American - Journalist | June 14, 1968 -
Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
Campbell Brown
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The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
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While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
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