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Melanie Kletter

fourth grade teacher

Melanie Kletter teaches fourth grade in a New York City public school in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. She is also a children’s book reviewer and freelance writer and editor. Melanie worked as a journalist before getting her master’s degree in education at Teachers College. She is an avid runner, biker, and baker, and she loves reading graphic novels and listening to audiobooks with her two school-aged daughters.

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State Takeovers Don’t Work. How About Radically Increasing Support for Communities and Kids Instead?

The evidence that state takeovers don’t work keeps mounting.

Charter Schools aren’t Public Schools. Here’s Why We Need to Change That.

Charter schools have had it both ways when it comes to the public/private divide.

I Never Thought I’d Become a Public School Activist. Then Extremists Took Over the School Board.

I Never Thought I’d Become a Public School Activist. Then Extremists Took Over the School Board.

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