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How Education ‘Reform’ Perpetuates Racial Disparity
'Market-based' education policies and 'accountability' have been powerful agents in spreading education disparities that fall along racial lines.America was shocked, shocked, by new data from the U.S....
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Common Core Propaganda Fails: Well-Financed Education 'Reformers' Fight...
Big business and corporate media keep pushing the Core and charter schools. The pushback is heartening and real. For years, elites in big business, foundations, well-endowed think tanks, and corporate...
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What Do Education Policy Makers Need? A Good Dose of Parental Advice
Current education policies are misaligned with parenting and the role it plays in child development, achievement and school governance.For most children, their first teacher is a parent or primary...
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The Shocking Rise of School Segregation
Has the current administration turned its back on the legacy of Brown v. Board?So this one’s personal for me.The day they bused the poor kids to my school was the first time I’d ever come face to face...
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Education Accountability We Can Believe In
Kids need opportunities to engage in meaningful learning, not more tests.Michelle Obama is very upset.According to reports from CNN, the First Lady finds it’s “unacceptable” that Republicans lawmakers...
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The Dirty, Little Secret in America's Education Wars? Money Matters
Spending more money on schools is what most people really want. Yet what we've been seeing is a 'reform' agenda that emphasizes anything but.An interesting twist in the ever-fascinating narrative of...
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The Cost of Leaving Educators Off the Education Agenda
Why are teachers so often shut out of policy debates about the future of education?This act is wearing thin.As implementations of Common Core State Standards falter around the country, supporters of...
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Why Are Journalists So Tone Deaf When It Comes to Education?
Mainstream journalists have mostly misjudged what's driving the education debate.Who could ever forget comedian Jon Stewart’s commentary in early 2009 on how financial reporters totally botched...
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Has Netroots Nation Finally Seen the Light on Corporate Education Reform?
A shift in talking points at the progressive community's signature gathering.Every year, Netroots Nation is arguably the most important event in the progressive community, and a telling barometer of...
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Why Picking the 'Lesser of Two Evils' Has Gotten Us Nowhere in Education
Policy compromises forged by centrist Democrats have had truly bad consequences for public education.A common admonition progressives have gotten used to hearing over the years is to support more...
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Ego, Money and False Promises: Michelle Rhee’s Big Secret and the Collapse of...
Maybe it’s time to stick a fork in education reform, and get set for what the new ed-tech industrialists are going to bring us.When Michelle Rhee left the center stage of the movement known as...
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Charter Schools Don't Need an Ad Campaign, They Need Regulation
Reports of financial malfeasance and lack of transparency continue to dog the charter school industry.This time of year, while classroom teachers and administrators in public schools are busy welcoming...
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Why Student Protests Are a Bigger Deal Than You Think
It's not just curricular changes that are causing students to rise up and walk out.When hundreds of high school students across a suburban school district outside of Denver, Colo. recently walked out...
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It's Time to Change the Way We Talk About Education
Learning and teaching are cooperative processes. Until we acknowledge that, we'll never get beyond today’s failed remedies.Sometimes when you get enough people beating on the outside of a building,...
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How Big Money Is Taking Over Education Politics
It's not just the big races that are being poisoned by corporate interests.Most folks in the Democratic Party have a problem with the Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that permitted...
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Why Do We Insist on Using Tests to Drive Education Reform?
Increased testing is now at the heart of reform policies being implemented in our schools -- for absolutely no good reason.“Stop using tests to try to drive education reform.”That’s the conclusion from...
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How 2014 Became the Year of the Charter School Scandal
Stories of embezzlement and exorbitant costs -- it's been a tough year for the charter school movement. Since it’s the time of the year when newspapers, websites, and television talk shows scan their...
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How the Top-Down Imposition of Unproven Charter Schools Is Roiling Parents...
A fight over education in Nashville might come your way next: It's a proxy for dangerous right-wing education ideas.“We know we need to do something about students who are not achieving in our...
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Are We Finally Ready to Spend More Money on Public Education?
To provide high quality education to our children, raising the level of financial commitment is essential. Don’t get too excited yet, but there are signs we may have finally turned a corner for the...
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How Teach For America Advocates Aren’t Being Honest About Education Reform,...
Communities don't want underprepared teachers who aren't committed to the community.Howard Dean had an epiphany.As he described in his recent post for Salon, when he toured a high school in the Ninth...
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How Bad Media Is Driving the Collapse of Our Once-Great Public Education System
Most of the news media have no idea how schools run, but they write about them as if they do.Be afraid, be very afraid, any time you see a reporter in the business media turn his or her attention to...
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The Time for Education Justice is Now
The fight for fairness in the world of higher education is gathering much needed steam.A nationwide rebellion to K-12 education policies that emerged in the spring of 2013 brought to the fore...
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The Big Cheat: Why Teachers Are Going to Prison While Charter School...
Atlanta's school teachers aren't alone in their attempts to cheat the system.No one likes a cheater.So you’d think plenty of people would be pleased to hear that educators in Atlanta, on trial for...
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What We Can Learn From Dallas' Fight Against School Privatization
An example from an unlikely place shows it's possible to stop public schools from becoming private enterprises.Few people in New Orleans have forgiven US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for once...
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The Great Charter School Rip-Off: Finally, the Truth Catches Up to Education...
Reports highlight awful charter schools and people are catching on.Last week when former President Bill Clinton meandered onto the topic of charter schools, he mentioned something about an “original...
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Do We Need a National Moratorium on Charter Schools?
A coalition has raised concerns about the Education Department's continued funding of charter schools.Making public education more accountable has been the solemn pledge of government officials for...
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10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Schools Continue to Flounder
10 years after Hurricane Katrina, NOLA's all-charter school district continues to raise more questions than it answers.As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, you can count on seeing a...
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Parents Fight Conservative Zealots and Charter School Advocates For Control...
In Jefferson County, Colorado an acrimonious debate is taking place over the future of public school.It's Tuesday evening, and people have come to church — but not for religion.What's bringing people...
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The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie: Why His Florida Education ‘Miracle’ Is...
The pathway out of poverty these schools were supposed to provide now looks more like a detour to profit-making.When people begin a story about how to fix America, they often start with education, and...
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Why Even Progressive Democrats Fall for 'Accountability' and Phony Education...
A congressman calls out his colleagues on education policy.Progressive Democrats are right to hail the new populism in their party driving the debate about the nation’s economic policies and the...
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How Jeb Bush's Florida Plan for School 'Choice' Created an Industry of...
The obsession over money driving charter school growth in Florida is increasingly evident to those who bother to look."We're making decisions just based on the money.” That’s Rosemarie Jensen talking,...
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How the GOP and Education Privatizers Are Using Charters to Bleed...
Teachers are now working for free in a school district undone by charter schools and state government neglect.As schools across Pennsylvania open their doors for the new school year, there’s one...
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Take That, Charter Schools: Why a Washington Court Decision Will Force...
Charter schools will be accountable when they are just as transparent as public schools. Now it might happen.The recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Washington state that charter schools are...
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Memo to Scott Walker From Milwaukee: 'We’re Not Going To Let Our Public...
Parents, teachers, and students had a range of specific complaints that can all be attributed to Walker’s governance.If Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thought running for President of the United...
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The Ugly Charter School Scandal Arne Duncan Is Leaving Behind
Duncan's resignation has obscured his decision to dole out big bucks to the charter industry before he goes.Arne Duncan’s surprise announcement to leave his post as secretary of education in December...
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We Kicked the Koch Brothers' A**: How Denver Parents Beat Back Big Money,...
The Kochs spent a fortune on a local school board race that was really a national proxy. Then the good guys won.Although many Democrats are disappointed, even in a “panic,” with the results from last...
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VIDEO: 'Shake Off Those Charter Chains!'
What you really need to know about the chains that run charter schools.Advocates for charter schools frequently argue that generalizing about these schools is unfair because charters, by their very...
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Go Ahead, Pass the Every Student Succeeds Act, but Don’t Celebrate It
We need to pause and reflect on where we are in the evolution of education policy.On Wednesday afternoon, the House overwhelmingly passed the proposed Every Student Succeeds Act by 359 to 64. The...
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We’re Onto the Phony Education Reformers: Charter School Charlatans and Faux...
After years of attacks on teachers and public education, Americans are catching up to the real story in our schools.2015 will forever be remembered as the year the political establishment was shaken by...
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What 'School Choice' Means for the Future of Education
Your primer to the host of problems bundled up in those two little words.Last week marked the annual, "National School Choice Week," with events across the country promoting "education options" such as...
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