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William Gumbert: Dallas ISD Public Schools Significantly Outperform Dallas Charter Schools

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William Gumbert has written a series of posts demonstrating that students who attend public schools in Texas consistently get better results than those in charter...

Beware the Phony Parent Astroturf Groups in Your State!

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Jeanne Melvin of Ohio’s Parent Education Partners has provided a useful guide to help readers discern the differences between actual parent groups and billionaire-funded astroturf...

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Biden Breaks Another Promise to Educators and Parents

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During the 2020 Presidential campaign, candidate Joe Biden pledged to educators that if elected, Betsy DeVos’s priorities, such as charter schools, would be gone. That’s...

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Who Should Pay for College?

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In recent decades, states have reduced their subsidies to institutions of high education, shifting the financial burden to students and families. After World War II,...

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Tom Ultican: How Johns Hopkins Lost Its Reputation for Scholarship in Education and Became a Beacon of “Reform” Advocacy

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Tom Ultican tells the sad story of the Johns Hopkins University Education Policy Institute, which was once known for unbiased scholarship. As he recounts the...

Education Reform

The Downside of Data-Driven Education

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Jerry Z. Muller wrote a warning about how data-driven organizations can distort their own goals and purposes. In education, we have known about the dangers...

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Chalkbeat: State Takeovers Are Usually Unsuccessful

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Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat reports on a research study that concluded that most state takeovers of low-performing districts were unsuccessful. Local school boards, it was...

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My Choice for Mayor of New York City

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I endorse Maya Wiley for the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City. There are many candidates in the Democratic primary for Mayor of...

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GOP Billionaires Invest in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary

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Salon writes that the two leading candidates in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary—Andrew Yang and Eric Adams—are funded by major supporters of the...

Education Reform

How America’s Richest Pay Little or No Income Taxes

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An anonymous tipster at the Internal Revenue Service gave Pro Publica the tax returns of America’s richest people. This act was illegal. But it showed...