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Education Establishment Opinion
Kentucky Governor May Destroy the State’s Entire Public Education System
Kentucky’s Tea Party governor may destroy the entire public education system in the state, Courier Journal columnist Joseph Gerth warned…
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How the Teacher Walkouts Became the Perfect Civics Lesson for My Students
I teach broadcast journalism to high school students in Louisville, Kentucky — the latest on the growing list of states…
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The United States Is Falling Behind Other Nations in Providing Pre-K Schooling
When it comes to early childhood education, the United States needs to step up. Many developed nations now have more…
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Teachers Are Leading the Working-Class Insurgency
Teachers in red-state America are hard at work teaching us all a lesson. The American mythos has always rested on…
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School Vouchers Will Not Help Military Family Children
As a military veteran, I’m honored to have served a country that provides an education for every child. When I…
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25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools
Teacher protests have spread rapidly from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona in recent months. We invited America’s public…
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Teachers Rising Up in Rebellion of ‘Everyday Heroes’
Teachers have reached the end of their rope over decades of austerity budgets that have robbed children of good education.…
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Paid Summer Breaks and Other Common Myths about Teachers
As teachers in several states across the United States protest for higher pay and more funding for public education, lawmakers…
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United Effort of Striking Teachers and Parents Can Raise Pay, School Quality
The strikes of education workers in four states against austerity are of larger significance than just a simple uptick in…
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Cloaking Inequity: New Orfield Book: School Choice Exacerbating Inequality and Segregation
In the 20th century, some African American leaders argued for small selective group of leaders to be educated to lead…
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This Teacher Says She Can’t Afford To Stay On The Job
As Arizona threatens to join school strikes that have shaken up public education around the country, one teacher says her…
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Educators Push Teacher Pay Penalty Into National Spotlight
Since the successful strike in West Virginia, in which teachers and education support professionals pressured Governor Jim Justice to agree…
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The South’s Push to Resegregate Its Schools
North Carolina is the latest state to consider breaking up countywide school systems, endangering districts that are models of racial…
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Teachers across America Are Striking Because Courts Are Shrinking from the School Funding Fight
Teacher strikes in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma manifested growing frustration with state disinvestment in public education over the past…
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Dionne: Teachers’ Revolt Against Policies Gutting Public Institutions
Teacher strikes are highlighting the deterioration of the conditions students face — aging textbooks, crumbling buildings, and reductions in actual…
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The Larger Concerns Behind the Teachers’ Strikes
One demand of the striking Oklahoma teachers has gotten a lot of attention: They want higher salaries. Superficially that demand…
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What the U.S. Could Learn from Canada About Integrating Immigrant Students
In Canadian public schools, the children of new immigrants do as well as native-born children within three years of arriving.…
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Teachers Have Had It. Why They’re Revolting Against Low Pay and Inadequate School Funding.
In several states across the country, teachers are closing down schools in protest.
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You Wanted Your Kids to Be in School Monday, Kentucky Teachers Wanted to Be There Too
Sorrell was among thousands of Kentucky teachers and their supporters who descended on Frankfort on Monday to protest an unpopular…
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Establishment Opinion: Teachers Are Walking Out in Multiple States. Blame GOP Economics.
There’s a revolt beginning among the nation’s schoolteachers, one that could well pick up momentum and spread around the country.…
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Focusing on School Discipline after Parkland Is Unsound Policy
Rolling back discipline reforms that aim to improve student safety and disciplinary fairness is an illogical and inappropriate response to…
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1 Million Reasons to Avoid Private School
Sam Dogen of the Financial Samurai asked his readers Thursday if they’d take $1 million now to send their kids…
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How Independent Teacher Prep Programs Fail Our Most Vulnerable Students
he expansion of charter schools has led to a surge in independent teacher preparation programs, many of which offer narrow,…
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What Parents Should Know Right Now about Online Learning
A review of the research literature reveals what is known and not known about its effectiveness. The report also includes…
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Educator Running for Governor in AZ Outlines His Vision for Public Schools
Educators love gubernatorial candidates with a background connected to our public schools. It increases the likelihood that they understand public…
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