Predicting Success, Preventing Failure: An Investigation of the California High School Exit Exam
Andrew C. Zau and Julian R. BettsPublic Policy Institute of California2008
Andrew C. Zau and Julian R. BettsPublic Policy Institute of California2008
Janet Hyde, Sara Lindberg, Marcia Linn, Amy Ellis, Caroline WilliamsNational Science FoundationJuly 2008
Emily Cohen, Kate Walsh, and RiShawn BiddleNational Center on Teacher QualityJuly 2008
Mayoral control of schools is surely no silver bullet, but in the case of Baltimore, where Mayor Sheila Dixon is, according to the Baltimore Sun, "floating the idea" of taking over the schools, it would be a leaden musket ball.
All hail ProComp!, we once were impelled, for it hath shown that teachers' unions and reformers can work together for good. Not so fast.
Is this the summer of school reform discontent, when the core assumptions of the past decade are reexamined? Are assumptions such as those that gave birth to the "Washington Consensus," which in turn created No Child Left Behind, being questioned anew? So it appears.
Every four years, it seems, enterprising campaign staff put out talking points about how their candidate wants to "help" failing schools improve, not just batter them for their poor performance. And this year's rhetoric is no different.
Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabbarok writes about females and math.
George Leef is no fan of David Brooks's column??in yesterday's New York Times (which we we
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