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Vouchers Redux
The Romney campaign is putting vouchers at the center of its new education plan, but there’s not a lot to recommend vouchers as a large-scale reform strategy.
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National Problems Require National Solutions
The national problems in public education require national solutions.
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Teaching Wars: What Students Should Learn
Two school reform titans of an earlier era inform today’s debate over what students should learn and how they should be taught.
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Who Rules? The Fight Over The Federal Role in Education
The national drive for education reform has touched off many power struggles, but the fight over the federal role in education has emerged as fundamental.
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School Reform-It’s Complicated
In his new book Class Warfare, journalist Steven Brill pulls back the curtain on the last decade of school reform, but not all the way
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Rhee Engineering Education
Has D.C.’s radical experiment in school reform really worked? A review of The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District, by Richard Whitmire
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Education Entrepreneurs on the Potomac
A new generation of social entrepreneurs is moving into public education–and the Obama administration is cheering.
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How Public School Teaching Got Cool
Teach for America’s 20th anniversary bash in Washington, DC, proved that public education is increasingly a destination for the best-and-brightest.