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Read Fixing What Ails American Public Education, Contributing Editor Steve Peha's collection of essays on overhauling instruction to advance school reform.
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. Voices of the Dropout Nation: Gwen Samuel on the Importance of Parent Trigger: Why parent power must be the norm in American public education. There Are No Unmotivated Students: The fictions told by adults to avoid responsibility for improving education for all kids. Two Thoughts on Education This Week: Teacher Pension Oversight Edition: Why congressional Republicans may weigh in on the nation's pension debacle. | 
