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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 Naive" 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 HelpHer | |
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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 | |