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Education Reform

  1. the national interest
    After Affirmative Action, We Can Still Fix the Education PipelineShrinking the education gap is the best answer.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. the national interest
    National Study Shows Charters Outperform Traditional SchoolsEducation-reform skeptics’ favorite fact is officially false.
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. the national interest
    Why Republicans Are Embracing Vouchers Even Though They Don’t WorkIt’s not about educational outcomes anymore.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. the national interest
    Biden Abandons the Obama Legacy on Charter SchoolsThe Education Department chooses teachers unions over poor kids.
    By Jonathan Chait
  5. the national interest
    Democrats Must Defeat the Left’s War on School AchievementSchool closings are over, but the fight over learning loss isn’t.
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. the national interest
    Elizabeth Warren Tells Poor Parents to Fix Their Own SchoolsPresidential candidate boasts of helping to kill effective reform, tells urban parents to deal with it themselves.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. the national interest
    Bernie Sanders Wants to Destroy the Best Schools Poor Urban Kids HaveBernie’s worst policy idea.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. the national interest
    Reformers, Unions Hate Each Other But Both Love Kamala Harris’s Teacher Pay PlanAn education plan that hits the sweet spot.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. the national interest
    What Happens When Elizabeth Warren Sells Out to Powerful Interests?A great presidential candidate has an Achilles’ heel.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. These Urban Experiments Prove Charles Murray Is Wrong About Race ScienceThe achievement gap between black and white children can be closed with the right environment.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. the national interest
    Obama’s Education Legacy Has Been Forgotten. Now He Has to Save It.The least-known reform of the Obama era is at risk.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. the national interest
    Charters Didn’t Cause Segregation. They’re a Solution for its Victims.Don’t wait for residential segregation to disappear before helping urban students.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. the national interest
    Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the DataThe New York Times concludes that America’s worst charter system is … actually not that bad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. Here’s How to Tell That Trump’s Budget Doesn’t Care at All About Poor PeopleForget what Trump does to programs liberals think help poor people. Look at what he does to programs Trump thinks help poor people.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. the national interest
    Will Trump Give Education Reform the Kiss of Death?Run away, Eva Moskowitz.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. the national interest
    Esquire Writer Doesn’t Understand Charter Schools, Is Sure They’re Up to No GoodPoor kids can take pride in the sacrifice they have made for the cause of sticking it to The Man.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. the national interest
    Education Reform Works in Massachusetts. Will Voters Care?It’s one of the most important tests of social justice and economic mobility of any election in America this fall.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. the national interest
    Teachers Still Haven’t Forgiven Michelle RheeAnybody want to know the education bogeywoman actually helped students?
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. the national interest
    Obama Wants to Give Poor Schools More Money. Guess Who’s Blocking Him.Republicans and teachers unions, working together.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. the national interest
    Education Reform Is Not That Popular, But It’s Still WorkingAn important study in Washington, D.C., public schools.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. the national interest
    How New Orleans Proved Urban-Education Reform Can WorkA decade after Katrina, a breakthrough triumph of social policy.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. the national interest
    Will Hillary Clinton Continue Education Reform?It’s the biggest mystery of her platform, and she isn’t saying.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national interest
    How Campbell Brown Became a Hate FigureThoughts on a great profile.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. education
    How Campbell Brown Became the Most Controversial Woman in School ReformShe’s managed to make a lot of enemies, thanks to her new mission.
    By Vanessa Grigoriadis
  25. education
    How Campbell Brown Became the Most Controversial Woman in School ReformThe ex–news anchor has managed to make a lot of enemies, thanks to her new mission.
    By Vanessa Grigoriadis
  26. the national interest
    Why Do Teacher Unions Hate Eva Moskowitz?There may be an obvious reason we’re overlooking.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. the national interest
    Ravitch: Campbell Brown Too Pretty to Be SmartAn edifying turn in the education-reform debate.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. the national interest
    Times Story on Charter Schools Insanely HostileAn exposé of a deviously successful plot to help poor children learn.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. standardized testing
    SAT Returning to Classic 1600-Point Format in Second-Ever RedesignNo more essays, but lots of Twitter jokes.
    By Adam Martin
  30. the national interest
    Public Education’s Weird Ideological DivideHow did Diane Ravitch’s reactionary nostalgia become “liberal,” again?
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. the national interest
    Teachers Cheating on Tests: Not a Big DealPeople cheat at stuff sometimes when they’re trying to get ahead. The solution isn’t to not encourage them to get ahead.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. the national interest
    You Get the Teachers You Pay For Pay teachers badly and you’ll get a lot of bad teachers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. school daze
    Michelle Rhee: Fine, Investigate Sketchy Test Results From My TenureSee if she cares.
    By Chris Rovzar
  34. for the kids
    Obama Shifts Gears to Education ReformObama will share his policy wish list with lawmakers on Monday.
    By Zeke Turner