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- What’s at Stake for Schools in the Health Care Bill?
- California Accountability: An ESSA Bellwether?
- Between District and Charter: Finding the Middle Path in Indianapolis
- “This budget reflects the views of an administration filled with people who frankly never had to worry about their children going to college."
- Skipping Class and Chronic Absenteeism
- Mining Chronic Absence Data for More Insights Into Schools and Students
- "The opponents of modernizing our education system will pull out all the stops. They will not go quietly into the night."
- Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
- To Find the Value a Teacher Adds, Look Beyond Test Scores
- Tuition Tax Credits Let Private School Donors Turn a Profit
- Candice Jackson: In Her Own Words
- "We've done young people a disservice for a long time in suggesting that if you're going to be successful as an adult, that you have to go to a four-year college or university."
- How Charters Change a School District
- "This is what winning for young children and kids from all over the country looks like."
- The Challenge of Paying for a New Kind of Learning
- Graduation Rates for Pell Grant Recipients
- The 20% Solution: Selective Colleges and Pell Grants
- Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in the Context of New Accountability
- "We would tell those who work to destroy our public schools, no matter how well-intentioned they might think themselves to be, to stop invoking 'civil rights.' It is a grave insult to the great American martyrs who died in service to that cause
- How Do Schools Respond to State Policies on Teacher Evaluation?
- Yes, Secretary DeVos, There is a Common Core
- States and the Common Core
- "There’s isn’t really any Common Core anymore, and each state is able to set the standards for their state."
- "My mission is to unleash a new era of innovation in education to drive unprecedented achievement."
- Pathways to the University Presidency: The Future of Higher Education Leadership
- Teachers, Students, Race and Behavior
- Denying the "School Choice Deniers" Argument
- College Applications
- Building a New Middle Class in the Knowledge Economy
- How Did Chronic Absenteeism Become a Thing?
- Bridging the District-Charter Divide to Help More Students Succeed
- The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
- Jason Botel: From Ed Reformer to White House to Ed Dept.
- "Common Core. I mean, we have to bring education more local. We can’t be managing education from Washington. When I go out to Iowa, when I go out to the different states and I talk, they want to run their school programs locally."
- Did the New Orleans School Reforms Increase Segregation?
- School Finance is Coming Out of the Dark Ages
- Small School Districts
- The Surprising Sources of Racial Gaps in Higher Education
- College Affordability
- Understanding Teacher Retention and Mobility in Washington State
- "I think the first and most important measure of accountability to the public is to the parents in general, right? The fact that parents choose a school for their child.”
- The Smart Money: Designing A School Budget
- Improving Title II of the Elementary and Secondary School Act
- "Schools are still a national issue, but there is a consensus that the issues not to be resolved from Washington."
- "I want to be very clear: the massive and immediate cuts to education, health care, medical research, and other middle class and worker priorities that President Trump is demanding are absolute non-starters for Democrats."
- Reducing Student Absenteeism in the Early Grades by Targeting Parental Beliefs
- Limited Means, Limited Options
- The Surplus of Teacher-prep Programs
- "I was all for ESSA's devolution of authority back to the states. But I'm now living a vivid, painful example of how federalism can be used to advance adult interests at the expense of students."
- "The reality is that private schools receiving taxpayer funds lack accountability and transparency, can deny students and parents basic rights, and are inaccessible to students in rural areas and students who cannot afford to pay the difference in cost between the voucher and private school tuition."
- School Choice & Trump's Budget: A Chat with Martin West
- Corporal Punishment in US Schools
- Proficiency vs. Growth: Toward a Better Measure
- Parsing Betsy DeVos on the Education Budget
- Private School Choice Across the States
- Health and Academic Achievement
- Don’t Forget Magnet Schools When Thinking About School Choice
- "The budget places power in the hands of parents and families to choose schools that are best for their children by investing an additional $1.4 billion in school choice programs."
- "We're going to do what's best for children by implementing the law as Congress intended, with the freedom and flexibility that state and local leaders deserve."
- Americorps' Value
- What Title I Portability Would Mean for Federal Education Aid
- The Gap Within the Gap
- Teacher Absenteeism
- "It will give Secretary DeVos a blank check to promote her anti-public-school agenda."
- The Equity Problem in Teachers' Pensions
- "Here is the problem with this rule that was put out by the U.S. Department of Education: the rule specifically does things or requires states to do things that Congress said ... the Department can’t do. In other words, the Department’s regulation specifically violates the law."
- "I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African-American and Latino children. These families should be free to choose public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them."
- Jobs and College Degrees
- DeVos Decoded: Who, What, When and Where
- Diane Ravitch's Problematic Polemics
- FutureEd, McCourt School to Host EWA Conference
- Novice State Leaders
- Tennessee Teachers and Evaluation
- Teacher Performance and Tenure
- "Do you agree...that all schools that receive taxpayer funding should be equally accountable?" "Well no...."
- "The path to higher standards and better teaching and real accountability is community by community, classroom by classroom, state by state, and not through the federal government."
- "We have a unique window of opportunity to make school choice a reality for millions of families."
- "I want every single inner-city child in America, who is today trapped in a failing school, to have the freedom — the civil right — to attend the school of their choice."
- "I can tell the attitude is more of a ‘receive mode.’ They’re waiting to be told what they have to do, and that’s not going to bring success to an individual child. You have to have teachers who are empowered to facilitate great teaching."
- Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education
- Vouchers in Indiana's Private Schools
- DeVos and Kaine on School Accountability
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