The Common Core Emphasizes Close Reading. Its Critics Should Try That Sometime.

Note the nuance in a press release from the ACT regarding an analysis of the Common Core State Standards based on a survey of 9200 K-12 and college educato

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How Kipp Academy Embraced My Son and His Autism

I have four children and as with all children, their needs are not the same. They need different things at home and the same is true in school. As a charte

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Watering Down Expectations for Students With Disabilities Is Not the Way to Go, New York

Watering Down Expectations for Students With Disabilities Is Not the Way to Go, New York

I believe that most students with disabilities* can and should engage with the same academic content that any other student would receive. Furthermore, I b

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You Can’t Talk About Education Reform Without Talking About Social Justice

In the bubble of the education reform world, everyone is (still) talking about Robert Pondiscio’s essay, The Left’s Drive to Push Conservatives Out of Educ

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Why the Lack of Black Male Educators Isn’t Just a Problem for Black Students

Lately, there has been a clarion call to increase the percentage of Black male teachers in American public schools. Currently, we make up only 2 percent of

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Our Schools Need Edu-Philanthropy’s Dollars and Its Policy Priorities

Is there a meaningful role for philanthropy in our push to improve our public schools? While we may think the answer is a simple one, the Los Angeles Times

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Coffee Break: Third Way’s Lanae Hatalsky on Staying Chill, the Teacher Wars and Her Choice for Hillary’s Running Mate

Lanae Erickson Hatalsky is vice president for the social policy and politics program at Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Lanae’s job is to propo

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Teachers Are Picking Up Where Presidential Candidates Are Falling Short

It was a student who pointed it out to me. “Hey Miss! Why aren’t the presidential candidates talking about our schools?” My sociology students were engaged

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Audacity of Nope: You Want People of Color Until You Don’t

I’d never say conservatives, especially those in education reform, have been cowed into silence. Conservatives tend to run the game, be quick to assume pow

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