Latest Articles
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Evaluating Teachers
A panel discussion on the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers
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The Fallacy of ‘Local Control’ in Public Education
The infrastructure constructed over the past three decades to promote a national vision of excellence and equity in public education is in danger of being swept away.
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Vocational Education: The Answer For Boston’s Schools?
A discussion on the role of vocational education in today’s high schools
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The Quarterly Report: Big Questions for America’s Schools
An on-camera discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of today’s school reform movement
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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