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California

Magnet Schools for This Mami: Forcing LAUSD to Work for My Daughter

I'm not bragging when I say, “My daughter is smart.” I started reading to her when she was a newborn. At four months old, she could turn the pages on a book as read to her. At 18 months, she was...

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Math

If I'd Had Common Core I Probably Wouldn't Suck at Math Now

I’m terrible at math. In seventh grade, I became aware of my poor math preparation when I entered a team math competition against other Catholic schools in the Chicagoland area. At least half of the...

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School Choice

Helping Charter Schools Find Student Success Beyond Academics

We recognize the importance of education, but what many may not recognize is the importance of certain skills and habits that are not commonly taught in today’s education system. In an era of...

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public schools

Getting the PARCC Conversation Out of ‘Park’

We’ve finally started to receive our student-level results here in Colorado from the first year of PARCC tests, which were given way back in the halcyon days when Donald Trump was just a reality TV...

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Standards

We Can't Do Right by Kids If White Liberals Like Tim Wise Are Confused About Testing

There’s a lot of B.S. out there in the world about standards and standardized testing and it’s gotten to the point where for many liberals, misinformation is taken as truth. For example, what I heard...

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School Choice

Pressing Reset in Louisiana: I'm Optimistic But I Still Have a Lot of Questions

For the year ahead, I am optimistic and excited about educational gains moving forward in my city and state of New Orleans, Louisiana. A movement for getting more parents engaged is slowly picking up...

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