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10 steps to overcoming governance obstacles in K-12 online learning
Digital learning demands we change the rules
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In Indianapolis, district overhaul needed to accelerate change
The Super Bowl’s over; now the real game begins
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Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals
Slowly peeling back the layers
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Charter Schools
Adam explains voucher cuts on WSJ.com
Choice czar Adam Emerson recorded an interview with the Wall Street Journal on President Obama's proposed cuts to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
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The poverty myth persists
Want a convenient scapegoat for our education problems? Poverty. It’s there, it’s handy.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Send in the clowns: Common Core implementation advice just keeps getting worse
When it comes to organizations peddling Common Core implementation resources and strategies, the buyer should beware.
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Attention principals: use your flexibility
A new study shows that, given with more flexibility, principals still mostly don't fire anybody.
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Charter Schools
A bill targets the charter inequities wrought by political compromise
Allowing local dollars to follow local students is an important first step in addressing unfair funding systems.
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Charter Schools
Obama turns his back on a deal for the D.C. voucher program
The president's new budget proposal quashes last year's compromise to resurrect the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
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States’ rights: a slippery slope back to mediocrity?
Why the Koret Task Force's recommendations for the federal role in education have the edge over Rep. John Kline's most recent ESEA proposals.
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Education malfeasance: the “reading to learn” myth
The problem with our current approach to teaching literacy.
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I come not to bury summative assessments but to praise them
summative assessments, formative assessments
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Charter Schools
The fight over mandated contraceptive services has lessons for school choice
The struggles between the Catholic Church and the Obama Administration reveal the fault lines that surface when Washington tries to tinker with the complex machinery that administers our health, social services...and education.
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Charter Schools
Turning on a successful charter in the Keystone State
Charters are the answer, not the enemy.
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Charter Schools
From the Cuyahoga to CT, charters had a good week
Tardiness and school construction are among the education issues keeping courts busy.
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Charter Schools
Choice and Federalism: Defining the Federal Role in Education
Break the ESEA stalemate
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Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Perspectives and Strategies for Challenging Times
Stretching the school dollar goes mainstream
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Pension-Induced Rigidities in the Labor Market for School Leaders
Complex methodology, simple message
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Hope is not a plan
Why raising the dropout age may get more kids to stay in school, but it won’t meaningfully increase the number of students ready to succeed after graduation.
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Field notes: car crashes into school and other educational issues.
From walking school buses to bullying, Peter examines the day-to-day challenges of education policy.
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Surviving Pennsylvania's school aid cuts
It's time for folks in the Keystone State to recognize that the current fiscal crunch will take more than a little short-term pain to resolve.
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Five key factors to the success of Cleveland’s school transformation plan
Cleveland has taken a significant step toward becoming one of the nation's school-reform leaders with the introduction this week of Mayor Frank Jackson’s "Plan for Transforming Schools."
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Charter Schools
Turning on a successful charter in Chester Upland
A lot of negative forces contributed to Chester Upland’s present circumstance, and it will take an equal or greater number of positive forces to turn it around. That should include a successful charter school.
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Scaling up by scaling down, part 2: Deborah Meier meets Jay Mathews
The success of so many different models of schooling over the last couple of decades suggest that it is less pedagogy than governance methodology that is the key.