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Faulty Towers: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education
Ryan C. Amacher and Roger E. Meiners, The Independent Institute2004
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Resolve and Resources to Get a Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom
Southern Regional Education Board2004
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K12 kerfuffle
Teachers' union types are in a snit over Department of Education funding for the Arkansas Virtual Academy (AVA), an online charter school that uses curricula from K12, a venture headed by former Secretary of Education William Bennett.
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Letting principals lead
School leaders in Philadelphia, like most everywhere, are currently so hamstrung by teacher contracts and union regulations that they have virtually no control over the hiring and firing of their own staff. In the City of Brotherly Love, however, help may be on the way.
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The mid-August massacre
Charter news isn't just the AFT report this week, though it doesn't get any better.
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Blaine strikes again
Citing the Sunshine State's controversial Blaine Amendment - which states that "no revenue . . .
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Virtual District, Real Improvement: A retrospective evaluation of the Chancellor's District, 1996-2003
Deinya Phenix, Dorothy Siegel, Ariel Zaltsman, and Norm Fruchter, Institute for Education and Social Policy, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University June 2004
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Becoming An Educated Person: Toward a Core Curriculum for College Students
George C. Leef, American Council of Trustees and AlumniMay 2004 The Hollow Core: Failure of the General Education Curriculum Barry Latzer, American Council of Trustees and AlumniMay 2004
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No August break in charter-land
This week's firestorm over the performance of charter schools can be traced to mischief by the charter-hating American Federation of Teachers and a (generally very able) New York Times reporter's susceptibility to being drawn into its web.For months, it appears, AFT analysts have been beavering away at their own analysis of new data from the Nat
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Not April Fool's
We couldn't make it up. Here's the Los Angeles Times on professional development courses that some California teachers are taking to renew their certification and earn higher salaries: "Sara Telona learned the choreography for Mexican folklore dances, mastered the words to folk songs and took a crash course in marimba and xylophone playing. . . .