This year’s TIME list of 12 education activists to watch in 2012 is out. Agree with them or not all of last year’s 11 for 11 made a difference in ways public and private and this year’s will, too, as 2012 unfolds. A few more behind the scenes but influential players this year (but also some stars), but that’s the kind of year it may be.

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