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Harriet Ball, Master Educator and KIPP Inspiration, Has Died

The tireless teacher and advocate for educational excellence has passed away. Thankfully, her legacy still lives on.

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Waiting for Superman Can Stop Waiting for Oscar

The Academy Awards dissed the biggest education documentary of 2010. What gives?

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Geoffrey Canada Tells Stephen Colbert Racism Has Nothing to Do with the Achievement Gap

The Waiting for Superman star says teachers unions are to blame for everything wrong in public education.

Year in Review 2010: Urban School District Leadership in Transition

Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.

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Dropout Factories

Can we sustain the public's attention for long enough to rehabilitate our country's worst schools?

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Michelle Rhee Forms National Education Reform Advocacy Group

Michelle Rhee is taking on teachers' unions and other special interest groups with her new politically inclined education reform organization.

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Borders Wants to Give You a $15 Donors Choose Gift Card

Want to pick up the latest novel and hook up a classroom with much-needed resources? This weekend you can do both.

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GOOD Education: Best Practices

A roundup of lessons learned from GOOD's entire event series on fixing education in America.

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Q&A: Diane Ravitch Skewers Every Education Reform Sacred Cow

In part two of a two-part conversation, Diane Ravitch upends many commonly held assumptions about education reform.

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Q&A: Diane Ravitch Skewers Every Education Reform Sacred Cow (PART ONE)

In part one of a two-part conversation, Diane Ravitch upends many commonly held assumptions about education reform.

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Geoffrey Canada to Headline Chicago Education Summit

Can Geoffrey Canada's education-reform blueprint transform public school in Chicago?

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Joel Klein: Adults To Blame for Children Being Left Behind

Klein's reflections upon his exit seem to reflect a new dogma shared by education reformers.

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Waiting for Superman's Staged Scene

Did the re-enactment of a scene in Waiting for Superman purposely mislead viewers?

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Animated Short Sums Up America's Education Problem

If this is the way the world already views our education system, we better get to fixing things right away.

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Superman Can Wait, Parents Hold the Power

A revolution in child-rearing that begins with a parent, a child, and a book.

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What's the Parent Trigger?

How parents can turn around failing schools.