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The War That Wasn’t: A Year Af...

Sep 13, 2018 by

The War That Wasn’t: A Year After Its Much-Hyped Launch, the NAACP’s Push for a Charter School Moratorium Has Run Out of Steam

Beth Hawkins – Social media, livestreams, and heated debates: Repeated calls for a moratorium on new charter schools were among...

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New Study: Suspending Students...

Aug 29, 2018 by

New Study: Suspending Students for Minor Infractions Like Cursing Hurts Kids but Benefits Nobody

By Mark Keierleber – Schools are increasingly suspending children for minor infractions like profanity, hurting their academic...

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Facing a ‘Really Big Issue,’ S...

Aug 24, 2018 by

Facing a ‘Really Big Issue,’ Senators Push for First Federal Survey of the Condition of U.S. Schools Since 1995

Carolyn Phenicie – Senators added language to the pending U.S. Education Department spending bill that would require the...

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LeBron James’s New School Has ...

Aug 16, 2018 by

LeBron James’s New School Has Bikes, Chromebooks, and, More Important, a Flexible School District and an Independent Teachers Union

Mike Antonucci’s – If you follow education issues at all — or any kind of news, really — you know that basketball superstar...

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NYC Autism Charter School Solv...

Aug 6, 2018 by

NYC Autism Charter School Solves for Complex Learners With Intense Dedication & Commitment — Personalized Learning at Its Best

Robin Lake – This essay was originally published on the CRPE website, part of a 25th anniversary series re-examining...

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Scott Walker Crushed Wisconsin...

Jul 19, 2018 by

Scott Walker Crushed Wisconsin’s Teachers Union. Can He Win a Third Term Against Its Superintendent of Schools?

Elections in Wisconsin have tended toward the rough-and-tumble in recent years, a reflection of the state’s jagged partisan divide....

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25 International Teachers Caug...

Jul 9, 2018 by

25 International Teachers Caught in Immigration Bureaucracy Forced to Leave Country

By Mario Koran – Just days before the July 4th holiday, 25 international teachers whom Baltimore City Public Schools recruited...

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Anxiety Looms for Thousands of...

Jun 27, 2018 by

Anxiety Looms for Thousands of Migrant Teachers as Trump Administration Pushes ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement of Visa Program

Mario Koran – Pedro Terán knew what he was getting into. Terán, 33, was living in Saltillo, Mexico, two years ago when his...

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Exit Interview: Camden’s Paymo...

Jun 18, 2018 by

Exit Interview: Camden’s Paymon Rouhanifard Reflects on 5 Years of Surging Student Achievement, Expanding Parental Choice in One of NJ’s Poorest Districts

Emmeline Zhao – When Paymon Rouhanifard took over as superintendent of Camden City School District in 2013, 23 of the city’s 26...

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The California Teachers Associ...

Jun 12, 2018 by

The California Teachers Association Slashes Budget by More Than $20 Million

Mike Antonucci – The California Teachers Association has voted to slash its 2018-19 budget by more than $20 million because it...

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Starbucks Shuts Down Tuesday f...

May 29, 2018 by

Starbucks Shuts Down Tuesday for Racial Bias Training.

Schools and Teachers Have Been Doing the Same Training for Years — With Mixed Results They were educators, not baristas, and copies...

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Exclusive: Ahead of a Key Supr...

May 23, 2018 by

Exclusive: Ahead of a Key Supreme Court Decision, America’s Largest Teachers Union Slashes Budget by $50 Million, Projects That 300,000 Members May Leave

Mike Antonucci – The nation’s largest teachers union plans to reduce its budget by $50 million in anticipation of an...

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The Question That Stopped This...

May 17, 2018 by

The Question That Stopped This Teacher in Her Tracks: ‘I Know My Son Can Write, but Does He Have a Friend?’

Kai-Leé Berke – Early in my career, I was a new pre-K teacher on a Marine Corps base. As my first round of parent conferences...

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DC Charter’s Project-Based Aft...

May 13, 2018 by

DC Charter’s Project-Based After-School Program ‘Wows’ in Its Results for English Learners, Expands to District Schools

Carolyn Phenicie – Washington, D.C. Teacher Nicole Battle was deliberately playing devil’s advocate with the second- and...

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Falling Into the Belief Gap: W...

Apr 25, 2018 by

Falling Into the Belief Gap: What It Feels Like to Realize Your Child’s Teachers Have Sized Him Up and Dumbed Down Their Estimations

Beth Hawkins – I took my younger son on his first college tour a few weeks ago. Our student guide asked after his interests and...

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Landmark 1983 Report Faced Bac...

Apr 9, 2018 by

Landmark 1983 Report Faced Backlash but Changed U.S. History by ‘Changing the Way We Look at Education and Putting It Back on the American Agenda’

Milt Goldberg – Ahead of the Reagan Institute’s Summit on Education commemorating the 35th anniversary of the release of “A...

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New Report: In 46 States, High...

Apr 3, 2018 by

New Report: In 46 States, High School Graduation Requirements Aren’t Enough to Qualify for Nearby Public Universities

By Kevin Mahnken – Source: Center for American Progress High school graduation rates have soared across the country over the...

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Analysis: The National Educati...

Mar 26, 2018 by

Analysis: The National Education Association — a $1.6 Billion Enterprise With a Red-Ink Problem

Mike Antonucci – The National Education Association is a big business, with market advantages that are the envy of other big...

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Our Year’s Most Memorable Inte...

Mar 21, 2018 by

Our Year’s Most Memorable Interviews: 11 Conversations That Shaped How We Think About Education in 2017

Cramped inside phone booths at our co-working office space in Lower Manhattan, reporters at The 74 kept their phones busy in 2017....

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Why Teacher Strikes Aren’t Lik...

Mar 6, 2018 by

Why Teacher Strikes Aren’t Like Other Strikes (Hint: Teachers Often Get Paid)

As I write this, the strike by West Virginia’s public school employees has entered its third week. The three unions involved — West...

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