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YMCA, Dartmouth Medical School and the Institute for American Values2003
YMCA, Dartmouth Medical School and the Institute for American Values2003
Julian R. Betts and PPIC's Andrew C. Zau and Lorien A. Rice, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)2003
Karl T. Kurtz, Alan Rosenthal, and Cliff Zukin, National Conference of State LegislaturesSeptember 2003
Christopher B. Swanson, Education Policy Center, The Urban InstituteAugust 2003
Christopher Mazzeo, National Governors Association's Center for Best PracticesSeptember 2003.
We welcome a new player on the education-choice team, the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, or Hispanic CREO. The group was launched today at the National Press Club, with a follow-up conference in Washington and the release of a new study on Hispanic students and choice, authored by Jay Greene of the Manhattan Institute.
The latest issue of National Review contains a special section on education, featuring Victor Davis Hanson (a contributor to Fordham's recent publication Terrorists, Despots, and Democracy: What Our Children Need to Know) on the Iraq War and college campuses.
In August, the Marysville, Washington school superintendent refused to comply with 30 union demands, including across-the-board raises that would have cost the district $14 million. And so, on September 1st - the first day of school, chosen to cause maximum chaos - Marysville teachers began what is about to become the longest strike in the state's history.
Standardized tests may be under attack in America but they turn out to be a godsend for Russian parents. That nation's college entrance exams, relics of the Communist era, are specific to each university and usually involve professors drilling applicants in an oral exam.
"If men were angels," Madison wrote in Federalist #51, "no government would be necessary."