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In January 2013, just before Bill de Blasio was sworn in for his first term as New York City’s mayor, a reporter asked him what he wanted his legacy to be.

There’s something depressingly familiar about the privileged pushback we’re seeing in Massachusetts around the ballot measure to lift the cap on charter sc

Ask any public school parent—including me—about what happens when your child is in the earliest elementary grades, and you may get an earful about what is

Well, folks, we’re 288 days into the worst election year of all time but we’ve finally got some answers on education that will knock anything else going on

Three recent experiences have served to remind me how much I miss—and how much the country and the cause of better education were diminished by the loss of

People loosely use the term “good schools and diversity” without looking into it or researching what that means. When you get below the surface, it means a

Opt-Out. Testing. Charters. Common Core. Closings. Accountability. Standards. Teacher Tenure. Teacher Pay. School Spending. If you’re in the education bubb

States across the country are working to develop their new school accountability systems as required by the new federal education law, the Every Student Su

In early October technicians working the master controls at local TV stations across Massachusetts will unleash a torrent of education issue ads—the first