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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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commentary

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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commentary

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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commentary

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
Coronavirus

Social Distancing Without a Social Safety Net: How Shutdowns Came to My Child’s Fragile School Community

Beth Hawkins
Coronavirus

Lake: As Schools Shift to Virtual Learning, Educators Worry That Online Instruction Is Inequitable. But No Learning at All Is Worse

Robin Lake
Florida

Brown: In South Florida, Aviation Partnerships Are Bringing Career Education Into the Modern Age for Both Students and Adults

Leslie Brown
Curriculum

Curriculum Case Study: How a More Rigorous Curriculum Got Students in a Rural Tennessee District to Stop Skipping School

Sarah Aitken, Drayton Hawkins & Brittany Higgins Pittman
District of Columbia

Long: To Improve Our World, Social Justice Must Be at the Heart of What We Teach. We’re Building a School in Washington to Do Just That

Myron Long
Coronavirus

Adams: NYC School Admissions, Attendance and Coronavirus — How Parents Forced the City to Change Its Applications Policy

Alina Adams
Tennessee

A High-Poverty High School in Tennessee Is Using National Student Clearinghouse Data to Fuel a Revolution in Smart College Counseling

Richard Whitmire
Opinion

‘Learning Science’ Is Critical to Understanding How Students Think, but a New Report Shows That Most Future Teachers Don’t Know It. Here Are 3 Top Takeaways

Benjamin Riley
SXSW

Reed & Rosenbaum: 10 Reflections From 10 Years of SXSW EDU, as Conference Gears Up in Austin

Ron Reed & Greg Rosenbaum
Opinion

Hughes: New $10 Million Grant Program Seeks to Build Better Options for Middle and High School Students With Mild and Moderate Disabilities

Bob Hughes
4Fams

Adams: A Revolutionary School Zoning Plan That Can Increase Diversity, Boost Funding and Make Parents’ Lives Easier

Alina Adams
Opinion

Enlow: Education Reform Is Like ‘Battlestar Galactica’ — to Survive, Our Small Band Must Stick Together Against an Imposing, Relentless Foe

Robert C. Enlow
4Fams

A Mom’s View: Two Generations of School Choice Have Enabled My Newark Family to Meet the Challenges of Dyslexia and Thrive

Generra Rodriguez
Instagram

Lee: Black History Demands We Break Down Barriers and Build Up Kids. How One School Network in Newark Answers the Call

Dominique Lee
Curriculum

Curriculum Case Study: How One Rural Tennessee School District With 25 Percent Student Literacy and Nearly a Quarter of Kids Living in Poverty Is Turning the Tide

Shawn Kimble
Opinion

Jeb Bush: Students Need Robust CTE Pathways to Fill America’s Skills Gap. Here Are 3 Things States Must Do to Make This Happen

Jeb Bush
Opinion

Bertelli: Charter Schools Lose When They Don’t Remind People Why They Exist in the First Place. California Proves the Point

Chris Bertelli
Opinion

Rotherham: Phonics. Whole Language. Balanced Literacy. The Problem Isn’t That We Don’t Know How to Teach Reading — It’s Politics

Andrew J. Rotherham
Opinion

In Defense of ‘Paternalism’: Why Choice Schools Need to Get Better at Grappling With the Family Lives of Their Toughest-Case Students

Naomi Schaefer Riley
Maryland

Goldson: In Prince George’s County, Maryland, a Workforce Development Model for Our 21st Century Students

Monica Goldson
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