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 October 15, 2010
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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

Broken Promises: The NEA's future may not be so bright. Read more

The Last Shall Not Be First: Is the end of reverse-seniority teacher layoffs coming? Read More
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Obama's New Teacher
After the midterm elections, President Obama may have to worry about more than just beating back teachers unions and other opponents to his school reform efforts. Minnesota Congressman John Kline, who could be the next House education committee chairman, is opposed to the kind of expansive federal role that is a hallmark of Obama's work. Yet conservative reformers may also find little to like about Kline.

Read more in Obama's New Teacher, my latest report at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/10/15/obamas-new-teacher. Check out RiShawnBiddle.org for my latest news and commentary. Follow me on Twitter. And e-mail me with any questions or media requests.
Dropout Nation PodcastThe presumptive House Education and Labor Committee Chairman offers his thoughts on Obama's education reform plans and No Child Left Behind. Read it today.
Dropout Nation PodcastThis week's podcast tears down a reason why many educators refuse to reform education. Subscribe today. Also download directly or from iTunes, Blubrry, Podcast Alley, Zune Marketplace and theEducation Podcast Network. And BlackBerry users can access the podcasts through Viigo.
Steve Peha: Still Waiting In D.C.: What the Michelle Rhee era has wrought.

Voices of the Dropout Nation: Steve Evangelista on Building Connections Between Schools and Students: A charter school founder gleans some lessons from a recent visit from his school's alumni.

This is Dropout Nation: America's Truancy Problem: The L.A. County Example: California and its largest county shows what America should - and shouldn't do - when it comes to a symptom of the education crisis.

Voices of the Dropout Nation: Phillip Jackson on Education and Stemming Violence in Black Communities: The head of the Black Star Project looks at youth crime a year after the Derrion Albert murder.

Two Thoughts on Education This Week: Elections Department: What Adrian Fenty's loss and other primary results mean for school reform.

Disrupting the Structure of Education: New Orleans and the Hollywood Model: The Big Easy may be the first stop in abandoning the traditional public school district model.

The Dropout Nation Podcast: Embracing a New Vision of Parents in Education: Defenders of traditional public education and school reformers must stop looking at parents are afterthoughts and worse.

The Future of Mayor-Led Reform: Why we can't measure the success or failures of one aspect of school reform on a D.C. mayor's sagging election fortunes.