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Nina Rees on Efforts to Reduce Funding for Charter Schools | C-SPAN.org

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 23, 2021July 24, 2021

July 23, 2021July 24, 202107

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ Nina Rees talked about congressional efforts to reduce federal funding of charter schools.— Watch on www.c-span.org/video/ House Democrats want...

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Chris Lubienski: The Deceptive Language of School Choice

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 23, 2021July 24, 2021

July 23, 2021July 24, 202105

Chris Lubienski is a professor of education policy at Indiana University. He wrote recently with Amanda Potterton and Joe Malin about the deceptive rhetoric of...

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Chris Whittle Loses His Home in the Hamptons, Once Listed for $140 Million

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 18, 2021July 19, 2021

July 18, 2021July 19, 202108

Being an eduEntreneur does not always pay off. Chris Whittle founded the Edison Project, which was supposed to be for profit, but after much turmoil,...

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Dennis Shirley: Standardized Testing Is Obsolete

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 16, 2021July 17, 2021

July 16, 2021July 17, 202107

Dennis Shirley is the Duganne faculty fellow and professor at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development. His new book with Andy Hargreaves...

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The Failure of the Obama-Duncan “School Improvement Grants” and Its Lessons for Today

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 8, 2021July 9, 2021

July 8, 2021July 9, 202108

A while back, I read a vitriolic article in a rightwing publication that expressed contempt for the public schools and congratulated Betsy DeVos for trying...

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Nancy Bailey: Can We Save Our Democratic Public Schools?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 5, 2021July 6, 2021

July 5, 2021July 6, 2021015

Nancy Bailey writes here about the growing influence and persistence of the billionaire-funded groups that want to privatize our nation’s public schools. Despite the substantial...

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

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 12, 2021June 13, 2021

June 12, 2021June 13, 2021023

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...

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How Does Forbes Select Its “30 Under 30,” Who Are Considered Leaders in Education?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 19, 2021April 20, 2021

April 19, 2021April 20, 2021030

This is a fascinating paper published in the peer-reviewed Education Policy Analysis and Archives in 2018. It explores the question of how Forbes magazine selects...

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Ohio: Voucher Students Are Not Required to Take State Exams

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 17, 2021April 18, 2021

April 17, 2021April 18, 2021020

Apparently, the voucher schools were embarrassed by the Ohio study showing that kids who use vouchers lose ground academically. There were two ways to respond...

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Tom Ultican: Why I Support Public Education

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 15, 2021April 16, 2021

April 15, 2021April 16, 2021024

Tom Ultican explains why he spends so much of his time fighting for public schools. The original cause for my supporting public education was that...

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