Education Establishment Opinion
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TELL: Impossible to Regulate Deregulated Charter Schools
Regulations have to do with what is allowed and what is not allowed. They establish what an individual, organization, or…
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TELL: Impossible to Regulate Deregulated Charter Schools
Regulations have to do with what is allowed and what is not allowed. They establish what an individual, organization, or…
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DALLAS MORNING NEWS: The Real Winner in Texas Tuesday? Public Education
Thousands of residents in the Dallas, Frisco and Richardson school districts sent a strong message that kids in their communities…
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BRYANT: The Midterms Show America’s Major Shift in Attitude to Charter School Privatization
Politicians of all stripes have been extremely reluctant, especially at the national level, to lean into a real discussion of…
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RICH: Teachable moments from the Pittsburgh Shooting
Change begins with discussions in school and at home.
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RAVI: Addressing Inequality in Long Beach Unified Through We The People High School
As an educator and Long Beach resident, I am dismayed to see our school district abdicating its responsibility to serve…
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MATHEWS: The Surprising Rise of High School Teams that Never Cut Anybody
Inspired by Special Olympics, nearly 300,000 teens play for fun, exercise and new friends.
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GREENE: Unregulated Charters Have Made a Mess Out of the Kansas City Ecosystem
All of this is predictable. You cannot run multiple parallel school systems for the same amount of money you used…
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LUECK: How High Schools Shaped American Cities and School Choice Puts That Legacy at Risk
From curricular offerings to extracurricular activities, shared milestones to cultural traditions, high schools have been remarkably consistent across the country…
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EMMANUEL: Eve Ewing Explains Why Some Communities Just Can’t Get over School Closings
If Chicago schools are so bad, why do people fight to keep them from closing?
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JABBAR: Charter Schools’ ‘Uberization’ of Teaching Profession Hurts Kids Too
Charter schools not only dramatically alter education for students and their families, but also for teachers. When charter schools predominate…
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USA TODAY: America’s Teachers: One Day, Not Enough Respect
We found that teachers are worried about more than money. They feel misunderstood, unheard and, above all, disrespected.
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WATTERS: The History of the Future of High School
The problem with American secondary education is not that students haven’t learned the “right skills,” as the Betsy DeVoses of…
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PIPER: Early Childhood Education Yields Big Benefits — Just Not the Ones You Think
Any academic boost from preschool fades out after a few years. Surprisingly, it still has lifelong effects.
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FULLER: Charter Schools Have Unfair Advantages
Traditional public schools do not have the option of choosing only well-behaved students to teach each and every day. We…
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GREENE: The Foundational Fallacy of Charter Schools
You cannot run multiple school districts for the same amount of money you used to spend to operate just one.
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GABOR: When ‘School Choice’ Means the Opposite
The U.S. charter-school movement was meant to stimulate innovation. Instead, it’s enforcing uniformity.
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ISAAC: Larry’s (Quick)Sand Castle
To put us at our ease and deceive us, it identifies him as “a former teacher.”
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SAFIER: Lack of Charter School Accountability Was Baked into the System from the Start
It's part of a pattern that goes back to charter school beginnings in Arizona. The state charter board has always…
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MONTINI: Why I’m Not Buying Gov. Ducey’s Phony Support for Charter School Reform
The governor has had four years to fix the corrupt charter school system. He's done just the opposite.
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DeMATTHEWS and KNIGHT: Texas Needs to Fund Its Public Schools Differently
Texas is a prosperous state, but lawmakers are failing to adequately finance public education and communities and students are suffering…
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ABRAMS: I Want to Be Georgia’s ‘Public Education Governor’
My mother was 8-years-old when she dropped out of her segregated elementary school in Mississippi. And she didn’t plan on…
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PARSONS: Maryland Gubernatorial Candidates Exhibit ‘Gross Irresponsibility’ Regarding Education
Imagine the CEO of a local hospital calling her surgical team together and announcing that recent budget mismanagement has left…
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GREENE: The Promises Charter Schools Don’t Make
Because the term "charter schools" often comes with the word "public" attached, parents can be surprised by some of the…
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LARSEN: Our Next Governor Must Fix Oregon’s Revenue System to Help Schools
As the campaign for governor kicks into high gear, we should look to some key words from one of our…
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