Transforming Public Schools: The Houston Annenberg Challenge Research and Evaluation Study, Year Two Summary Report
Pedro Reyes and Joy C. Phillips, University of Texas at AustinAugust 2001
Pedro Reyes and Joy C. Phillips, University of Texas at AustinAugust 2001
James Catterall and Richard Chapleau, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityDecember 2001
Jay P. Greene, Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan InstituteJanuary 2002
Neal McCluskey, Center for Education ReformJanuary 2002
Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityDecember 2001
As they flew back to Washington earlier this month after celebrating their joint education bill, the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush and Senator Edward M. Kennedy held an extended conversation about the need to boost early childhood education, and that conversation may soon lead to legislation, according to reporter Anne Kornblut of The Boston Globe.
In an earlier report and Gadfly editorial-available at http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=75#1062-the Manhattan Institute's Jay Greene explained that official high school graduation rates published by the federal government understate the problem of dropouts because they treat the General Education Developm
Important education insights sometimes arise from developments in other fields. This happened to me twice in recent weeks. Both episodes bear on results-based accountability, how it works, what can go awry-and what's wrong with the usual substitutes.First, a new study of hospital accreditation looked into whether it makes any difference for the quality of patient care.