Rural, conservative, impoverished Oklahoma has built the nation’s brightest model for early education.
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Schools in the Crosshairs
Starry-eyed education reformers have found yet another panacea for saving public education: parent-trigger laws.
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Anti-Testing: Unlikely Common Ground?
At first glance, the 2012 elections didn’t seem to have much bearing on education policies. After all, the fundamental debates around schools-whether to increase the role of testing, merit pay, charter schools, and school choice-are, for the most part, outside the realm of partisan politics. Among both Democratic and Republican leadership, there’s a fair amount […]
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Progressives: The Biggest Winners of State Ballot Measures
Things just got good for Washington State’s gay charter school teachers, who can now inhale and really enjoy the food at their weddings.
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Unions Fighting Two-Front War on California Ballots
This is the eighth in the Prospect’s series on the 174 measures on state ballots this year. It’s been a bad year for California unions. Republicans have never been fans of the labor movement, and now state Democratic support is waning. In September, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a pension reform plan that […]
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Teach for America’s Deep Bench
The education nonprofit is also training the next generation of politicians, who have very specific ideas on school reform.
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Georgia’s Bitter Charter Battle
Will voters create a $430 million charter-school commission when school budgets are already suffering?
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Teaching for a New China
The challenges of higher education in a censorship state
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Will the Munger Kids Kill California’s Schools?
California’s version of the Koch brothers teams up to defeat Jerry Brown’s initiative to tax the rich and save public education.
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Joel Klein’s Misleading Autobiography
What the former chancellor of New York City schools’ sleight of hand tells us about education reform
