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The Race | |
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Juicy Words | |
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The Epiphanies | |
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�Be Obedient. Be Good. Keep Your Mouth Shut.� | |
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�If an Unfriendly Foreign Power Had Attempted …� | |
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A �Hopelessly Na�ve� Thesis | |
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A Governor and a President Take Center Stage | |
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Payroll to Payroll | |
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Lighting Up the Capitol Switchboard | |
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The Backlash | |
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Schoolyard Classroom | |
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The Discovery: �Good Teaching Matters� | |
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The Network | |
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No Child Left Behind | |
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�Don't Worry, It's Just a Parent� | |
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�The Union Won't Allow It� | |
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�The Idea Wasn't Just to Keep Them from Killing Somebody� | |
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�How Could the Democrats Be Against This?� | |
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Seeing George Soros's Apartment | |
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New York Realities | |
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�Our Party Has Got to Wake Up on This� | |
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The Co-location Trap | |
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Creating a New School System the Hard Way | |
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�Colorado Says Half of You Won't Graduate� | |
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The Pol and the Moneymen | |
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Foxes in the Henhouse | |
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Mounting Evidence | |
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�This Just Seemed So Obvious� | |
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More Money, No Hassles | |
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Building Harlem Success | |
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�This Is Not a Self-Esteem Movement� | |
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�You Really Don't Want to Hire Me� | |
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�Pulling the Rug Out� | |
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Money Meets Data | |
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Hillary for Teachers, Teachers for Hillary | |
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Forward, Backward in New York | |
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$45,000 Well Spent | |
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�Faceless Bureaucracy� | |
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Back in the Classroom | |
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Quarantine the Data | |
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Climbing the Ladder | |
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Rhee's Choice: Your Union or $130,000 | |
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Turning Around the USS Gates | |
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The New Democrats | |
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Two Returns to the Classroom | |
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�Wake Up, Obama Just Talked About You� | |
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�Inside Baseball� | |
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�What Do You Guys Think You Could Do with a Hundred Billion?� | |
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The Chosen Four | |
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�They'll Do Backflips� | |
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�Things I Can't Change from This Building� | |
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Widgets | |
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Agreement in Pittsburgh | |
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The Opposite of Venture Capital | |
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�Outcomes, Not Achievement� | |
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�Obfuscating the Issue … Fooling the Reviewers� | |
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A Shriek on Park Avenue | |
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The Feinberg Gambit | |
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School Reform: The Movie | |
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Firing Everyone | |
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�My Baby Is Reading� | |
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Going Over to the Other Side | |
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A �Baffling� Round One | |
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�Varnish on a Sinking Ship� | |
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Two Winners | |
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Back on the Horse in Colorado | |
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Billionaires Trapped in an Elevator | |
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Rhee's Breakthrough | |
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�He Met with Everyone� | |
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A New York Breakthrough-or Mirage? | |
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Rocky Mountain High | |
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�Honored, Humbled, Hopeful-and Horrified� | |
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�She's de Klerk in South Africa. We Have to Help Her.� | |
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The Quiet Revolution | |
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�Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire� | |
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Klein's and Mulgrew's �Wonderful Negotiation� | |
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From Inside Baseball to Public Accountability | |
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�Arne, Here's the Column You've Been Missing� | |
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Soaring Dreams, Street-Level Politics | |
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Rhee Rejected | |
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I'll E-mail Your Dad and Tell Him� | |
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The �Mujahideen� and the Moderates | |
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Punch, Counterpunch | |
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A Marathon, Not a Sprint | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Sources | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |