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#227 Lessons of Last Resort: the Forgotten History of Direct Instruction

#226 These Parents Are Taking on Big Tech

#225 Canary in a Coalmine

#224 Order in the Court

#223 Budget Committee!

#222 On the Clock

#221 Conservative Civic Centers Are All the Rage

#220 Waste, Fraud and Abuse

#219 Shutting Down

#218 When the Circus Came to Town

#217 Silicon Valley’s Dystopian Vision for Schools

#216 The Blue State Blues

#215 The Fight Over Sex Education

#214 These Conservatives Are Furious About School Vouchers

#213 The Kids are Alright

#212 We’re at each other’s throats. Schools can help.

#211 Silicon Valley’s Vision for Schools is Trapped in a Cold War Fantasy

#210 The Curious Case of Kindergarten

#209 Make Education Great Again

#208 ‘A Lifetime of Hardship’

HY#207 Under the Influence

#206 Race Science is Back. It Never Went Away.

#205 Schools as Sorting Machines

#204 Collision Course

#203 Power in Numbers

#202 College Inside, College Outside

#201 Use It Or Lose It

#200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype

#199 Dangerous Learning, Dangerous Times

#198 Ethnic Studies ‘Works.’ Does That Even Matter Anymore?

#197 Taking America Back (to a Less Educated Past)

#196 The Best Schools You’ve Never Heard Of

#195 Public Education is on the Precipice

#194 Letter to a Trump Voter

#193 All Politics is Local

#192 There’s No Such Thing as a Kinesthetic Learner

#191 These Conservative Texans Oppose School Vouchers

#190 Degrees of Separation

#189 What’s Driving the Republican Party’s Radical Shift on Education?

#188 What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Public Education?

#187 The Politics of Disruption

#186 What is High School For?

#185 Project 1825

#184 Closing Time

#183 Change of Heart

#182 Cut, Fire, Close

#181 It Takes a Village (No, Really)

#180 The Education Wars

#179 School Integration Made Kids Less Conservative

#178 Turning Down the Temperature

#177 The Opposite of Privatization is Publicization

#176 The Idaho Exception

#175 Special Education is Under Threat

#174 Religious Charter Schools are Coming. Be Worried.

#173 Did You Hear the One About the Skills Gap?

#172 Off of the Sidelines

#171 The Damage Done

#170 Can We Please Stop Talking About Harvard?

#169 Can the Democrats Win on Education?

#168 Coming to America

#167 Public Education Needs More Democracy, Not Less

#166 The School Voucher Scam

#165 The Politics of State Takeovers

#164 Plutocratic Philanthropists are Bad for Schools–and Democracy

#163 How to Get Ahead in School Without Really Learning

#162 State of Emergency

#161 AI Is Going to Upend Public Education. Or Maybe Not

#160 There’s No Way to Win the School Culture Wars

#159 The John Birch Society was the Original Moms for Liberty

#158 If We Want to Save Public Education, We’ve Got to Talk About It Differently

#157 Stopping the Privatization Train

#156 Digging Deep into the Education Wars

#155 Teachers Speak Out

#154 High Stakes

#153 The Assault on Public Education is Escalating

#152 The Reading Wars Are Older Than You Think

#151 Divide, Scatter, Conquer

#150 U-Turn: Charter Schools Go Private

#149 The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession

#148 Youth Power

#147 The Big Reveal

#146 Another Border: How Immigrant Families Navigate Higher Education

#145 How the Critical Race Theory Narrative Took Hold

#144 The Attack on Trans Kids and the Rollback of Rights

#143 Moving the Goalposts

#142: The Great Education Divide

#141 How School Privatization Has Undermined Democracy in New Orleans

#140 The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

#139 The Original 'Moms for Liberty'

#138 A Reckoning for Rural Schools

#137 The Rise of the Economists

#136 State of Revolt

#135 Everything Old is New Again

#134 Where the Democrats Went Wrong

#133 What Should Schools Do About Climate Change?

#132 The Enemy Within

#131 School’s Choice

#130 Zombie Ideas in Education Reform

#129 Friends and Enemies

#128 Confessions of a School Reformer