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Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy.
Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy.
PROFILE
Michael Hansen
FROM Michael Hansen
To the Point
Teachers are battling back Teachers are mad as hell in several red states. They’re walking out over cuts in pay and reductions in classroom support. It’s a grass-roots rebellion from West Virginia to Kentucky and Arizona. Will it renew support for the value of public education in a changing economy?
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