The impact of teacher labor agreements on school and district leadership is less straightforward than many previous accounts suggest.

Chris Christie has shown that confrontational leadership can get results and produce more admirers than detractors. Barack Obama has shown that lack of leadership leaves pretty much everyone dissatisfied.

The Obama administration will need to decide whether, on trade issues, it has now cast its lot with a coalition of pro-trade Republicans and internationalist Democrats, or whether it has pushed its labor allies as far as it dares.

School principals are held accountable for raising student achievement without being given the authority to get the job done.

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Prominent voices have claimed that trade agreements have cost American jobs and exacerbated wage inequality. These claims cause particular alarm in a time of high unemployment and have taken a toll on public support for trade.

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