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A Decade of Charter Schools: From Theory to Practice
Katrina Bulkley and Jennifer Fisler, Consortium for Policy Research in EducationApril 2002
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Building a Plane While Flying It: Early Lessons from Developing Charter Schools
Noelle C. Griffin and Priscilla Wohlstetter, Teachers College RecordApril 2001
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No Child Left Behind Act: A Description of State Responsibilities
Council of Chief State School OfficersApril 2002 (draft)
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Teaching American students to hate America
In the belief that public understanding of the Middle East will strengthen American security, the government subsidizes the work of Middle Eastern studies programs at universities around the country. But while trying to encourage the study of foreign languages and areas of the world that pose a challenge to U.S.
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The pitfalls of value-added analysis
In recent months, policymakers and policy wonks alike have been singing the praises of value-added analysis, which focuses on the achievement gains that a school or teacher elicits rather than just looking at how high the students score, since high or low scores of students in a school may reflect the socioeconomic makeup of the student body (and other "input" variables) rather than the quality
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Putting the memorial back in Memorial Day
Secretary of Education Rod Paige is asking teachers to help reclaim Memorial Day for its intended purpose of honoring those who have died in service to our country.
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Collective bargaining and education policy
Considerable attention has recently focused on a bill (AB 2160) working its way through the California legislature that would expand the scope of collective bargaining beyond wages and working conditions to include matters of education policy such as curriculum and textbooks. The bill has the strong support of the California Teachers Association, the state's largest teacher union.
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Expansion of collective bargaining in doubt
After California Governor Gray Davis threatened to veto AB 2160 (discussed in the accompanying editorial by Michael Podgursky) if it included a provision expanding collective bargaining to cover curriculum and textbook decisions, the bill was amended by a legislative committee yesterday to prohibit any expansion of collective bargaining, but substituting a new process by which teachers and dist