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The race
Juicy words
The epiphanies
"Be obedient. Be good. Keep your mouth shut."
"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted ..."
A "hopelessly naïve" thesis
A governor and a president take center stage
Payroll to payroll
Lighting up the capitol switchboard
The backlash
Schoolyard classroom
The discovery : "good teaching matters"
The network
No child left behind
"Don't worry, it's just a parent"
"The union won't allow it"
"The idea wasn't just to keep them from killing somebody"
"How could the Democrats be against this?"
Seeing George Soros's apartment
New York realities
"Our party has got to wake up on this"
The co-location trap
Creating a new school system the hard way
"Colorado says half of you won't graduate"
The pol and the moneymen
Foxes in the henhouse
Mounting evidence
"This just seemed so obvious"
More money, no hassles
Building Harlem success
"This is not a self-esteem movement"
"You really don't want to hire me"
"Pulling the rug out"
Money meets data
Hillary for teachers, teachers for Hillary
Forward, backward in New York
$45,000 well spent
"Faceless bureaucracy"
Back in the classroom
Quarantine the data
Climbing the ladder
Rhee's choice : your union or $130,000
Turning around the USS Gates
The new Democrats
Two returns to the classroom
"Wake up, Obama just talked about you"
"Inside baseball"
"What do you guys think you could do with a hundred billion?"
The chosen four
"They'll do backflips"
"Things I can't change from this building"
Widgets
Agreement in Pittsburgh
The opposite of venture capital
"Outcomes, not achievement"
"Obfuscating the issue ... fooling the reviewers"
A shriek on Park Avenue
The Feinberg gambit
School reform : the movie
Firing everyone
"My baby is reading"
Going over to the other side
A "baffling" round one
"Varnish on a sinking ship"
Two winners
Back on the horse in Colorado
Billionaires trapped in an elevator
Rhee's breakthrough
"He met with everyone"
A New York breakthrough
or mirage?
Rocky Mountain high
"Honored, humbled, hopeful
and horrified"
"She's de Klerk in South Africa. We have to help her."
The quiet revolution
"Teach like your hair's on fire"
Klein's and Mulgrew's "wonderful negotiation"
From inside baseball to public accountability
"Arne, here's the column you've been missing"
Soaring dreams, street-level politics
Rhee rejected
"I'll email your dad and tell him"
The "Mujahideen" and the moderates
Punch, counterpunch
A marathon, not a sprint.
Juicy words
The epiphanies
"Be obedient. Be good. Keep your mouth shut."
"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted ..."
A "hopelessly naïve" thesis
A governor and a president take center stage
Payroll to payroll
Lighting up the capitol switchboard
The backlash
Schoolyard classroom
The discovery : "good teaching matters"
The network
No child left behind
"Don't worry, it's just a parent"
"The union won't allow it"
"The idea wasn't just to keep them from killing somebody"
"How could the Democrats be against this?"
Seeing George Soros's apartment
New York realities
"Our party has got to wake up on this"
The co-location trap
Creating a new school system the hard way
"Colorado says half of you won't graduate"
The pol and the moneymen
Foxes in the henhouse
Mounting evidence
"This just seemed so obvious"
More money, no hassles
Building Harlem success
"This is not a self-esteem movement"
"You really don't want to hire me"
"Pulling the rug out"
Money meets data
Hillary for teachers, teachers for Hillary
Forward, backward in New York
$45,000 well spent
"Faceless bureaucracy"
Back in the classroom
Quarantine the data
Climbing the ladder
Rhee's choice : your union or $130,000
Turning around the USS Gates
The new Democrats
Two returns to the classroom
"Wake up, Obama just talked about you"
"Inside baseball"
"What do you guys think you could do with a hundred billion?"
The chosen four
"They'll do backflips"
"Things I can't change from this building"
Widgets
Agreement in Pittsburgh
The opposite of venture capital
"Outcomes, not achievement"
"Obfuscating the issue ... fooling the reviewers"
A shriek on Park Avenue
The Feinberg gambit
School reform : the movie
Firing everyone
"My baby is reading"
Going over to the other side
A "baffling" round one
"Varnish on a sinking ship"
Two winners
Back on the horse in Colorado
Billionaires trapped in an elevator
Rhee's breakthrough
"He met with everyone"
A New York breakthrough
or mirage?
Rocky Mountain high
"Honored, humbled, hopeful
and horrified"
"She's de Klerk in South Africa. We have to help her."
The quiet revolution
"Teach like your hair's on fire"
Klein's and Mulgrew's "wonderful negotiation"
From inside baseball to public accountability
"Arne, here's the column you've been missing"
Soaring dreams, street-level politics
Rhee rejected
"I'll email your dad and tell him"
The "Mujahideen" and the moderates
Punch, counterpunch
A marathon, not a sprint.