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Unrecognized Progress
“It is high time that we commit the full resources required to improve every school in America, so that every child is at grade level or above"
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Help Wanted
Choice, accountability, and transparency will mean little without a new generation of school-based leaders to light the way
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Yellow Flag
The charter school movement will need to overcome a raft of political obstacles and high-profile scandals
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Sisyphean Tasks
The reams of paperwork that currently serve as special education’s “accountability" system distract from the practice of teaching and learning. It is time to focus on results
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Reaching the Ideal
Special education has its problems, but they mainly follow from the failure of schools to comply fully with the law
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Low Pay, Low Quality
For decades the nation has been able to school its children on the cheap by exploiting a trapped workforce of educated women. Those days are long gone.
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Comparable Worth
Salary data fail to account for the shorter workday and work year in teaching. Once adjusted, teacher salaries look about right.
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