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Shooting for the Sun: The Message of Middle School Reform (Selected Remarks of M. Hayes Mizell)
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation2002
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Developments in School Finance 1999-2000
William J. Fowler Jr., ed., National Center for Education StatisticsJuly 2002
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New wrinkles in the game of college admissions
Getting the incentives right in the high-stakes game of college admissions is always a challenge, but two recent changes-one in the SAT's disability policy, the other in the admissions system of the University of California-are raising eyebrows.
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Helping failing schools is easier said than done
State accountability systems are shining a harsh spotlight on failing schools, and education officials in several states are striving to help those schools turn around.
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Higher Pay for Hard-to-Staff Schools: The Case for Financial Incentives
This fifty-page paper by Cynthia Prince, issues director at the American Association of School Administrators, contends that "offering financial incentives to teachers willing to take on more challenging assignments is essential if we are to staff every school with highly qualified teachers....Changing the way that teachers are paid is critical if we are to attract and hold teachers in the scho
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Edison test score results are in the eye of the beholder
Supporters and opponents of Edison Schools frequently butt heads over whether Edison-run schools are performing better than similar schools in the same districts.
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An open letter to the president of Harvard
Readers with a stomach for more commentary from the Gadfly's Checker Finn may want to peruse "An Open Letter to Lawrence H. Summers," which reflects upon Summers' first year as president of Harvard.
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Zelman: The Triumph of Pluribus over Unum?
It is generally agreed that the Supreme Court's decision in the Zelman case issued on June 27 approving the constitutionality of vouchers that would enable parents to receive tax funds to pay tuition to send their children to religious schools as well as to other private and public schools is a landmark change in American constitutional and educational history.
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The shame of the AFT
Yesterday brought the official release of a much-hyped and professionally leaked "study" of U.S. charter schools by the American Federation of Teachers, timed to coincide with the union's convention in Las Vegas. In a word, it reeks.It reeks of error, distortion and untruth about charter schools, how they're working, what effects they're having, what we know about them.
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Vouchers promote integration, not segregation
In an op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal, Jay Greene warns voucher supporters that the teachers unions, the Harvard Civil Rights Project and others, are already sharpening their knives to attack vouchers on a different constitutional front-the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause-by arguing that vouchers increase segregation.