Week of March 6, 2017 Archives

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Monday, March 6
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Major Case on Transgender Rights
A. Liptak, NY Times
Reflections on the Revolution in Middlebury
Charles Murray, AEIdeas
Middlebury Shouts Down Charles Murray
Myron Magnet, City Journal
Scuffle and Injury Make Middlebury a Free-Speech Flashpoint
B. Read, Chronicle
New College Entrance Exam Targets Liberal Arts Students
Christopher Beach, RCEd
Trump Tours Private School in Florida, Promoting Choice
J. Lemire & D. Superville, AP
Trump to 4th Grader: Make Money, Don't Go Into Politics
M. Conway, Politico
Two Possible Paths for Trump's School Choice Plan
Andrew Ujifusa, EdWeek
Vouchers Are Not Viable for Vast Swaths of America
N. Campbell & C. Brown, CAP
A Case for a Vigorous Office for Civil Rights
S. Jeffries, Hechinger
13 States, DOJ Settle in Case Over Transgender Student Rights
C. Emma, Politico
New Bill Would Expand Virginia's Charter Schools
Carolyn Phenicie, The74
The Pitfalls, and Promise, of a Federal Tuition Tax Credit
Max Eden, Wash Examiner
Tuesday, March 7
GOP Senator Opposes Repeal of Education Rule
Tim Devaney, The Hill
Republicans Poised to Overturn Obama-era Education Regs
Emma Brown, WaPo
Professor Injured at Middlebury Speaks Out
Robby Soave, Reason
Middlebury Reckons With a Protest Gone Wrong
C. Friedersdorf, Atlantic
SCOTUS Ruling Leaves Schools Without Answers
E. Brown & M. Balingit, WaPo
America's Got Immigrant Talent
Editorial Board, WSJ
Meet the Highest Paid Nonprofit College President in the U.S.
Andrea Fuller, WSJ
Colorado Juniors Face New SAT After State Dumps ACT
Monte Whaley, Denver Post
How Social Media Skewed the Common Core Debate
Kevin Mahnken, The74
What Can Betsy DeVos Really Do?
E. Felton, Hechinger
Asking the Wrong Questions on School Choice
Robert Pondiscio, US News
10 New Ed Tech Startups to Watch
Tim Newcomb, The74
Wednesday, March 8
Kentucky Set to Pass Major Education Legislation
Christopher Beach, RCEd
Middlebury's Violence Reminded Me of the Little Rock Nine
Danielle Allen, WaPo
Smothering Speech at Middlebury
Editorial Board, NY Times
Colleges Are Ground Zero for Attacks on Free Speech
Robert Shibley, WaPo
A Common Core Curriculum Quandary
Mike Petrilli, EducationNext
Has Common Core Challenged Our Students More?
P. Baffour & U. Boser, CAP
The Senate Should Undo Obama's Education Power Grab
R. Hess & M. Eden, NRO
Revitalize Rural America. Forgive Young Farmers Loan Debt.
A. Orlowski, Civil Eats
Why American Universities Need Immigrants
Jonathan Cole, Atlantic
Have Teachers' Unions Benefitted From the DeVos Fight?
Mike Antonucci, The74
How Betsy DeVos's Education Agenda Can Be Overturned
Helen Gym, The Nation
Thursday, March 9
Senate Blocks Teacher Prep Rules
C. Phenicie, The74
Michelle Rhee: 'It's Going to Be Really Hard Going Forward'
V. Strauss, WaPo
Harvard Law School to Allow Applicants to Take GRE
Jacob Gershman, WSJ
Betsy DeVos's Holy War on Education
Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone
Make More Space for Charters
E. Moskowitz, I. Rowe & L. Long, NY Daily News
LA School Board Races Are Historically Expensive
Edwin Rios, Mother Jones
Diversity Lags at New York City High Schools
E. Harris, NY Times
Attention Middlebury Students: Progressives Loved Eugenics
George Will, WaPo
The Hoosier Jobs Experiment
Editorial Board, WSJ
Getting Into College Is Easier Than You Think
Greg Daugherty, Hechinger
Too Many Districts Leave Bright Students Behind
J. Dwyer & C. Welch, Fordham
Friday, March 10
Senate Scraps Obama Regulations on School Accountability
Emma Brown, WaPo
A Sweeping Change in How We Will Rate (and Fix) Schools
C. Phenicie, The74
McCarthyism at Middlebury
Daniel Henninger, WSJ
Governors Who Are Linking Ed Tech and Rural Education
Jenn Hatfield, AEIdeas
School Choice and the Future of American Education
L. Darling-Hammond, The Nation
Why the Left Should Work With Betsy DeVos
Jennifer Steele, Ed Week
Parents of Transgender Kids Meet With DeVos
Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News
America's School Facilities Get a Near-Failing Grade
L. Thomas & J. Schoen, CNBC
How a Fight over Charters Sparked Wave of New Applications
R. Whitmire, The74
A School Where Raising the Bar Lifts Hope
S. Butrymowicz, NY Times
Why Sports and Elite Academics Do Not Mix
Jonathan Cole, Atlantic
Teacher Prep Programs: Under Pressure and Making Progress
Eric Steinhauer, ETS
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