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One More Time: The Average American K-12 Student is Doing Fine Relative to the International Baseline

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You Can't Defend a Policy By Getting Angry at the Suggestion That It's Benefitted People

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Subscriber Writing, May 2026

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The Vicious, Potentially Fatal Anti-Public School Propaganda Cycle

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It's Time For Some People to Let Me Go

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Call for Subscriber Writing, May 2026

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Please Stop Making Reductive Claims About Economic Hardship and Mental Health

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The Consensus Draft Board Debate is Sports Culture War at Its Worst

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On Shoplifting as Radical Praxis

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We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring

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The School Reformer "Accountability Era" Narrative Simply Does Not Add Up

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Why People Hate Lena Dunham

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What is Left of "Believe Women"?

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Young Adult Novels, Starring Various Pundits, That I Made Up

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Real Feelings for Fake Beauty

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Perhaps There Are Options Other Than "Toxic Confidence" and Insecurity-as-Identity

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We Have to Hold the Line Against the Cruel Pseudoscience of Facilitated Communication

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Stephen Policoff's "A Ribbon For Your Hair"

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Subscriber Writing, March 2026

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When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"

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