The Dropout Nation Podcast

With  old-school civil rights group (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2-ZGThPGwW5oy-V-x-Po5_VqSMgD9H71A800)s complaining (https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B36JWPh1Vfr7OTc3ZWI0NDctODVlMC00N2I2LWExNmItZmIyZGEzY2E5Yzlm&hl=en&authkey=CNG2pP4E) about President Barack Obama's emb...

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/category/dropout-nation-podcast/), I examine the debate between congressional Democrats, President Barack Obama and centrist Democrat sc...

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Amid the battles over tenure reform in Florida (http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/15/charlies-teachable-moment), D.C. (http://dropoutnation.net/2010/04/07/slow-clap-teacher-quality-reform/) and el...

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I offer six steps for school reformers and grassroots activists to expand the role of parents (http://dropoutnation.net/2010/...

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast (http://dropoutnation.net/?cat=492), I look at the efforts by the Obama administration to bring districts into Race to the Top (http://www2.ed.gov/programs/raceto...

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This week's Dropout Nation Podcast focuses on California's parent trigger school reform law (along with Connecticut's efforts to pass a similar measure) and why the arguments against it from such skep...

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On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, I analyze President Barack Obama's efforts to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act and argue why neither he -- nor school reformers -- should bother with rea...