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Learning in Deed: The power of service learning for American schools
The National Commission on Service-LearningJanuary 2002
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America vs. Singapore
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Transforming the American High School: New Directions for State and Local Policy
Michael Cohen, Jobs for the Future and The Aspen InstituteDecember 2001
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School Dropouts: Education Could Play a Stronger Role in Identifying and Disseminating Promising Prevention Strategies
General Accounting OfficeFebruary 1, 2002
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Rethinking teacher professionalism
The big problem with the usual approaches to improving schools is that we fiddle with all kinds of things except the one thing that really matters, which is instructional practice, according to Harvard's Dick Elmore. Putting pressure on schools to improve won't work unless teachers know what to do at the level of practice, and Elmore says they don't.
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AP, IB programs teach too much, critics say
For years, the advocates of standards-based reform have held up Advanced Placement tests and the International Baccalaureate as models: a clearly defined syllabus; a teacher who is prepared to teach that syllabus; a course based on the syllabus; an end-of-course examination.
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Winners and losers in DC's special ed lottery
Just because the D.C. public schools are failing to provide special education services for many children doesn't mean the school district isn't spending pots of money on special ed. A pair of articles in this week's Washington Post shed unhappy light on where some of that money is going.