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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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Campbell Brown: De Blasio’s Vision Not Nearly Radical Enough to Fix NYC Schools

Campbell Brown
On the Campaign Trail

Colorado Dispatch: Why Hillary Clinton Is Right to Focus on Student Debt

Crisanta Duran
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Opinion: In Missouri, a Fight to Override a Governor’s Veto — and to Rescue Poor Kids from Failing Schools

Dmitri Mehlhorn
WA Charters

Opinion: Why Washington’s Supreme Court Decision on Charters Threatens America’s Choice Movement

Gerard Robinson
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Opinion: The Conversations We Don’t Have About Struggling Students

Seth Litt
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Opinion: Liberals Push to Correct Inequality — Just Not If It Involves Opening Up Our Neighborhood Schools

Conor P. Williams
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Eva Moskowitz: Student Performance Is a Mirror

Eva S. Moskowitz
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Whitmire: Reformers Must Move Faster to Close Failing Charters, or Risk Backlash Bigger Than ‘Opt-Out’

Richard Whitmire
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Tucker: Stripping Accountability from NCLB Betrays the Civil Rights Struggle

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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Opinion: The Common Core Has Been a Game Changer for Military Schools (and Military Families)

Mary Scott Hunter
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Opinion: Why Improving America’s Schools Must Begin with a Plan to Boost Youth Literacy

Michael Lombardo
Opinion

Opinion — Forgotten In the Charter School Debate: Educator Freedom Is at the Core of Classroom Innovation

Nina Rees
NOLA Schools — 10 Years After Katrina

Opinion: We Owe It To Our Kids to Replicate New Orleans’ Education Turnaround in Other Struggling Cities

Neerav Kingsland
NOLA Schools — 10 Years After Katrina

In Praise of My City, and My Students: One New Orleans Educator Marvels Over a Decade of Progress

Jamar McKneely
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Review: In Dale Russakoff’s “The Prize,” an Urgent Education Catastrophe Overflowing with Culprits and Caveats

Conor P. Williams
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New York Principal: Make No Mistake, Common Core Is Raising the Bar In My District

Kim Hardwick
The 2015 NH Education Summit

Opinion: Jeb Bush Swings Big on Pre-K at the Ed Summit — and Misses

Conor P. Williams
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Common Core’s Silent Majority: As Unions and GOP Candidates Bash Standards, Americans Remain Supportive

Paul E. Peterson & Paul E. Peterson
NOLA Schools — 10 Years After Katrina

Tucker: Time to Cheer – and Double Down on – NOLA’s Ed Breakthrough

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
The 2015 NH Education Summit

Opinion: Primary Politics, “Local Control” and a Swift Sprint Away from Standards at the GOP Education Summit

Derrell Bradford
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