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Mutually Contradictory: How Obama's stimulus sabotages his school reform efforts. Read more

Motown Philly: The City of Brotherly Love may become the next Detroit. Read more

Teacher Pension Bombs: More reasons why teacher compensation must be reformed. Read more

Mutually Assured Destructon: The fraying ties between Democrats and teachers unions.
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Waffle Man: A Colorado U.S. Senator struggles because of his lack of strong political positions. Read more

Obama's New Teacher: John Kline's likely ascent to the house education committee has consequences for school reform. Read more

No Tears for Fenty:The D.C. Mayor's defeat is an object lesson for school reformers everywhere.
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Marriage of Convenience: Congressional Democrats and teachers unions find that $10 billion doesn't bridge a divide. Read more

Last Hired, First Fired: Teacher layoffs reveal a generational divide within the NEA and AFT.Read more

Employment School: The educational roots of America's double-digit unemployment. Read more

Gone to Sod: Illinois slides into the political cesspool. Read more

Who's Sorry Now: Former Georgia governor Roy Barnes abandons school reform for his return to office. Read more

Fenty Gets Schooled: The D.C. mayor stands up the school reform movement that supports him. Read more

The Kids Can't Read: Why 1.2 million kids drop out every year and more women than men are attending college. Read more

Expulsion: Why Obama should abandon efforts to turnaround dropout factories. Read more

Race to the Top -- of What?: The promise -- and problems -- of Obama's key school reform initiative. Read more
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Second Front Alliances

President Barack Obama will find himself butting heads with congressional Republicans such as incoming House Education and Labor Committee Chairman John Kline, who opposes Race to the Top and other federal school reform efforts. But the president may have an ally in the 29 Republican governors. Find out why in Second Front Alliances, my latest report at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/12/22/second-front-alliances. Check out the new RiShawnBiddle.org site for my latest news and commentary. Follow me on Twitter. And e-mail me with any questions or media requests.
Dropout Nation PodcastThis week's podcast explains economic and social benefits of graduating from high school and college -- and why we must reform American public education. Subscribe today. Also download directly or from iTunes, Blubrry, Podcast Alley, Zune Marketplace and the Education Podcast Network. And BlackBerry users can access the podcasts through Viigo.
Dropout Nation PodcastThe parents at Compton, Calif.'s McKinley Elementary School launch the first wave in a challenge to the condescension of parents among traditional education types. Read it today.
For the kids in Connecticut and elsewhere, they can't afford to wait for adults to respond to clarion calls. Read it today.
Why African-American congregations must embrace the education role long-held by the Catholic Church. Read it today.

Voices of the Dropout Nation: Chad Sansing on Creating Clouds of Learning: A charter school teacher argues for the end of school districts.

 

The Same Junk Over and Over (Or Rick Hess Gets It Wrong): The AEI education guru's faulty analysis on Waiting for Superman


Voices of the Dropout Nation: Phillip Jackson on the Need to Rally Black America Around School Reform: African-Americans must face the future of a knowledge-based economy.


Can School Governance Reform Happen in Memphis and Shelby County?: A new way to run schools in the Land of the Delta Blues.

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building Cultures of Genius Block by Block: What it will take to reform American public education? The people on the ground who are outside its status quo.

This is Dropout Nation: Jersey City's Lessons in School Finance: The New Jersey district shows that isn't about more money, but about how it's spent.


America's Woeful Public Schools: PISA Shows That We Are Falling Behind Internationally: The latest Programme for International Student Assessment results shows the consequences of systemic academic failure.

Michelle Rhee's School Reform Opportunity: What the former D.C. schools boss should do to rally together the various elements of the movement.


The NAACP Should Stay Away from Wake County: More thoughts on why integration must be secondary to systemic reform.


The Dropout Nation Podcast: What Education As a Civil Right Really Means: Walking the talk that education is the most-important civil rights issue of our time.


A WikiLeaks for American Public Education?: Breaking school data out of black boxes.

When Will Diane Ravitch Get Her Brain Back? The education historian and school reform critic flunks history.