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I went through all of high school and most of college with President Barack Obama. I am part of a micro-generation of Americans whose notions of politics a

As a busy high school student with a demanding schedule, the last thing I wanted to add to my plate was yet another standardized test. But two years ago, m

I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and came across this piece of news: Kipp Ignite Academy has received $100,000 through a Farmers Insurance Thank Am

In recent years, the majority of states have adopted the Common Core State Standards for K-12 mathematics and English language arts. Even though these stan

This fall I had the privilege of attending a convening hosted by the U.S. Department of Education on the cultural practices of schools across the United St

I recently spoke to a handful of young women at a high school in North Carolina who had taken an international test that is getting a lot of attention—the

As advocates for public school choice, we disagree strongly with the NAACP’s call for a moratorium on charter schools and have published numerous opinion p

On Monday, New Schools for New Orleans joined with Xavier University of Louisiana, to announce the launch of the Norman C. Francis Teacher Residency—a part

If you want to kill a good idea just set impossible conditions for its success and it will die trying to meet them. That’s the apparent strategy behind the