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Two Thoughts on Education This Week: On Teacher Quality Reform
The End of Ed Schools — and Professional Development?: When it comes to training teachers and improving their skills, this is clear: The nation spends a lot on it ($7 billion alone on training...
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Voices of the Dropout Nation: The Need for a New Normal in Education
Our K-12 system largely still adheres to the century-old, industrial-age factory model of education. A century ago, maybe it made sense to adopt seat-time requirements for graduation and pay teachers...
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27 Percentage of American 12th-graders in 11 states who tested Below Basic proficiency on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, the results of which were released today. 26 Percentage...
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Rewind: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five Questions Every Parent Should Ask
As you head into the weekend, listen in on this rebroadcast of this Dropout Nation Podcast on how to improve education for their children through a few simple questions. Even as school reform has...
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Three Questions: Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett
Since taking office as Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction two years ago, Tony Bennett has managed to make the kind of meaningful changes in reforming how the Hoosier State recruits and...
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The Dropout Nation Podcast: What Education As a Civil Right Really Means
On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I explain what it should mean for education to be the leading civil rights issue of this era. School reformers and others make this statement every day, but it...
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Two Thoughts on Education This Week: Teacher Pension Oversight Edition
The High Cost of Teacher Pensions: Congressional Republican Edition: As I’ve noted for the past two years, the struggle among states to deal with the more than $600 billion in pension deficits and...
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The Dropout Nation Podcast: Five New Questions Every Parent Should Ask
On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I discuss how parents can use five new questions to spur reform of American public education and improve schools for their children step by step. By asking the...
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Tackling School Discipline
On this episode of On the Road from May 2016, RiShawn Biddle joins Steven Evangelista of Harlem Link Charter School, Shawn Hardnett of NewSchools Venture Fund, University of Pennsylvania’s Matthew...
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Best of Dropout Nation: A Call to Revolutionize American Public Education
On this rebroadcast of a Dropout Nation Podcast from 2012, RiShawn Biddle calls upon reformers to remember the need to build brighter futures for all kids – and take the time in the new year to advance...
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