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Chicago Teachers Union begins strike authorization vote Posted: 21 Sep 2016 10:38 AM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district are casting ballots on whether they support a strike.

Don't Blame the Teachers Posted: 21 Sep 2016 04:30 AM PDT Why has the topic of teacher quality suddenly reached such a crescendo? Education reform has been on the national agenda since 1983, the year of A Nation at Risk, but only in the last few years has the teacher-quality issue risen to the top. I think it may be reform fatigue, possibly desperation. The teacher is becoming a convenient scapegoat for America's education reformers, who, after decades of ideas that have not panned out, cling to the belief that the flaw is not in the reform ideas themselves but in their implementation.

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