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Wednesday will be the first day of my last year of high school. Like any other senior, I'm excited to be close to the end. But unlike students in other places, I'm starting school year in a town that survived a tornado: Joplin, Missouri.

Schooling for Success

CNN Education Contributor Steve Perry is the founder and principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut, and author of the education book, "Push Has Come to Shove," to be released in September 2011. In "Perry's Principles: Schooling for Success," he identifies challenges in modern education and looks for solutions. Watch Perry on Thursdays on AC360, and on weekends on CNN and HLN. FULL STORY

Opinion

The vote to endorse President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012 by the nation's largest teachers' union was not exactly a surprise.  FULL STORY
William J. Bennett is the Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988.
William J. Bennett is the Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988.