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Matt Barnum is a senior staff writer at 社区黑料.

Why Even Top Teachers May Struggle in Low-Performing Schools

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Have Democrats Lost Voters鈥� Trust on Education? Not According to Most Polls

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Who Gets Access to School Data? A Case Study in How Privacy, Politics & Budget Pressures Can Affect Education Research

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Exclusive: Too Hot to Learn: Records Show Nearly a Dozen of the Biggest School Districts Lack Air Conditioning

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74 Interview: Harvard Researcher David Deming Takes the Long View on Head Start, Integration

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To Test or Not to Test: As Tax Credit Scholarships Expand, Questions About Accountability and Outcomes

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Even After Colorado鈥檚 Teacher Evaluation 鈥楻evolution,鈥� Fewer Than One in 1,000 Rated Ineffective

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社区黑料 Interview: Ulrich Boser on Understanding the Science of Learning

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The School Discipline Revolution: How Policy and Rhetoric Outstrip Hard Evidence

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New Studies Suggest Choice of Curriculum and Textbooks Can Make a Big Difference for Students

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New Study: D.C. Scholarship Students Scored Worse in Math, Particularly in Elementary School

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Report: 5 Ways to Address Teacher Shortages 鈥� Where They Really Exist

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New Study: 3 Ways to Tell If a Charter School Will Struggle Before It Even Opens Its Doors

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A Form of Professional Development That Research Shows Might Actually Help Teachers: Coaching

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5 Things We Now Know About Teacher Diversity: What Researcher Constance Lindsay Has Found About Race in School

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The Power of One: New Research Shows Black Students See Big Benefits From a Single Black Teacher

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School Equity Lawsuits Face Setbacks: Have Judges Closed the Courthouse Door to Students?

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New York Times Misuses Their Data When Linking School Quality to Home Prices, Researchers Say

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The Political Parallels and Contradictions of the School Choice, Food Choice 鈥� Er, Food Stamps 鈥� Debate

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Where Education Research, Politics & Policy Intersect: 3 States Reveal How Data Help Shape Their ESSA Plans

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New Research May Build Discrimination Case for Widely Used Principals Exam

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Impact of Weaker Unions in Wisconsin and Other States Much Clearer for Teachers Than Students

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Could the Every Student Succeeds Act Break the Link Between Poverty and Bad School Ratings?

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Exclusive Data: City Schools vs. Suburban Schools, See Where Security Officers Outnumber the Counselors

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Analysis: Charter Schools Spend More on Administration 鈥� but It Might Not Be Bad for Kids

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Kansas Supreme Court Rules School Funding System Unconstitutional 鈥� Again

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社区黑料 Interview: Houston Chronicle Reporter on How He Uncovered the Year鈥檚 Biggest Education Scandal

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Trump Doubles Down on School Choice, but Plan Likely Faces Uphill Battle in Congress

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Online Charter Schools Have Poor Track Record, but They Can Reach Places Other Schools Can鈥檛

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Hard to Game, Easy to Use: Chronic Absenteeism Gains Ground as New ESSA Measure of Student Success

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Study: Weakening Tenure in Louisiana May Have Caused Thousands of Teachers to Quit

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The Certification Maze: Why Teachers Who Cross State Lines Can鈥檛 Find Their Way Back to the Classroom

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What If Every Struggling Student Had a Tutor? It Won鈥檛 Be Cheap, but It Might Be Worth It

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社区黑料 Interview: Kirabo Jackson on the Importance of School Spending, 鈥楽oft Skills鈥� and Teacher Quality

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社区黑料 Interview: Denver Schools Chief Talks 鈥楾rump Effect,鈥� School Closures and Teacher Performance Pay

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From a Sea of Senate Questions: 6 Key Takeaways in Betsy DeVos鈥檚 Answers

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8 Lingering Questions to Confront After the Failure of Obama鈥檚 $7B School Turnaround Plan

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Teachers Have to Wait 25 Years to See Pension Benefits, New Study Says, But Is the Fix Really Better?

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Some Private Schools That May Benefit From Trump鈥檚 Voucher Plan Are Weak on Discrimination Rules

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Barnum: The Growth vs. Proficiency Debate and Why Al Franken Raised a Boring but Critical Issue

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Barnum: Obama鈥檚 Education Legacy Mirrors the Rest of His Presidency 鈥� Accomplished but Polarizing

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Fact-Checking the DeVos Hearing: What the Data Shows About Michigan’s Charter Schools

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3 Big Problems in How Schools Hire Teachers 鈥� and What Research Says About How to Solve Them

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Inside the Fight to Save Detroit鈥檚 Schools: Betsy DeVos鈥檚 Campaign for Choice Over Local Control

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Barnum: Education Myths to Leave Behind in 2016 鈥� 8 Dearly Held Beliefs That Aren鈥檛 Necessarily True

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Yes, Poor Students Get Worse Teachers, but That Doesn鈥檛 Explain Most of the Achievement Gap

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Betsy DeVos Promises to 鈥淢ake Education Great Again鈥� 鈥� but When Was It Great?

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Is School Segregation Getting Worse? By Some Measures, No 鈥� but It鈥檚 Not Getting Any Better

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12 Things to Know About School Segregation 鈥� and How Integration Helps Students

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74 Interview: Louisiana Schools Chief John White on ESSA, School Closures and Local Control in NOLA

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Oklahoma鈥檚 Teacher of the Year Makes Just $35,419 鈥� and He Won鈥檛 Get a Big Raise Anytime Soon

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The Cult of Finland: What American Schools CAN鈥橳 Learn From International Comparisons

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Betsy Devos, Trump鈥檚 EdSec Pick, Promoted Virtual Schools Despite Dismal Results

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The New White Flight: Research Shows Some North Carolina Charters Are Making Segregation Worse

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Analysis: How Betsy DeVos Could Scramble the Ideology and Politics of Education Reform

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Vouchers Could Be the Big Winner in Trump鈥檚 School Choice Plan, but Is That a Victory for Students?

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Work Inside President Trump鈥檚 Ed Department? No Way, Say Some Policy Experts and Advocates

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The Real Threat to Common Core May Come Not From a Trump White House but From Many Statehouses

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Trump鈥檚 Education Paradox: Return Schools to Local Control 鈥� By Expanding Federal Power?

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Oklahoma Voters Reject Initiative to Raise Teacher Pay

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Eleven Things You Might Not Know About Teacher Retention and Turnover 鈥� but Should

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Black Kids in Michigan Often Stuck in Classes With More Than 40 Kids, New Study Reveals

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鈥楤est鈥� High Schools May Not Be as Good as You Think 鈥� What That Means for Parents, Policymakers

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What Research Says About Mass. Charter Cap Debate: From Graduation Rates to School Funding

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Research Shows Students Can Benefit When a School Closes 鈥� but Only If There Are Better Ones to Attend

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50 Years Later, What America Still Hasn鈥檛 Learned From the Coleman Report

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社区黑料 Fact-Check: Are Teachers Really Burning Out Because of Tougher Tests and Evaluations?

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The Yale Study on Pre-K Teachers and Bias Didn鈥檛 Find What You Think It Found

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74 Interview: Jeb Bush 鈥� Yes on Choice and Standards, No on Trump and Clinton

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Analysis: Hillary Clinton Is Right About Head Start

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Three Incredibly Obvious Reasons Fewer People Want to Be Teachers: Study

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New Research: Chicago Teacher Eval Pilot Moved Out Struggling Teachers, Kept Stronger Ones

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74 Interview: Former L.A. Superintendent John Deasy Previews New Initiative to Rethink Juvenile Prisons

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Reality Check: Are the Education Changes Demanded By Connecticut Judge Even Possible?

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社区黑料 Interview: Harvard Education School Dean Jim Ryan Talks School Funding, Vergara and Ed Research

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8 Things We Learned From a Big New Texas Study on Charter Schools and Students鈥� Future Income

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If It Cannot Be Wise, It Must Be Sensible: Judge鈥檚 Withering Words on Connecticut鈥檚 Public Schools

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Connecticut鈥檚 Critical Deadline: Judge Says State Must Fix Public Education in Six Months

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The Problem With Homework: Not Much Evidence on Whether It Works

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74 Interview: Researcher Susan Dynarski on Boston Charters, Student Poverty, and Data in Education

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When Public Charter Schools Are Private: Labor Rulings Highlight Often Blurred Line

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Why Teacher Pay Matters: Recruitment and Retention Can Improve Results

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New Study Shows Ohio Virtual Schools Are Failing Their Students 鈥� Even as Thousands More Enroll

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Researchers: No Consensus Against Using Test Scores in Teacher Evaluations, Contra Democratic Platform

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Does Trump Nomination Mean End of GOP In School Reform? It鈥檚 Complicated

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Review: Paul Tough鈥檚 Impoverished Agenda for Helping Children Succeed

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Exclusive: Amendment Adds Imaginary Testing Standard to Democratic Education Platform

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Putting the 鈥楢chievable Over the Ambitious鈥�: The Problem When Teachers Grade Themselves

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Which Comes First, Good Teachers or a Good School? Researchers Say Yes

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Ohio Study Latest to Show Poor Voucher Results: 7 Theories Dissect The Trend

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Several HS Math Textbooks Not Aligned With Common Core, Ratings Group Finds

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Christie Plan for Funding NJ Schools Widely Criticized; Cami Anderson Warns of 鈥楧evastating Impact鈥�

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California in the Age of ESSA: Can Schools Be Held Accountable Without Real Consequences

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The Purge: California Leaves Researchers (and Policymakers) in the Dark by Gutting Education Data

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How California Gov. Jerry Brown Fought the Federal Government on Education Policy 鈥� and Won

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Analysis: Charter Groups Call for Reforms of Underperforming Virtual Schools

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A Teacher Satisfaction Gap? New Study Shows Teachers of Color Less Happy in Their Schools

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The Exit Exam Paradox: Did States Raise Standards So High They Then Had to Lower the Bar to Graduate?

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Study: The Real Reason Some People Don鈥檛 Like ObamaCore, Er, Common Core

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What Happens When a School Gets a Failing Grade? It Gets Better

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New Map: School Funding Inequality, Often Measured By State, Is Far Worse Nationally Than You Think

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Mississippi, Desegregating: What the Research Shows About the Academic Value of Integrating Schools

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Study Shows New Orleans Students More Likely to Stay in Same School After City鈥檚 Education Reforms

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NY Teacher Wins Court Case Against State鈥檚 Evaluation System, But May Appeal to Set Wider Precedent

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12th-graders鈥� Federal Tests Scores Dip in Math and Reading While More Manage to Graduate

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Study: No Child Left Behind Improved Teacher Attendance in Struggling Schools

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The Merit Pay Myth: Why the Conventional Wisdom About Paying Teachers Is Wrong

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In New York City, Teachers Cheated to Help Students Graduate 鈥� and it Worked

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社区黑料 Interview: Prof. Matt Delmont on How Northern Whites Used Busing to Derail School Integration

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The Research Missing From the L.A. Charter Debate? 3 Key Studies Show Gains for Students

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Washington State鈥檚 Schools Chief Is So Fed Up About Underfunded Schools He Might Run for Governor

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Clinton Says She Wouldn鈥檛 Opt Out, But Her Common Core Critique Hints at a Rebuke of Obama, Duncan

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Are Charter Schools a Cause of 鈥� or a Solution to 鈥� Segregation?

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Report: Career and Technical Education Programs Can Boost Graduation, Wages

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VIDEO: New Research Shows True Toll Cheating Scandal Took on Atlanta鈥檚 Most Vulnerable Students

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Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis

Matt Barnum & Naomi Nix

Chicago Public Schools 101: The Politics, Passion and Hopeless Financials Behind a System in Crisis

Matt Barnum & Naomi Nix

5 Key Lessons from the Successes (and Failures) of President Obama鈥檚 Teacher Evaluation Reforms

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Connecticut School Funding on Trial: After A Decade, Equity Gets Its Day in Court

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Exclusive: Education Cities and GreatSchools to Admit Flaw in Statewide Rankings of School Inequality

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Exclusive 鈥� Data Shows 3 of the 5 Biggest School Districts Hire More Security Officers Than Counselors

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New Research Shows How a Federal School Turnaround Program Backfired in North Carolina

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74 Interview: Nate Bowling, WA鈥檚 Teacher of the Year, on the Surprising Reaction to His 鈥楥onversation鈥� Essay

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John Kasich鈥檚 Education Record: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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UCLA Report on Charter School Discipline Makes Important Points 鈥� But Has Some Important Limitations

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Feeling Confused by The Bern? 4 Theories on What Sanders Actually Thinks About Charter Schools

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From Common Core to Cheating Scandals, 5 Studies that Can Help Improve Education Policy

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Group Pushes Broader Approach for Helping Kids 鈥� But Can it Build a Broad Coalition?

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74 Interview: Denver鈥檚 Mayor on Testing, Hillary Clinton and America鈥檚 Fastest-Growing Urban School District

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From Arne Duncan on Down: 23 Critical Education Questions for the Presidential Candidates

Carolyn Phenicie & Matt Barnum

Opinion: Where Linda Darling-Hammond’s Bold Claims on Testing, Teachers, and New Orleans Go Wrong

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New Research: States That Chose (or Were Forced) to Spend More Money on Poor Schools Saw Student Gains

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The Happiness Factor: Research Moves Beyond Test Scores to Find Strongest Teachers

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Don鈥檛 Humiliate Teachers鈥� But Fire the Worst: Does David Denby Realize He鈥檚 Agreeing With Reformers?

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Have We Built a Better Test? 9 Ways 鈥楴ext Generation Assessments鈥� Are Different 鈥� and the Same

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Twice as Many Schools Pushing Integration, Versus 10 Years Ago 鈥� Based on Class Rather than Race

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The Fact-Check: Not Every State Takeover of a Troubled School District Deserves an F

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Research Suggests D.C.鈥檚 Tough Teacher Evaluation System Helped Students. 7 Big Lessons for Other Cities

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A Radically Sensible Proposal for Training Teachers: Make it Easier to Enter, Harder to Stay

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鈥淎 National Disgrace鈥�: Explaining the Past, Present, and Future of Detroit Public Schools

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EdBuild: How a New Player in the Ed Reform Game Is Skipping the Usual Battle Lines to Focus on Funding

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New Research: 3 Insights Into Molding Better Student Teachers

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The Detroit 鈥楽ick-Out鈥� Makes a Valid Point: Crumbling Schools Shown to Hurt Learning

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New Center for American Progress Report: Tougher Standards Strengthen Student Achievement

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No, Gov. Cuomo Didn鈥檛 Kill Test-Based Teacher Evals. In Fact, His 鈥楳oratorium鈥� Could Fuel More Testing

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School Choice Advocates Celebrate as Department of Justice Closes Investigation of Milwaukee Vouchers

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Ohio Fixed Its Scandal-Plagued Charter Schools, Right? Not So Fast

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New York Times Gives Credence to Conservatives’ Common Core Delusion

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We Asked the Experts: 8 Common (but Worthless) Education Phrases That Are Banned in 2016

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The Duncan Era: Assessing a Tenure That Drove Swift Change 鈥� and Sharp Backlash

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The Fact-Check: Why John Merrow鈥檚 Misleading DC Rant Ignores Facts, Research and the Full Truth

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What Economic Recovery? Analysis Finds Many States Spending Less on Schools Than Before Recession

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Denver Study Shows Simplifying Enrollment Drove More Disadvantaged Students to Sign Up for Charter Schools

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New Report Grades Best (and Worst) Cities for School Choice. Where Does Your Town Rank?

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Boston Charters Post Huge Test Gains, But Discipline Debate Could Hinder Expansion

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Q&A: State Senator (and Former Principal) Mike Johnston, on Advancing Colorado Education Reform

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Closing Bad NYC Schools Helped Next Generation of Students: 5 Takeaways from Groundbreaking Report

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Hillary Clinton Reality Check: With NCLB Rewrite, Next President鈥檚 Education Platform Is Likely Irrelevant

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2 New Reports Show That We Really Don鈥檛 Have a Great Way to Evaluate Teachers

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Fact-Checking Clinton on Charter Students: She Misses the Big Picture 鈥� but Also Has a Point

Matt Barnum

The Milwaukee GOP Debate: In the Birthplace of School Choice, Will Free Market Talk Extend to K-12?

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Fact-Check: Hey Education Pundits, Stop Writing Early Obituaries for School Improvement Grants

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New Report Highlights Teacher Eval Paradox: High Ratings Across the Board, But Growing Backlash

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The War Over Evaluating Teachers鈥擶here it Went Right and How it Went Wrong

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Study: Online Charter Schools Not Making the Grade

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Obama Vows to Reduce Testing 鈥� But Doing So May Be Harder than it Seems

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Beware the NAEP Overreactions: 4 Reasons Why Education Pundits Should Rein in the Rhetoric This Week

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How Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and the Far Right’s Bizarre NCLB Strategy May Actually Save Federal Education Role

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Why Arizona Parents Are Legally Not Allowed to Opt Their Kids Out of Testing

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Research Shows That 鈥� Education Journalists Don鈥檛 Always Use Research All That Well

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John King鈥檚 Common Core Education: What Getting Schooled in NY Will Mean for His Tenure as Ed Sec

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Ohio Legislators Push Through Charter Reform Law, But Fixes Hinge on Troubled Ed Department

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New Report: Schools Pay a Premium for Experienced Teachers But It May Not Boost Teacher Quality

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Ohio鈥檚 Charter School Disaster: How Big Profits and Pay-to-Play Operators Have Derailed Reform

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What if No Child Left Behind Worked and Nobody Realized it? Blame the Media.

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Resisting School Integration: A Brooklyn Case Study in Scared Parents and Bad Data

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Fact-Check: Are Washington鈥檚 Charters Harming the State鈥檚 Traditional Public Schools?

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A Nashville Charter Showdown Over a Book Assignment Sparks a Social Media Frenzy

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New Research: Telling Parents Their School Is Bad Doesn鈥檛 Help If They Don鈥檛 Have Better Options

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Fact-Check: Just How Many Tenured Teachers Are Fired Each Year Anyway? (Hint: Not Many)

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A NYT Contributor Attacks the 鈥楳yth鈥� of New Orleans鈥� School Progress After Katrina. She鈥檚 Wrong

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Separating Fact from Fiction at the Education Summit: What Research Confirms (and Disproves) About the Rhetoric

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Q&A: New Orleans Education Expert Doug Harris Walks Through His Research Showing a Decade of Student Gains

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NH Summit: Carly Fiorina Decries Federal Education Bureaucracy, Says It’s Killing School Innovation

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Actually, Key and Peele, We Need to Treat Pro Athletes More Like Teachers

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New study: Ignoring teacher performance in layoffs hurts kids

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Inside New Hampshire鈥檚 Common Core Showdown: Will Gov. Hassan鈥檚 Veto Embolden the Critics?

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Fact-Checking All Those Charter Critics Who Snatched Defeat from Jaws of New Orleans’ Victory

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Inside the New TNTP Research: Is Teacher Training Just An Expensive Waste of Time?

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“I Didn’t Deserve My Diploma:” One Brave New York City Teen Blows the Whistle on Her School

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Normandy High, By the Numbers: Inside Michael Brown鈥檚 School, a Snapshot of Staggering Inequality

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Video: Dr. Howard Fuller Talks School Choice, New Orleans and the Future of the Reform Movement

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New Site Grades 70,000 Schools Using Same Standards. Want to See How Yours Ranked?

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Opinion: AFT Backs Hillary More on Hope than on Hard Evidence

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The Fact-Check: No Vox, All the Good Schools Are NOT in Rich Neighborhoods

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Arne Duncan鈥檚 Wrong Turn on Reform: How Federal Dollars Fueled the Testing Backlash

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Raising The Bar Might Bar Too Many When It Comes To Teacher Certification Tests

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New Report Details Why More American Charter Schools Don’t Offer Pre-K (and How to Change That)

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Why the NAACP Is (Mostly) Right to Champion No Child Left Behind

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Too Many States Don鈥檛 Fund Schools Fairly 鈥� and That鈥檚 a Big Problem

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