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October 29, 2014
This Is What Happens When You Criticize Teach for America
An internal memo reveals how TFA’s obsessive PR game covers up its lack of results in order to justify greater expansion.
George Joseph
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September 24, 2014
The Tough Lessons of the 1968 Teacher Strikes
To building a lasting peace between teachers unions and communities of color, we can’t forget their most painful battle of all.
Dana Goldstein
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September 24, 2014
How to Destroy a Public-School System
In Philadelphia, education reformers got everything they wanted. Look where the city’s schools are now.
Daniel Denvir
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September 24, 2014
What Happens When Your Teacher Is a Video Game?
Education reformers want to use technology in the classroom—for almost everything.
Gordon Lafer
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April 15, 2014
Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs, but Teach for America’s Expanding. What’s Wrong With That?
Even the organization’s own recruits are uncomfortable with its explosive growth.
Alexandra Hootnick
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April 8, 2014
Why Are Black Students Facing Corporal Punishment in Public Schools?
A growing controversy over use of the “paddle” to discipline children has a painful racial subtext.
Sarah Carr
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January 29, 2014
Tested
Diane Ravitch’s latest call-to-arms against the privatization of public schools.
Joseph Featherstone
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March 29, 2013
Shocking Rahm’s Shock Doctrine
Mayor Emanuel’s flash school-closing announcement is meeting civil disobeidence from Chicago teachers—who are having no trouble poking gaping holes in every one of the city’s arguments.
Rick Perlstein