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The Answer Sheet: Are These Really the Best High Schools in the Country?

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

August 10, 2015

The Answer Sheet: How Three Schools Challenge Their Diverse Student Populations

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

July 16, 2015

The Answer Sheet: ‘Well I’ll Be VAMned!’ Why Using Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers is a Sham

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

July 9, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Tired of Hearing About Failing Schools? Here are Four that Work

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

July 1, 2015

The Answer Sheet: How One School Changed its Academic Culture

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

June 19, 2015

The Answer Sheet: A Rare ‘Defy the Odds’ School Where Learning Isn’t Driven by High-Stakes Tests

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

June 15, 2015

The Answer Sheet: How One Majority-Minority School Fosters a College-Going Culture

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

May 27, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Why the Movement to Opt Out of Common Core Tests is a Big Deal

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Carol C. Burris

May 4, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Educators Alarmed by Some Questions on N.Y. Common Core Tests

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

April 20, 2015

The Answer Sheet: What the ‘Thoughtless’ N.Y. Government Just Did to Teachers

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

April 3, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Baloney

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

March 2, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal: ‘There Comes a Time When Rules Must Be Broken...That Time is Now.’

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 23, 2015

The Answer Sheet: More Than 500 Researchers Sign NCLB Letter to Congress: Stop Test-Focused Reforms

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Valerie Strauss

February 16, 2015

The Answer Sheet: No Child Left Behind’s Test-Based Policies Failed. Will Congress Keep Them Anyway?

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and William J. Mathis

February 16, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal: What I’ve Learned About Annual Standardized Testing

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

February 5, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Principal to Congress: I Was Wrong When I Supported NCLB. Learn From My Mistake

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 20, 2015

The Answer Sheet: Teacher Evaluation: Going from Bad to Worse

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

January 6, 2015

The Answer Sheet: What Arne Duncan’s New Senior Adviser Did to N.Y. Schools

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

December 17, 2014

The Answer Sheet: If Teachers are Judged by Student Test Scores, How About State Education Leaders?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

December 11, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Are We on the Verge of an End to Test-Based Accountability?

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

December 8, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Principal Uncovers Flawed Data in Her State’s Official Education Reports

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

November 24, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Does Arne Duncan Think ‘Suburban Moms’ are a Gullible Bunch?

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

October 27, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Actually, We Do Know if High-Quality Preschool Benefits Kids. What the Research Really Says

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Valerie Strauss and W. Steven Barnett

October 22, 2014

The Answer Sheet: How to Start Cleaning up the Common Core

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Carol C. Burris and Valerie Strauss

October 8, 2014

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: Carol Burris: A New Way to Honor Successful Schools

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Diane Ravitch

October 3, 2014

The Answer Sheet:’ Schools of Opportunity’ — A New Project to Recognize Schools That Give All Students a Chance to Succeed

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

October 2, 2014

Susan Ohanian.org: Colorado Teacher: ‘I Refuse To Administer the PARCC’ Common Core Test To My Students

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Susan Ohanian

September 26, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Four Common Core ‘Flimflams’

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

September 17, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Does Holding Kids Back a Year Help Them Academically? No. But Schools Still Do It.

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Valerie Strauss and P.L. Thomas

September 11, 2014

The Answer Sheet: What New Common Core Test Scores Really Show

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Carol C. Burris and Valerie Strauss

August 27, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Common Core Tests Fail Kids in New York Again. Here’s How

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Valerie Strauss, Carol C. Burris, and Bianca Tanis

August 18, 2014

The Answer Sheet: How College Remediation Rates are Distorted - And Why

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Carol C. Burris and Valerie Strauss

July 8, 2014

The Answer Sheet: A Disturbing Look at Common Core Tests in New York

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John Murphy, Carol C. Burris, and Valerie Strauss

June 30, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Aren’t California Tenure Policies in Fact Unreasonable? Plus 4 More Vergara Questions Asked and Answered

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Kevin G. Welner and Valerie Strauss

June 19, 2014

The Answer Sheet: A Silver Lining in the Vergara Decision?

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Kevin G. Welner and Valerie Strauss

June 12, 2014

The Answer Sheet: The Real Story Behind Drop in Scores on N.Y. Regents Exams

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John Murphy, Carol C. Burris, and Valerie Strauss

June 4, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Actually, Louis C.K. Was Right About Common Core — Ravitch

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Valerie Strauss and Diane Ravitch

May 7, 2014

The Answer Sheet: The Scary Way Common Core Test ‘Cut Scores’ are Selected

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Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

April 29, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Arne Duncan Dismisses Critics: ‘Lots of Drama, Lots of Noise’

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Carol C. Burris and Valerie Strauss

April 18, 2014

The Answer Sheet: Who Should Decide Who Is College Material and Who Isn’t?

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

March 26, 2014

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