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The Wisconsin Teachers Protest: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
As school systems across the state of Wisconsin cancel another day of classes — the result of massive protests in Madison following Governor Scott Walker’s effort to strip educators of the bulk of...
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What If Learning — Not Fighting — Were the Focus?
(This article also appeared in the Huffington Post.) As accusations fly back and forth over the reported DC cheating scandal – the latest in a series of battles between America’s two dominant...
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In What Way Justice?
What does it mean to be an American the day after Georgia may have just murdered an innocent man? Read the first words of the preamble to our Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in Order...
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Require kids to stay in school? Not so fast…
Anytime you hear government officials mandating new behaviors to a broad swath of the population, that mandate is likely to run afoul of the First Amendment. And so it is with President Obama’s...
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As Fifty States Reimagine Education Policy, Four Are Ready to Offer Guidance
What makes a mind come alive? How can one community impact every child? What do schools need to be changing from, and to? And how can states set the conditions for lasting change? In theory, these...
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