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We Should Pay More for the Best Teachers

Yglesias: Research shows there’s a lot of electoral upside to supporting teacher pay that is based on performance rather than pure seniority.

Matthew Yglesias
Author: Matthew Yglesias
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Connecticut Charters Break Through in Historic Legislative Session

Greenberg-Ellis and Pimentel: With approval of four new schools, plus added funding and benefits, lawmakers showed increased support for charters.

Rebecca Greenberg-Ellis & Lucas Pimentel
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Lessons from Charters Where Every Student Graduates, Most of Them With a Plan

Cobb: Charter school students have racked up more than a billion in scholarships and nearly 100% acceptance to college or postsecondary programs.

Darryl Cobb, Charter School Growth Fund
Author: Darryl Cobb
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Race, Income and Why Some Democrats Have the Luxury of Opposing School Choice

Kisida: Many critics resist choice politically while exercising it for their own kids through private schools or expensive homes in 'good' districts.

Brian Kisida
Union Report

Analysis: When the National Education Association Fights With Its Own Breakaway Locals

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Petrilli: The Child Poverty Rate Plummeted After Welfare Reform. What That Means for Education

Michael J. Petrilli
Opinion

Mehlhorn: The Top Court in CA Declines Teacher Tenure Case, as Dissenting Justices Write for History

Dmitri Mehlhorn
Union Report

Analysis — When Teachers Unions Become The Man: Why Union Employees Are Fighting for Better Contracts

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Matus: John Oliver’s Charter School Critique and the Left’s Growing Divide Over School Choice

Ron Matus
Opinion

Smith: A Few Thoughts About John Oliver’s Bleak, Unrepresentative Sample of Public Charter Schools

Nelson Smith
Opinion

Jeremiah Grace: Connecticut Charter Schools Celebrate ‘Miraculous’ 20th Anniversary

Jeremiah Grace
Union Report

Analysis: Act Locally, Think Nationally — The NEA’s Plan to Capture America’s Hearts & Minds

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Cynthia Tucker Haynes: How a Backlash Against Elites Became an Attack on School Standards

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
Opinion

John Deasy: Bridging the Chasm Between the World and Me — My Promise to Ta-Nehisi Coates

John Deasy
Opinion

Teaching Trump: How Do You Talk to Students About ‘Character’ When Donald Keeps Rewriting the Rules?

Allison Crean Davis
Opinion

Brown: Mayor De Blasio’s Shameful Claim That NYC Students Only Perform Well Thanks to Test Prep

Campbell Brown
Opinion

Campbell Brown: NYC Charter Schools — Surging Parent Demand vs. Reluctant City Leaders

Campbell Brown
Union Report

Analysis: Los Angeles Teachers Head Is Ready to Incite A ‘State Crisis’ If Union Demands Are Not Met

Mike Antonucci
Opinion

Opinion: What Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Evaluation

Maryann Woods-Murphy
Opinion

Cunningham: Why True Progressives Should Push Massachusetts to Lift Cap on Public Charter Schools

Peter Cunningham
Opinion

Sedlis: Dissatisfied Parents, Weak Renewal Schools…NYC Has Some Work to Do For Students

Jenny Sedlis
Opinion

Opinion: What Conservative Education Reformers Have in Common with Black Lives Matter

Chris Tessone
Opinion

Analysis: How the 2016 Republican Party Platform Guts Title IX Enforcement for Sexual Assault Victims

Hailly T.N. Korman
Union Report

Analysis: 3 Things America’s Biggest Teachers Union Will Expect From a Clinton White House

Mike Antonucci
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