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public schools

The Ogden-Jenner School Merger Should Happen. Period.

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will soon make a decision that will either allow it to leverage itself as a true champion for racial integration or affirm its dogged reputation as a racially biased...

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Charter Schools

We Got Our Hands on Unionized Charter School Teacher Contracts and Here's What We Found

Oakland blogger Dirk Tillotson wrote this provocative piece suggesting that unions and charters could actually be good for each other. Currently, about 12 percent of America’s 6,700 charter schools...

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California

Charter Schools Offer a Chance for Unions To Work For Teachers and Students

Oakland blogger Dirk Tillotson wrote this provocative piece suggesting that unions and charters could actually be good for each other. Currently, about 12 percent of America’s 6,700 charter schools...

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Student Voice

I'm Fed Up With the Dakota Access Pipeline So My School Helped Me Write a Speech About It

Christina Torres was inspired to write this speech on the Dakota Access Pipeline after completing coursework influenced by the Common Core State Standards at the Academy for Global Citizenship. Click...

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U.S. Department of Education

Here's the Deal: We Can't Help Teachers Improve If We Don't Know What Needs Improving

In an unexpected defense of the Obama administration's pursuit of a clearer teacher-by-teacher picture of who's doing a good job educating the nation's students and who isn't, the U.S. Department of...

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School Choice

My Teachers Didn't Believe I Could Read, But My Mom Found a School That Did

At 3-years-old I began school and could read fluently. Despite my mother telling my teachers that I could read since I was 2, they refused to believe I could. During class, my teachers would stop me...

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