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We Should Pay More for the Best Teachers

Yglesias: Research shows there鈥檚 a lot of electoral upside to supporting teacher pay that is based on performance rather than pure seniority.

Matthew Yglesias
Author: Matthew Yglesias
Student鈥檚 View
Student鈥檚 View

Harnessing the Power of Music for Students With Disabilities

Student鈥檚 View: Music is an unusually powerful tool for regulating emotions, rewiring neural pathways and opening channels of communication.

Saira Shah
Author: Saira Shah
commentary
commentary

Connecticut Charters Break Through in Historic Legislative Session

Greenberg-Ellis and Pimentel: With approval of four new schools, plus added funding and benefits, lawmakers showed increased support for charters.

Rebecca Greenberg-Ellis & Lucas Pimentel
commentary
commentary

Lessons from Charters Where Every Student Graduates, Most of Them With a Plan

Cobb: Charter school students have racked up more than a billion in scholarships and nearly 100% acceptance to college or postsecondary programs.

Darryl Cobb, Charter School Growth Fund
Author: Darryl Cobb
Pandemic

鈥楾hat鈥檚 Not a Gap Year. That鈥檚 Just Not Going to College鈥�: COVID-19 Erodes Equity Gains of First-Generation College-Goers

Richard Whitmire
Pandemic

Adams: For Equity’s Sake, Let Kids Who Like Remote Learning Keep Doing Class Online and Let Kids Who Need In-Person Teaching Have the Schools

Alina Adams
Opinion

鈥楧o Not Remain Silent 鈥� Please Be Brave鈥� 鈥� Amid Pain and Fear, an Education Advocate Finds Hope That Allyship & Commitment to Justice Can Create a New Reality for Students

Kira Tookes
Pandemic

The Coronavirus Wipes Out New York City鈥檚 District-Charter Collaboration Program

Conor P. Williams
Pandemic

Berens: With Students Learning Remotely From Home, Now Is a Great Time for Parents to Teach Their Children a Better Work Ethic

Kimberly Nix Berens
Keeping it 100

An Educator鈥檚 View: My Charter School Network Was Founded to Battle Racism and Injustice. That鈥檚 Why We Shut Down Last Week for a Day of Action, Healing & Connection

Julie Jackson
Student Voice

Student Voice: Decades After My Great-Grandmother Was Tear-Gassed, Taking Fresh Stock of the Land of the 鈥楩ree鈥�

Jimmy Rodgers
4Fams

A Mom鈥檚 View: I Believe Teaching Children to Be Kind, Caring and Aware of Diversity Can Change the World. That鈥檚 Why I Founded a School

Rebecca Nurick
Pandemic

Balow & Rivera: DeVos Is Trying to Benefit Private Schools by Changing the Rules on Aid to Low-Income Students. This Must Not Happen

Jillian Balow & Pedro Rivera
4Fams

Gordon Parks Showed America the Rage Behind Decades of Racial Unrest. On Thursday, Minneapolis Rioters Burned the School Named for Him

Beth Hawkins
Coronavirus

Student Voice: Student, Sibling, Mentor, Mess. Pandemic Has Me Juggling Roles and Craving Sleep

Bridgette Adu-Wadier
Pandemic

I Rode the Bus for 93 Miles and 6 Hours So My Students Could Have Instructional Packets 鈥� and Food for Their Families

Amber Rawlins
Coronavirus

Student Voice: Two Weeks, Five Siblings and One Working Laptop. How I Navigated the Nation鈥檚 Largest School System in Search of an iPad and What It Taught Me About America鈥檚 Digital Divide

Brandon Yam
Pandemic Notebook

Teaching Nemo: How I Learned to Juggle Community College While Instructing My 9-Year-Old Nephew From Home

Safiya Al-Samarrai
Keeping it 100

McClellan: On the Anniversary of Brown v. Board, Celebrating the Unsung Female Heroes of the Landmark School Desegregation Ruling

Cara McClellan
EDlection 2020

Open Letter to Joe Biden: The Votes of Black and Brown Charter School Parents Matter. Ignore Us at Your Own Peril

Dr. Howard Fuller
Pandemic

Worst. Summer Break. Ever. How One D.C. Third-Grader Is Bracing for the Pain of Quarantine Without the Pleasure of School

Owain Williams
Pandemic

What Happens If NYC Eliminates Screened Schools? Amid a Pandemic and Canceled State Tests, Parents Worry About Equity in the District 鈥� and Being Locked Out of the Discussion

Alina Adams
Pandemic

Schwartz & Soifer: Reading, Writing and Respect 鈥� Today, We Celebrate 84 National Schools of Character

Arthur Schwartz & Lori Soifer
Opinion

Three Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From International COVID-19 Child Care Responses

Elliot Haspel
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