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The Education Reform Collection

Update 8/8/14: A Call for Submissions & Guidelines

Peter C. Cook3 min read

The states versus Secretary Duncan

Why Mary Fallin has a case but Bobby Jindal doesn’t

Brandon Wright7 min read

Moving On

I wonder why I’m not bothered about leaving behind people I love, and if the system needs change.

Nathan Liu4 min read

Fun With Facts About New Orleans Schools

How phrasing and the omission of facts can radically change a reader’s perception of an issue

Peter C. Cook3 min read

An Armchair Psychologist Analyzes Bobby Jindal

Why is Jindal still fighting Common Core?

Peter C. Cook4 min read

Delinquents or Double Standards?

White kids, black kids and criminal justice.

jeff deeney8 min read

This is NPR: Negatively Portraying Reform?

How reporting on New Orleans schools becomes a casualty in the broader war over education reform

Peter C. Cook6 min read

Yes, Teach For America is More Diverse — but We Can’t Be Content With That

4:30AM thoughts before the first day of school

Christina Torres2 min read

Mathematics

How the Common Core is meant to Help

Melissa Habermeyer5 min read

It’s not a race: A letter to my daughter before college

As I watched you accept your high school diploma last weekend, looking self-assured and happy with a lei of orchids around your neck, I…

Race to Nowhere5 min read

Teacher tenure lawsuits and their pitfalls

It’s open season on teacher employment protection laws in U.S. state courts. The watershed moment, of course, was June’s Vergara v…. California verdict holding California’s laws unconstitutional. Vergara began back in March of 2012, when nine public school students filed suit against the State of California, arguing that California’s laws violated its constitutional guarantee of an effective education. In the seven weeks since, two high-profile copycat cases have been filed in New York State. Have we reached a point of no return?

Brandon Wright7 min read