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Communities at Work: A Guidebook of Strategic Interventions for Community Change
Public Education Network, November 2001
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Parents and Schools: The 150-year Struggle for Control in American Education
William W. Cutler III, 2000
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Microsoft offers false hope to disadvantaged schools
Software giant Microsoft has proposed settling the myriad class-action lawsuits it faces by contributing a billion-plus dollars worth of software, computer equipment, technology training and cash to schools attended by low-income youngsters. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal featured an op-ed by Checker Finn explaining why the software giant's offer - if approved by the plaintiffs an
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Can troubled urban school districts be saved by new leadership (or by the introduction of competition)?
Anyone who thinks that the solution to the problems of big-city school districts is putting the mayor in charge may be disheartened by a trio of articles in the most recent issue of Education Next.
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Families, Freedom and Education: Why School Choice Makes Sense
Jennifer Buckingham, Centre for Independent Studies, 2001
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Graduation statistics: Caveat emptor
As the pundits keep reminding us, honesty is often a casualty of war.
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Tear Down This Wall: The Case for a Radical Overhaul of Teacher Certification
Frederick M. Hess, Progressive Policy Institute, November 2001
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Whole language reading instruction alive and kicking
While the "whole language" approach to teaching reading has been widely discredited, that didn't stop the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) from organizing a series of seminars called "A Day of Whole Language" during its annual convention in Baltimore last week.