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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
The Fact-Check

Don’t Humiliate Teachers… But Fire the Worst: Does David Denby Realize He’s Agreeing With Reformers?

Matt Barnum
Opinion

Bradford: Maybe It’s Time for Eva Moskowitz’s Critics to Stop Hating and Start Creating

Derrell Bradford
Opinion

Mehlhorn: After Scalia’s Death, 3 Ways the Supreme Court Could Change Course on Education Reform

Dmitri Mehlhorn
Opinion

Whitmire: Why Do Many Big Donors Prefer Charter Schools? (Hint: It’s Not Because They Hate Unions)

Richard Whitmire
Opinion

Haspel: The Right Conversation, But Wrong Conclusion

Elliot Haspel
Opinion

The Real Reason Candidates Aren’t Talking Education in New Hampshire, South Carolina (or Anywhere Else)

Conor P. Williams
Opinion

Campbell Brown: Will Farina’s Failures Cost De Blasio Control of NYC’s Schools?

Campbell Brown
Opinion

Tucker: The ‘Separate and Unequal’ Doctrine is Alive and Well in Detroit’s Terrible Schools. That Needs To Change

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
Opinion

Michael Bloomberg, the Education Candidate?

Richard Whitmire & Andrew J. Rotherham
School Choice 2016

Student Praise for a Chicago High School Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Gabby Dixon
Opinion

Education Phrases Banned From 2016, Part 2: Readers Voice Their Pet-Peeves

The 74 & Bellwether Education Partners
Opinion

Letters to the Editor: Readers React to MLK Column, College Admissions News, and More

The 74
Opinion

Social Entrepreneurship: Connecting the Worlds of Education and Health Care

Richard Barth & Jonathan Jackson
School Choice 2016

Whitmire: The Secret to Building the Next Gen High School? Forget All Your Middle School Successes

Richard Whitmire
Opinion

Sibilia: Flint’s Water Crisis, Failing Schools, and the Lines That Divide Us

Rebecca Sibilia
Opinion

For 14 Months Now, I’ve Begged NYC to Help My Son’s Failing School — and No One Will Listen

Jonathan Rudolph
Opinion

Bradford: Have All Those ‘White Moderates’ Martin Luther King, Jr. Decried From Jail Become Today’s Anti-School Choice Progressives?

Derrell Bradford
The Friedrichs Case

Mehlhorn: How the Unions Lost Three Swing Votes and Pushed the Supreme Court Towards Historic Friedrichs Ruling

Dmitri Mehlhorn
Opinion

Viewpoint: Professor Responds to Article About Minnesota School Integration and Charter Autonomy

Myron Orfield
WA Charters

Actions Louder Than Words: Why Washington Lawmakers Must Save State’s Charter Schools

Lisa Macfarlane
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