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America's Woeful Public Schools: NAEP Shows the Need for Improving Science Instruction in Urban Cities: What isn't happening in big-city schools.
Shutdowns Must Only Be the Start for Detroit Public Schools: Time for Motown to abandon the traditional district model.
Read Fixing What Ails American Public Education, Contributing Editor Steve Peha's collection of essays on overhauling instruction to advance school reform.
Voices of the Dropout Nation: Phillip Jackson on the Need for Educational and Economic Self-Empowerment: What Black America must do to succeed in the global economy.
The Dropout Nation Podcast: The Importance of High Expectations: Poor and minority kids deserve a high-quality college-prep education.
When Personal Responsibility and Poor Values Aren't the Problems:Why the personal responsibility myth in education papers over the realities of systemic decay.
Stop Limiting Poor and Minority Kids with Low Expectations: More on the perpetuating mediocrity in education.
The Dropout Nation Podcast: Find New Ways to Reward Teachers: Why reverse seniority layoffs and seniority-based privileges must head into history's ashbin.
Harvard Ed School Profs to Poor and Minority Kids: You Don't Deserve College Prep Education: Why we can't continue to perpetuate cultures and curriculums of mediocrity.
Stepping Into the Hollywood Model: Atlanta and Fulton County: While Hotlanta struggles through a testing scandal, its sister district undertakes a governance transformation.
The Dropout Nation Podcast: Time to Build Parent Power: The Kelley Williams-Bolar case offers more reasons why families must be given power in education.
Accountability? We Don't Have Enough of It: The need for an AYP for holding ed schools accountable.
Reform School Funding, End Zip Code Education: School choice won't happen until school funding reform is fixed.
Three Thoughts on Education This Week: The Next Steps in Mayor-Led Reform: A San Antonio mayor's baby steps. And what Indianapolis' mayor should do on charter schools.
The Dropout Nation Podcast: Beyond Budget Cuts: The systemic reforms of education states must undertake in order to improve student achievement and spend money more wisely.
Why Bother with State Education Governance?: Why California Gov. Jerry Brown's latest moves aren't the ones to follow.
The Dropout Nation Podcast: Re-Imagine the Teaching Profession: Why it is time to rethink what teacher career paths should be.
The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five New Questions Every Parent Should Ask: How inquiring into such areas as math instruction and school turnarounds can spur reform for every child.
The Inmates Are Still in Charge: The Culture Change Problem of School Turnarounds: Why School Improvement Grants and other turnaround efforts fall apart.
End the Myth of Scale in Education, Embrace Standards Instead: Why arguments over scaling school reform solutions miss the need to improve quality of education. (Also read the follow-up, More on Scale and Education.)
The Dropout Nation Podcast: Take It and Shake It: Why we must treat American public education like an Etch-A-Sketch
Voices of the Dropout Nation: Bill Betzen on the Need for a Revolution for Students: What one Texas teacher thinks schools must do to get students to graduation.
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