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Answer Sheet: Teacher: What Happened When I Stopped Viewing My Students as Data Points

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Valerie Strauss and Justin Parmenter

October 12, 2017

Answer Sheet: Why the School ‘Accountability Movement’ Based on Standardized Tests is Nothing More than ‘A Charade’

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Valerie Strauss

October 6, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Do Traditional Public Schools Benefit from Charter Competition?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

August 29, 2017

The Answer Sheet: This ALEC State Report Card Speaks Volumes about Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda

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Valerie Strauss

August 15, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Problems with Charter Schools That You Won’t Hear Betsy DeVos Talk About

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

June 23, 2017

The Answer Sheet: The Long Game of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

June 2, 2017

The Answer Sheet: The Problems with 2017 National Rankings of America’s High Schools

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Valerie Strauss

May 23, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Personal Data is Collected on Kids at School All the Time. Here’s Help for Parents to Protect Children’s Privacy.

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Valerie Strauss, Leonie Haimson, and Rachael Stickland

May 18, 2017

The Answer Sheet: There Are Better Ways Than Suspension to Discipline Kids. Here Are Two Schools Doing Just That.

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

May 12, 2017

The Answer Sheet: How Three Schools Creatively Face the Challenge of Educating Immigrant Students

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

May 9, 2017

The Answer Sheet: What the Public Isn’t Told About High-Performing Charter Schools in Arizona

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

March 30, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Academics Are Only Part of the Education This School Offers Its Diverse Student Body

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 13, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Study: Private School Vouchers Favored By DeVos Don’t Offer Real Advantage Over Public Schools

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Valerie Strauss

March 1, 2017

The Answer Sheet: More Than Test Scores: ‘Schools of Opportunity’ to Recognize High Schools That Create Full Learning

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Adam York

February 15, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Curriculum Matters: How These Four Schools Engage All Students in Learning

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

January 25, 2017

The Answer Sheet: Education Deans to Trump: We’re ‘Seriously Concerned’ About Your Agenda

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Valerie Strauss

January 17, 2017

The Answer Sheet: This School Isn’t Just About Academics. The Emotional and Physical Health of Kids Matters Too.

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

December 21, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Almost All Students Here are Refugees — and They Speak 16 Uncommon Languages. How this School Makes it Work.

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Linda Molner Kelley

December 2, 2016

The Answer Sheet: This School Was on the Brink of Closure. Here’s How It Saved Itself

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

November 3, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why the Shine is Off the Charter School Movement

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

October 26, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why California’s Charter School Sector is Called 'the Wild West’

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 29, 2016

The Answer Sheet: School Reform: What Went Wrong, What Went Right, and What We Should Do in the Future

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Valerie Strauss, William J. Mathis, and Tina Trujillo

September 21, 2016

The Answer Sheet: The 20 Schools That Won 2016 Schools of Opportunity Awards — And Why They Were Selected

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, Carol C. Burris, and Michelle Renée Valladares

September 12, 2016

The Answer Sheet: How Messed Up is California’s Charter School Sector? You Won’t Believe How Much.

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 9, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Will the Thing That Charter Schools Love So Much Be Their Undoing?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

August 29, 2016

The Answer Sheet: NAACP Members Call for Ban on Privately Managed Charter Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

August 10, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Why Charter Schools Get Public Education Advocates So Angry

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

July 25, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Common Core Isn’t Preparing Students Very Well for College or Career, New Report Says

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Valerie Strauss

June 13, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Alice in PARCCland: Does ‘Validity Study’ Really Prove the Common Core Test is Valid?

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Valerie Strauss and William J. Mathis

June 1, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Schools Are Now ‘Soft Targets’ for Companies to Collect Data and Market to Kids — Report

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Valerie Strauss

May 17, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A Master Teacher Went to Court to Challenge Her Low Evaluation. What Her Win Means for Her Profession

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

May 11, 2016

The Answer Sheet: No, Great Schools Can’t Close Achievement Gaps All By Themselves

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 23, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Education Researchers Blast Common Core Standards, Urge Ban on High-Stakes Tests

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Valerie Strauss

March 17, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A ‘Broader Bolder’ Approach to Even the Education Playing Field

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Elaine Weiss and Valerie Strauss

February 24, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A Worthwhile Opportunity for Public High Schools - Deadline Approaching

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

January 14, 2016

The Answer Sheet: The Disturbing Provisions About Teacher Preparation in No Child Left Behind Rewrite

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Valerie Strauss and Kenneth M. Zeichner

December 7, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Project to Recognize ‘High Schools of Opportunity’ for All Students Goes National

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

November 13, 2015

The Answer Sheet: ‘Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job:’ Five Big Mistakes in Education Technology and How to Fix Them

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Yong Zhao and Valerie Strauss

October 6, 2015

The Answer Sheet: What the New SAT Scores Reveal about Modern School Reform

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 9, 2015

The Answer Sheet: A Critical Look at the Annual High School Rankings by U.S. News

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

August 10, 2015

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