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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
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Mehlhorn: Student Rights, Judicial Precedent and Why 2016 Could See a Profound Shift in Education Law

Dmitri Mehlhorn
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Williams: The Fight to Boost Student Literacy Is Happening Years Too Late

Conor P. Williams
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One Way to Boost Student Success: Get Serious About Sex Education — and Teach the IUD

Michael J. Petrilli
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Rees: How ESSA Elevates Public Charter Schools In Its Push For Higher Standards

Nina Rees
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I Kept My Little Girl Out of Kindergarten — and It Made My Family Stronger

Rachel Jardine
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Opinion: Even as ESSA Backpedals on Federal Accountability, Charters Set Tougher Standards

Greg Richmond
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Diversity, Desegregation and Why Affluent Brooklyn Parents Should Embrace Their School’s Rezoning

Molly Vollman Makris & Allison Roda
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Williams: Education Politics vs. Practice (Or Why So Many VERY BIG IDEAS Rarely Make It to the Classroom)

Conor P. Williams
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First-Person: One Newark Mother Explains How School Choice Saved Her Kids — and Why She’s Sharing Their Story With NJ Lawmakers

Rasheedah Dollar
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New York Votes to Delay Tying Scores to Teacher Evals: Inside Cuomo’s Perfect Political Storm

Bill Hammond
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Chris Cerf Reviews ‘The Prize’: The Book Was More Balanced Than the Book Tour

Chris Cerf
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Assessing the Assessments: What a Survey of America’s Top Educators Revealed About Year-End Tests

Katherine Bassett
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Tucker: Research Confirms Bloomberg Was Right to Close NYC’s Worst Schools. Are You Listening, Mayor de Blasio?

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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NCLB Opinion: As Congress Shifts Power to States, Time to Realize the Fight for Better Schools Is Now Up To Us

Robin Lake
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From Wall Street to the South Bronx: Taking a Charter Fellowship and Changing a Community

Aasimah Navlakhi
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Williams: Why Progressives Should Fear, Conservatives Should Hate and Obama Should Veto the NCLB Rewrite

Conor P. Williams
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Opinion: Recess Consultants? “Microaggressions?” Just the Latest Signs of Entitlement Overrunning Our Schools

Brian Russell
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Opinion: A Pittsburgh Travesty, as Suburban Schools Reject the Displaced Kids of Wilkinsburg

Jonathan Cetel
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Kingsland: China Welcomes America’s Best Schools — While Massachusetts Outlaws Them?

Neerav Kingsland
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Opinion: Weingarten’s Dishonest Charter Attack, and the Politics of Exploiting Violence Against Minority Kids

Derrell Bradford
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