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Charter Schools

Better Charter School Laws Can Help Families Win a Ticket Out of Poverty. Here's Who's Getting It Right.

As a tribute to National School Choice Week, one of the most empowering weeks of the year for parents, today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released its 11th annual ranking of...

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student achievement

To See the Real Picture on NAEP, You Have to Know Where to Look

It would be all too easy to see the grim headlines about the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores as the whole story of what’s happening in schools across the...

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Charter Schools

Register to Vote and Let Politicians Know They Can’t Win by Attacking Charter Schools

I will never forget the day I became a U.S. citizen: November 16, 1993. My dad had moved us to the United States on a work visa and we had to wait a decade to finally become citizens. To some, the...

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Washington D.C.

It's Time to Help Teachers Discover the Science Behind How Kids Learn

We recently surveyed around 200 K-12 educators from across the U.S. to discover their beliefs about learning. The results were not good—and say a lot about the nation’s system of training educators....

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Washington D.C.

Think Economics Is Boring? It’s Actually the Key to Good Citizenship

When teachers, parents and students think about civics in the classroom, first and foremost they imagine social studies, Constitution Day and the Pledge of Allegiance. It is, of course, part of our...

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equity

Student Journalism Changed My Life

Every student deserves the chance to tell their story. Three years ago, to me, the daily proceedings at the vast majority of schools across my home state of Washington seemed almost identical. At my...

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