January 20, 2015

School Finance 101: The Subgroup Scam & Testing Everyone Every Year

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Bruce D. Baker

January 20, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal to Congress: I Was Wrong When I Supported NCLB. Learn From My Mistake

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 20, 2015

Janresseger: NCLB Reauthorization Debate Focuses on Role of Testing, Ignores Expanding Opportunity

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Jan Resseger

January 16, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Pulling the Trigger on Public Schools

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Mike Klonsky

January 16, 2015

Deborah Meier on Education: Data and More Data

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Deborah Meier

January 16, 2015

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: National Heritage Academies Makes Money for Themselves, but No Sense for Taxpayers

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Crazy Crawfish

January 15, 2015

Education Law Prof Blog: How Parents Choose Schools

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Derek W. Black

January 15, 2015

VAMboozled: A Really Old Oldie but Still Very Relevant Goodie

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 15, 2015

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: What Education Policy Do Civil Rights Groups Want?

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Diane Ravitch

January 14, 2015

Teacher Under Construction: Teachers: What are We Doing for Leelah?

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Stephanie Rivera

January 14, 2015

Arizona Stories from School: Citizenship Starts in the Imagination

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Eve Rifkin

January 14, 2015

Curmudgucation: What Duncan Got Wrong About Testing

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Peter Greene

January 13, 2015

School Finance 101: “Urban” Poverty and “Racial” Achievement Gaps are So Yesterday? Not!

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Bruce D. Baker

January 13, 2015

The Becoming Radical: USDOE: When in a Hole, Keep Digging

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P.L. Thomas

January 13, 2015

EduSanity: Local Media Takes on the Opt Out Issue, Sort Of

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Christian Z. Goering

January 12, 2015

Shanker Blog: Resources on the Social Side of Education Reform

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Esther Quintero

January 12, 2015

Sam Chaltain: Has Testing Reached a Tipping Point? (Part Deux)

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Sam Chaltain

January 12, 2015

Living in Dialogue: Future Shock: Education on a Shrinking Planet

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John Thompson

January 9, 2015

Education in Two Worlds: Cream Rises to the Top in the Charters?

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Gene V Glass

January 9, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: An Education New Year’s Resolution We Can All Believe In

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Jeff Bryant

January 9, 2015

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Open Letters To Reformers I DON’T Know. Part I: Joel Klein

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Gary Rubinstein

January 8, 2015

Sherman Dorn: Most Fabulist Edu-Predictions of 2015

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Sherman Dorn

January 8, 2015

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Predictions about Technology in K-12 and Higher Education for 2025

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Larry Cuban

January 8, 2015

Curmudgucation: Why I Engage

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Peter Greene

January 7, 2015

For the Love of Learning: 3 Big Ideas About Teacher Workload

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Joe Bower

January 7, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Teacher Evaluation: Going from Bad to Worse

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 6, 2015

School Finance 101: Education Shouldn’t Be an Unfair Game!

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Bruce D. Baker

January 6, 2015

NPR Ed: What Schools Could Use Instead of Standardized Tests

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Anya Kamenetz

January 6, 2015

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: China's Testing Factories. Duncan's Fantasy

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Mike Klonsky

January 5, 2015

EduShyster: There Goes the Neighborhood School

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January 5, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Education’s Newsmaker Of The Year: Charter School Scandals

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Jeff Bryant

January 5, 2015

The Becoming Radical: Claiming the Education Reform Narrative

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P.L. Thomas

December 19, 2014

Shanker Blog: New Research on School Discipline

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Esther Quintero

December 19, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: Charter School "Gibberish"

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Jersey Jazzman

December 19, 2014

Curmudgucation: Toxic Expectations

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Peter Greene

December 18, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Pillars of Reform Collapsing, Reformers Contemplate Defeat

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Anthony Cody

December 18, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Dr. Raymond, Please Meet Mr. Kenneth Boulding

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Gene V Glass

December 18, 2014

The Answer Sheet: What Arne Duncan’s New Senior Adviser Did to N.Y. Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

December 17, 2014

VAMboozled!: VAM Updates from an Important State to Watch: Tennessee

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 17, 2014

Deborah Meier on Education: Emotional Intelligence (by Nicholas Meier)

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Nicholas Meier

December 17, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teacher Use of Academic Research

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Larry Cuban

December 16, 2014

EduShyster: Karen Lewis Talks Protests, Politics & Getting Back in the Mix

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December 16, 2014

Janresseger: School Privatization: We Have Opened a Pandora’s Box of Plagues and Evils

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Jan Resseger

December 16, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Is @TeachForAmerica Cloaking Inequity?: Discussing the Headwind

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

December 15, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: The Best Articles, Posts & Videos on Education Policy in 2014 – Part Two

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Larry Ferlazzo

December 15, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Who’s Really Failing Students?

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Jeff Bryant

December 15, 2014

Curmudgucation: Charters Break the American Promise

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Peter Greene

December 12, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: Exit Through the Front Door

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Eve Rifkin

December 12, 2014

The Answer Sheet: If Teachers are Judged by Student Test Scores, How About State Education Leaders?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

December 11, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Survival of the Fittest

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John Thompson

December 11, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Bad News for Ohio Charters

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Derek W. Black

December 11, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: An Excellent Editorial in the Los Angeles Times about the iPad Debacle

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Diane Ravitch

December 11, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Mirabile Dictu! State Departments of Education are Political!

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Gene V Glass

December 10, 2014

School Finance 101: Children’s Constitutional Rights and School Funding: Why the Charter Funding Disparity Lawsuits in NY and DC are Misguided

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Bruce D. Baker

December 10, 2014

Janresseger: Protests Against Testing Grow but We’re Not There Yet

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Jan Resseger

December 9, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Can EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism Inspire New Ways of Teaching Science?

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Jack Hassard

December 9, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Charters and $$$$: Has Anyone Seen Anything Like This?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

December 9, 2014

The Becoming Radical: 2014 NCUEA Fall Conference: Thirty Years of Accountability Deserves an F

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P.L. Thomas

December 8, 2014

Deborah Meier on Education: The Public Purpose of Education and Schooling

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Deborah Meier

December 8, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Are We on the Verge of an End to Test-Based Accountability?

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

December 8, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: “This Will Revolutionize Education” – A Story That Needs To Be Told Again and Again

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Larry Cuban

December 5, 2014

EduShyster: The Bleak Friday Interview

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December 5, 2014

Janresseger: Income Inequality Tears the Social Fabric and Undermines School Achievement

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Jan Resseger

December 5, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Dear Teacher, You Are Not the Most Important Thing in the Universe

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Gene V Glass

December 4, 2014

EduSanity: Beware of CCSS Political Hype

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Jason Endacott

December 4, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Award-Winning Story Questions the ‘Charter School Hype’

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Jeff Bryant

December 4, 2014

Curmudgucation: Meaning and Standardized Writing

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Peter Greene

December 3, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: How to Survive and Prevail in this Era of Greed and Privatization

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Diane Ravitch

December 3, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: Rigor Mortis

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Donnie Dicus

December 3, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: What is Missing from the Five Big Ideas to Reform Education?

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Derek W. Black

December 2, 2014

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: If You Want to Improve Learning Outcomes, Raise the Minimum Wage

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Mike Klonsky

December 2, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: My Dumb Common Core/PARCC Question

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Jersey Jazzman

December 2, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: “Grit” Runs Amok in the New York Times

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Larry Ferlazzo

December 1, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: David Berliner Tells Arne Duncan How to Do Teacher Education Right (by David Berliner)

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David C. Berliner and Gene V Glass

December 1, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Classroom Alchemy (Michele Kerr) (by Michele Kerr)

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Michele Kerr and Larry Cuban

December 1, 2014

Shanker Blog: A Descriptive Analysis of the 2014 D.C. Charter School Ratings

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 26, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Education Reform Hypocrites

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Anthony Cody

November 26, 2014

Deborah Meier on Education: Privilege

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Deborah Meier

November 26, 2014

EduShyster: Now Under New Management

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November 25, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: Parents and Teachers Take Standardized Practice Test to Better Understand What Students are Facing

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Susan Ohanian

November 25, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Teaching With Our Doors Open: Professional Transparency as Acts of Resistance

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P.L. Thomas

November 25, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Why People Are ‘Walking In’ For Public Schools

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Jeff Bryant

November 24, 2014

Huffington Post: A Path Beyond the Opt-Out Movement

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Kevin G. Welner

November 24, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Principal Uncovers Flawed Data in Her State’s Official Education Reports

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

November 24, 2014

For the Love of Learning: In the Real World, We Wouldn’t Judge a Teacher by Their Students’ Test Scores

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Joe Bower

November 21, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Arizona Appeals Court Rejects Charter School Lobby's Claims

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Gene V Glass

November 21, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: The One-Room School

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Lisa Moberg

November 21, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: One District's Rationale for Isolation

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Derek W. Black

November 20, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Race and Power in the Classroom: A Student’s Reflection

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Israel Muñoz

November 20, 2014

Deborah Meier on Education: More Books by Teachers

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Deborah Meier

November 20, 2014

Curmudgucation: PA Cyber Charters Failing

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Peter Greene

November 19, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Is the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Smart or Just Dumb?

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Jack Hassard

November 19, 2014

EduShyster: Brain Scams

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November 19, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: HECHINGER: What Went Wrong at K12 Inc.?

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Diane Ravitch

November 18, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Education Accountability as Disaster Bureaucracy

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P.L. Thomas

November 18, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Can We Stop Using Tests To Drive Education Reform?

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Jeff Bryant

November 18, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Software Will Not ‘Eat’ Education (Ben Stern) (by Ben Stern)

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Ben Stern and Larry Cuban

November 17, 2014

Shanker Blog: Rethinking the Use of Simple Achievement Gap Measures in School Accountability Systems

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 17, 2014

Sam Chaltain: In Trying to Reduce Class Sizes, Are We Trying to Solve the Wrong Problem?

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Sam Chaltain

November 17, 2014

Denver Post: Honor Great Schools, Not Great Scores

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Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

November 14, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Are Charter Schools Greenhouses for Innovation and Creativity?

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Gene V Glass

November 14, 2014

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Charter Schools are Now Paying Kids to Try Them Out

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Crazy Crawfish

November 14, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Are Education Groups Really Listening to Their Members?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

November 13, 2014

Curmudgucation: Green Dot Offers View of Alternate Universe

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Peter Greene

November 13, 2014

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Charter School Churn Leaves Students and Families in Turmoil

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Mike Klonsky

November 13, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Will Schools Sort Society’s Winners and Losers?

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Anthony Cody

November 12, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Shifting Our Deficit Gaze, Asking Different Questions About Literacy

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P.L. Thomas

November 12, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: School Choice: An Attack on Traditional Public Schools

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Jess Ledbetter

November 12, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Lopez Responds to Betts and Tang

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Diane Ravitch

November 11, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: The Common Core: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

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Jack Hassard

November 11, 2014

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Is P-Tech a Miracle School or a Failing School?

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Gary Rubinstein

November 11, 2014

EduShyster: No Strings Attached

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November 10, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: What Have Charter Schools Taught Us About Education?

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Gene V Glass

November 10, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy

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Larry Ferlazzo

November 10, 2014

VAMboozled!: Education-Related Election Updates

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 7, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NYC: What Lessons Are Charters Teaching to Public Schools?

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Diane Ravitch

November 7, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: The Coalition for an Education Agenda Isn’t There, Yet

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Jeff Bryant

November 7, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: MOOCs Carve Out a Narrow Niche in Higher Education: A Familiar Story for K-12 Use of Educational Technology

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Larry Cuban

November 6, 2014

Yong Zhao: Fooling the Emperor: How is Creativity Misapplied in China?

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Yong Zhao

November 6, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Unpacking Education and Teacher Impact

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P.L. Thomas

November 6, 2014

Shanker Blog: The Bewildering Arguments Underlying Florida’s Fight Over ELL Test Scores

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Matthew Di Carlo

November 5, 2014

At the Chalk Face: Testing and Monitoring in Kindergarten

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Shaun Johnson

November 5, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: Charter Schools: Why Poverty Measures Matter

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Jersey Jazzman

November 5, 2014

Curmudgucation: Speak Friction

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Peter Greene

November 4, 2014

VAMboozled!: “Highly Regarded” Teacher Suing New York over “Ineffective” VAM Scores

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

November 4, 2014

Deborah Meier on Education: Books by Teachers

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Deborah Meier

November 4, 2014

EduShyster: Spare a Little (Disruptive) Change?

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November 3, 2014

For the Love of Learning: BREAKING: America’s Poorest Schools Have the Poorest Children

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Joe Bower

November 3, 2014

The Conversation: Making Sense of the Evidence on Charter School Test Scores

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Kevin G. Welner

November 3, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Brian Ford Writes a Letter to the Editors of TIME

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Diane Ravitch

October 31, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Technologies and School Reform: Kissing Cousins*

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Larry Cuban

October 31, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Big Money Taking Over Education Politics

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Jeff Bryant

October 31, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: My Quiet Rage: Against Objectives

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Amethyst Hinton Sainz

October 30, 2014

The Becoming Radical: How I Learned to Distrust the Media (About Education)

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P.L. Thomas

October 30, 2014

Shanker Blog: The Equity Projection

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Matthew Di Carlo

October 30, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: New Study: NJ Charters Do NOT Serve As Many At-Risk, LEP, Special Ed Students

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Jersey Jazzman

October 29, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Civil Rights Organizations to @BarackObama: NCLB has “Narrow Measures” and Discouraged “Rich Curriculum”

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 29, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Facts Behind the Arizona School Finance Case

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Gene V Glass

October 29, 2014

Curmudgucation: Slow Schools

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Peter Greene

October 28, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: More Than Just a Pipeline?: Students, Disabilities, and Incarceration

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Derek W. Black

October 28, 2014

VAMboozled!: TIME Magazine Needs a TIME Out

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 28, 2014

EduShyster: The Chicago Charter Blues

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October 27, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Persistent Dilemma of Play, Work, and Testing in Prekindergarten

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Larry Cuban

October 27, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Does Arne Duncan Think ‘Suburban Moms’ are a Gullible Bunch?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

October 27, 2014

For the Love of Learning: 3 Reasons to Stop Rewarding and Punishing Children

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Joe Bower

October 24, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy

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Larry Ferlazzo

October 24, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Will Education Save The Democrats?

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Jeff Bryant

October 24, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Scholars: What Matters Most for Successful Teaching is Collaboration, Not Competition

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Diane Ravitch

October 23, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: New Orleans Student Social Security Numbers Found on Auctioned-Off Laptops

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Susan Ohanian

October 23, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Dewey, Testing Companies, and the Origin of the Common Core

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 23, 2014

Curmudgucation: Google Hearts TFA in Worst Way

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Peter Greene

October 22, 2014

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: 92,000 Arrested in U.S. Schools. Chicago Leads in Filling School-to-Jail Pipeline

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Mike Klonsky

October 22, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Actually, We Do Know if High-Quality Preschool Benefits Kids. What the Research Really Says

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Valerie Strauss and W. Steven Barnett

October 22, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Charter Schools: An Experiment Gone Awry (by Wendy Lecker)

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Wendy Lecker and Anthony Cody

October 21, 2014

VAMboozled!: Rothstein, Chetty et al., and VAM-Based Bias

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 21, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Arne Duncan on Standardized Testing

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Derek W. Black

October 21, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Our Enduring Deficit Gaze: Misreading Poverty (Again)

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P.L. Thomas

October 20, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Authoritarian Spray: How the Spread of Standardization is Damaging Public Schools With Its Canopy of a Common Core, High-Stakes Testing and Market-Based Hooey

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Jack Hassard

October 20, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: School Leaders as Marathoners, not Sprinters*

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Larry Cuban

October 20, 2014

At the Chalk Face: Education Post’s Selective Concern with “Belittling”

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Mercedes Schneider

October 17, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: @GovChristie is SOLELY Responsible for a Climate of Disrespect Toward NJ Teachers

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Jersey Jazzman

October 17, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Why Change the Way We Talk About Education

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Jeff Bryant

October 17, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: EdWeek Series Beyond Rhetoric: @TeachForAmerica You are My Obsession

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 16, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: I Don't Use Rewards -- But My School Does

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John Spencer

October 16, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Myra Blackmon: Testing Insanity in Georgia

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Diane Ravitch

October 15, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Progressive Educators in an Oppressive System: Assigning Grades

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Michelle Gunderson and Katie Osgood

October 15, 2014

Shanker Blog: Redesigning Florida’s School Report Cards

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Matthew Di Carlo

October 15, 2014

Curmudgucation: How We Pay Public Servants -- and Why

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Peter Greene

October 14, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: The Growing Inadequacy in Georgia's Public Schools

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Derek W. Black

October 14, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Idealizing, Misreading Impoverished and Minority Parental Choice

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P.L. Thomas

October 14, 2014

EduShyster: Open Doors, Open Hearts

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October 13, 2014

VAMboozled!: A Major VAMbarrassment in New Orleans

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

October 13, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts & Articles on Ed Policy

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Larry Ferlazzo

October 13, 2014

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: And Here I Thought Cuomo and Duncan Were Already Success Academy Lobbyists

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Mike Klonsky

October 10, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Testing and Accountability: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 10, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Education ‘Reformers’ Have Lost Their PR War, So Now What?

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Jeff Bryant

October 10, 2014

Sam Chaltain: The Singularity is Coming. What Should Schools Be Doing About It?

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Sam Chaltain

October 9, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Looking at Children Use of Technologies at Home and School

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Larry Cuban

October 9, 2014

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: The Louisiana Eureka Rebellion

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Crazy Crawfish

October 9, 2014

Education Insiders: When Educators Are the Ones Who Cheat

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Fawn Johnson and Kevin G. Welner

October 8, 2014

The Answer Sheet: How to Start Cleaning up the Common Core

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Carol C. Burris and Valerie Strauss

October 8, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: NEPC: Latest Charter School Meta-Study Exaggerates Their Benefits

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Diane Ravitch

October 8, 2014

Curmudgucation: Network for Public Education Makes History Saturday

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Peter Greene

October 7, 2014

Shanker Blog: Building and Sustaining Research-Practice Partnerships (by Bill Penuel)

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William R. Penuel and Matthew Di Carlo

October 7, 2014

Yong Zhao: Time to Give Up: A Response to Marc Tucker’s Proposal for Fixing Our National Accountability System

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Yong Zhao

October 7, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: The Bad Faith Arguments of @campbell_brown

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Jersey Jazzman

October 6, 2014

Sherman Dorn: Zombie Stats: “Dropout Rate” as a Case in Point

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Sherman Dorn

October 6, 2014

EduShyster: Question Authoritarianism

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October 6, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Carol Burris: A New Way to Honor Successful Schools

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Diane Ravitch

October 3, 2014

Living in Dialogue: What Happens When Education Serves the Economy?

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Anthony Cody

October 3, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Student Protests are a Bigger Deal Than You Think

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Jeff Bryant

October 3, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching U.S. History in a Failing School (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

October 2, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching U.S. History in a Failing School (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

October 2, 2014

At the Chalk Face: Dana Goldstein and New Insights into Why Teachers are Targeted

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John Thompson

October 2, 2014

The Answer Sheet:’ Schools of Opportunity’ — A New Project to Recognize Schools That Give All Students a Chance to Succeed

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

October 2, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Office for Civil Rights Releases New Guidance on Resource Equity, Will It Enforce It?

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Derek W. Black

October 1, 2014

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Educating Albert and STEM

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Mike Klonsky

October 1, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Is the Impact of Charter Schools on Achievement a Big Lie?

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

October 1, 2014

Curmudgucation: The Market Hates Losers

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Peter Greene

September 30, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: This is Not News! Bill Gates Loves Common Core and Arne Duncan

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Diane Ravitch

September 30, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: How Charter School Owners Feather Their Nests & Other Conflicts of Interest

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Gene V Glass

September 30, 2014

Campaign for America's Future: Poll Shows How Democrats Can Win with a Public Education Agenda

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Jeff Bryant

September 29, 2014

EduShyster: Rabble Rouser

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September 29, 2014

Sherman Dorn: Can Sampling Save High-Stakes Testing?

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Sherman Dorn

September 29, 2014

EduSanity: Colorado Students are Right: Your History is Un-American

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Jason Endacott

September 26, 2014

For the Love of Learning: Pak Tee Ng (Singapore): Teach Less, Learn More

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Joe Bower

September 26, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: Colorado Teacher: ‘I Refuse To Administer the PARCC’ Common Core Test To My Students

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Susan Ohanian

September 26, 2014

Shanker Blog: What You Need to Know About Misleading Education Graphs, in Two Graphs

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Matthew Di Carlo

September 25, 2014

The Becoming Radical: Misguided Reading Policy Creates Wrong Lessons for Students as Writers

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P.L. Thomas

September 25, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: This Week’s “Round-Up” of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos on Ed Policy

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Larry Ferlazzo

September 25, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Preparing Teachers for Urban Schools

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Larry Cuban

September 24, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: Twenty Minutes

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Lisa Moberg

September 24, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Another Common Core Lawsuit, But This One Raises Unique Claims

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Derek W. Black

September 24, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Are the New Reform Cops the Same as the Old Cops?

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Anthony Cody

September 23, 2014

Curmudgucation: CCSS: Set in Stone?

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Peter Greene

September 23, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: STEM Shortage? Baloney

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Gene V Glass

September 23, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Universal School “Choice”: Schools Ultimately Do the Choosing

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

September 22, 2014

VAMboozled!: Jesse Rothstein on Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Tenure

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 22, 2014

Campaign for America's Future: What’s the Matter with Kansas Education Policy?

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Jeff Bryant

September 22, 2014

EduShyster: The White Fit

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September 19, 2014

Shanker Blog: Regular Public and Charter Schools: Is a Different Conversation Possible?

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Esther Quintero

September 19, 2014

InterACT: Relying on Half-Truths in Vergara P.R. Push

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David B. Cohen

September 19, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: iPads for Young Children in School

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Larry Cuban

September 18, 2014

For the Love of Learning: The Future of Principals in Canada (by David Berliner)

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David C. Berliner and Joe Bower

September 18, 2014

At the Chalk Face: Are We Ready To Move Beyond Our Reform Wars?

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John Thompson

September 18, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: Why Teachers Are Still the Experts

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John Spencer

September 17, 2014

EduSanity: Inequitable Teacher Salaries Studied by Arkansas Legislature

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Christian Z. Goering

September 17, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Four Common Core ‘Flimflams’

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 17, 2014

Living in Dialogue: Time For a New Conversation Indeed: PUBLIC Education Nation is Here

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Anthony Cody

September 16, 2014

Deborah Meier on Education: School as Community

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Deborah Meier

September 16, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: Charter Schools: In Whose Interest?

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Jack Hassard

September 16, 2014

Yong Zhao: Fatal Attraction: America’s Suicidal Quest for Educational Excellence

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Yong Zhao

September 15, 2014

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: The Recent Visual and Virtual Reminder of the Need for Strong Student Privacy Laws

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Crazy Crawfish

September 15, 2014

School Finance 101: Anatomy of Educational Inequality & Why School Funding Matters

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Bruce D. Baker

September 15, 2014

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Frayser 9GA, the Miracle School of the Achievement School District

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Gary Rubinstein

September 12, 2014

VAMboozled!: Principals’ Perspectives on Value-Added

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 12, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Aliens Laud Affirmative Action In Texas Social Studies Curriculum (Really)

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

September 12, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Study Finds Link Between Music Education and Language and Reading Skills: May Help Close Achievement Gap

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Derek W. Black

September 11, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Does Holding Kids Back a Year Help Them Academically? No. But Schools Still Do It.

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Valerie Strauss and P.L. Thomas

September 11, 2014

Shanker Blog: The Fatal Flaw of Education Reform

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Matthew Di Carlo

September 11, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: An Illinois Superintendent Writes about What Matters Most

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Diane Ravitch

September 10, 2014

EduShyster: The High Cost of No Excuses

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September 10, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: Everybody Knows

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Mike Lee

September 10, 2014

Curmudgucation: Adding Insult to Injury

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Peter Greene

September 9, 2014

EduSanity: An F for Arkansas’ Plan to Grade Schools

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Christian Z. Goering

September 9, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Poems By and For Teachers: What Teachers Make (Taylor Mali) (by Taylor Mali)

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Taylor Mali and Larry Cuban

September 9, 2014

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Why Do I Think Bobby Jindal is Scamming Us with Faux Common Core Lawsuits?

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Crazy Crawfish

September 8, 2014

For the Love of Learning: Bring Your Own Device: It’s Awesome Except for the Inequity

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Joe Bower

September 8, 2014

The Art of Teaching Science: E-valuating Teaching: It Doesn’t Add Up–An Art of Teaching Science Inquiry

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Jack Hassard

September 8, 2014

VAMboozled!: Using Student Surveys to Evaluate Teachers

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

September 5, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: The Education Talk ‘Reformers’ Want Versus the One They Get

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Jeff Bryant

September 5, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: William Mathis on “Economics, Education and Sitting Bull” (by William Mathis)

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William J. Mathis and Gene V Glass

September 5, 2014

Shanker Blog: Why Teachers and Researchers Should Work Together for Improvement (by Bill Penuel)

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William R. Penuel and Matthew Di Carlo

September 4, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: How to Get Kids to Come to Class: Stop Counting the Wrong Numbers

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Susan Ohanian

September 4, 2014

The Becoming Radical: The Conversation UK: Keeping Children Back a Year Doesn’t Help Them Read Better

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P.L. Thomas

September 4, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Two More Florida Charters Close Abruptly

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Diane Ravitch

September 3, 2014

At the Chalk Face: Lessons To Be Learned from Elizabeth Green’s Building a Better Teacher

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John Thompson

September 3, 2014

Education Law Prof Blog: Can Education Be Reformed Without Equality?

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Derek W. Black

September 3, 2014

EduShyster: Can We Talk? (I Mean Really...) (by The 49er)

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The 49er

September 2, 2014

Jersey Jazzman: An Open Letter to Star-Ledger Editorial Board Director @tomamoran

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Jersey Jazzman

September 2, 2014

Arizona Stories from School: Let Freedom Ring!

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Lisa Moberg

September 2, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: Put a Hold on that Pultizer Prize Until We Answer a Couple of Questions

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Gene V Glass

August 29, 2014

Crazy Crawfish’s Blog: Standardized Lying

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Crazy Crawfish

August 29, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Charter Schools Don’t Need an Ad Campaign; They Need Regulation

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Jeff Bryant

August 29, 2014

VAMboozled!: Vergara in New York, Thanks (in Part) to Campbell Brown

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

August 28, 2014

Shanker Blog: A Quick Look at the ASA Statement on Value-Added

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Matthew Di Carlo

August 28, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: Lee County Makes History, Ops Out of Common Core Testing

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Susan Ohanian

August 28, 2014

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Building Better Teachers—Mastering The Craft Demands Time To Collaborate—Just What American Schools Don’t Provide (Sara Mosle) (by Sara Mosle)

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Larry Cuban and Sara Mosle

August 27, 2014

The Answer Sheet: What New Common Core Test Scores Really Show

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Carol C. Burris and Valerie Strauss

August 27, 2014

The Becoming Radical: “Other People’s Children” v. “They’re All Our Children”

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P.L. Thomas

August 27, 2014

EduShyster.com: Rich Student, Poor Student

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August 26, 2014

InterACT: The Trouble with “The Trouble With Tenure”

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David B. Cohen

August 26, 2014

Education in Two Worlds: One State Has the Courage to Stand for What It Believes

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Gene V Glass

August 26, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Vermont to the Nation: This is What Good Education Looks Like

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Diane Ravitch

August 25, 2014

Cloaking Inequity: Back-to-School? Classrooms by Walmart?: Feel Guilty About Shopping at Walmart

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Julian Vasquez Heilig

August 25, 2014

Campaign for America’s Future: Back to Schools White People Cannot See

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Jeff Bryant

August 25, 2014

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Public Support for Obama’s School Policies is Plunging

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Mike Klonsky

August 22, 2014