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Is a Free Education a Fundamental Right?
(This article originally appeared on cnn.com.) Should your zip code determine your access to the American dream? Or is the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee to provide “equal protection” a principle we...
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Other People’s Children
Last week, CNN reported on recent events in Garfield Heights, Ohio, where austerity measures have led local school officials to shorten the schoolday to five hours, get rid of subjects like art, music,...
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How Much Parent Power is Too Much?
Should parents who are unhappy with their local school have the power to replace the entire staff, turn it into a charter school, or shut it down completely – even if just 51% of the school’s families...
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“Standardization” is not a dirty word
The reviews are in — in 2013, inequality is out, and equality is in. “Each time we gather to inaugurate a president,” President Obama began on Monday morning, “we bear witness to the enduring strength...
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To Fix Public Education, Let’s Eliminate Private Schools
While hardcore progressives and Tea Party activists continue cozying up to each other in a shared rejection of the Common Core, I have a radical proposal to make – and it might just be crazy enough to...
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Something’s Happening Here . . .
In the span of a few weeks, all of DC seems to be abuzz with the prospect that our elected officials may actually try to ensure greater racial and socioeconomic equity in the city’s public schools —...
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OK, Brown v. Board is 60; Now What?
As I travel around the country this month, participating in public conversations about the promise and peril of school choice, it seems fitting that right as we marked the 60th anniversary of the Brown...
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This is what every student could look like (and be)
Here’s the thing about me: I love schools. And I’m in them all the time. Lots of them, all over the country. So it’s safe to say that I am as aware as just about anyone what is out there when it comes...
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The Beautiful Struggle
I’ve yet to meet a grown-up who, at some point, hasn’t felt a bit like a hamster in the wheel – spinning mindlessly towards some opaque goal, and for some abstract, poorly understood reason. Life can...
View ArticleThis film about a public Montessori school in Memphis says everything about...
I am so proud of our newest film for 180 Studio. At its most literal, A Little Piece of Something is a story about a public Montessori school in Memphis that is changing the way people think — about...
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