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Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets (Perhaps Teacher-Bashing Isn't Productive)

Kevin Welner | Posted 05.07.2012

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Kevin Welner

None of us would want to have our job performance judged on an outcome that we don't really control. But that's where teachers now find themselves.

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SFC & SB 130: "Innovating" Around Teacher Voice?

Sabrina Stevens | Posted 03.11.2012

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Sabrina Stevens

It's a rare thing to meet a public school stakeholder who honestly believes politicians and corporate-funded lobbying groups should have more say over education than educators do. Yet that's exactly what's happening.

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Colo. Schools Get A Report Card -- Did Yours Make The Grade?

Posted 12.12.2011

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A new website premiering today endeavors to make education performance in Colorado public schools more transparent and understandable for parents and ...

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Joy Resmovits

Meet America's New Education Lobby

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011

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Meet the new education lobby. It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations lik...

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WATCH: John Legend Joins Forces With Education Advocacy Group

Posted 01.15.2012

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Music artist John Legend has joined nonprofit development and training organization Stand for Children to support a movement working toward improved p...

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Corrosive High-Stakes Politics Extends to "Nonpartisan" Denver School Board Elections

Michele Swenson | Posted 12.26.2011

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Michele Swenson

Considering that campaign spending limits apply to every other elected office in the state except local school board elections, it was only a matter of time before extreme corporate cash debased local school board elections.

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Snatching Defeat From the Mouth of Victory

Richard Lee Colvin | Posted 09.14.2011

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Richard Lee Colvin

"Let's take the politics out of education." In my many years observing and writing about American education I've probably heard variants of that phrase hundreds of times. It's naïve, of course.

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Will Guzzardi

WATCH: A Frank Talk About School Reform Politicking Draws Ire

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Guzzardi | Posted 09.11.2011

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Jonah Edelman, the founder of the influential and cash-heavy education advocacy group Stand for Children, has issued an apology after a video surfaced...

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New Illinois Law: Education Reform or Mere Distraction?

Julie Woestehoff | Posted 08.15.2011

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Julie Woestehoff

From the way Illinois politicians have been preening the past couple of days, you'd think they had cured cancer. Nope, it's what they and the media have been relentlessly calling a "historic" new education reform law.

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Twilight for Education Policy's Idols

Conor Williams | Posted 07.27.2011

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Conor Williams

It's hard to notice when we've let our admiration for our favorite education prophets push us to intellectual dishonesty, but hard things are usually the things most worth doing.

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The Campaign to Discredit Michelle Rhee

Richard Whitmire | Posted 07.25.2011

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Richard Whitmire

With last week's greatly downgraded assessment of "cheating" in Washington, D.C. schools, we need a referee to call a strike count on the campaign to smear former chancellor Michelle Rhee.

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Illinois Is Proving Any State Can Change Its Schools

Suzanne Tacheny Kubach | Posted 07.22.2011

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Suzanne Tacheny Kubach

A dozen or so leading citizens, backed by local and national philanthropy, put Illinois on this path to becoming a national leader in education reform.

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Epic Miscalculation Has Illinois Teachers Unions in the Crosshairs

Paras Bhayani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paras Bhayani

Legislative leaders in Springfield are readying a mammoth education reform package aimed primarily at curtailing the power of the state's teachers unions, a shocking turn of events.

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Report from the States: Standing up for Students is Good Politics

Jonah Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonah Edelman

When we elect candidates who champion legislation that helps more students succeed, students aren't the only winners. We all win.

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Denver School Board Elections Draw National Attention

The Denver Post | Jeremy P. Meyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Denver's school board election typically attracts little attention. But this November's election could tip the balance of the seven-member board, and...

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