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First bell: 10-5-12

Tyson Eberhardt
10.5.2012

A first look at today's most important education news:

Fordham's latest

"What's next on the school-reform agenda," by Michael J. Petrilli, Flypaper

"Coleman's coming: Look busy!" by Kathleen Porter-Magee, Common Core Watch

"Gotham's exam-school problem," by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Flypaper

"How the parent trigger's biggest advocate harms his own cause," by Adam Emerson, Choice Words

Chicago teachers voted overwhelmingly to approve the new contract negotiated after last month’s strike. (Chicago Tribune)

Education was the top Twitter topic during Wednesday’s presidential debate. (USA Today)

A vocal supporter of school vouchers was named head of Texas’s Senate Education Committee, setting up a new fight over vouchers in the Lone Star State in January when the next legislative session begins. (Houston Chronicle)

The New York Times describes Boston’s efforts to overhaul its school busing system four decades after the city’s busing riots.

One in eight teachers in North Carolina left their jobs last year, a slight increase in the turnover rate. (Associated Press)

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Tyson Eberhardt is online editor and external relations manager at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. A 2008 graduate of Princeton University, Tyson completed the university’s Teacher Preparation Program as a student-teacher in Trenton, New Jersey. Tyson received a M.S.Ed from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education in 2010, focusing his studies on variance among charter schools. Tyson…

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