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Math standards don't add up
Two decades after the U.S. was deemed "a nation at risk," academic standards for our primary and secondary schools are more important than ever - and their quality matters enormously.
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Merit pay in CA?
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his State of the State address, has declared his intention to promote merit-based pay for Golden State teachers.
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Aristocracy rising
Income inequality in the U.S., the Economist warns, "is growing to levels not seen since the Gilded Age, around the 1880s.
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Road maps of charterland
You may be confused by the dueling charter school studies that have appeared in recent months. If so, two new articles try to beam a light through that tangled forest.
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Twentysomething and still a kid?
Are today's twentysomethings spoiled, coddled brats who sponge off their parents and wander aimlessly through an entertainment-addled existence? Or do they face unusual challenges that make it difficult to follow the time-honored high school-college-adulthood script? Both assertions were on view this week.
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Dovrat back to the drawing board
The recommendations of a national panel looking at fixes to the ailing Israeli K-12 education system has the entire country up in arms.
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Stalled in Secondary: A Look at Student Achievement Since the No Child Left Behind Act
The Education TrustJanuary 2005
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Revisiting Statewide Educational Accountability under NCLB
Ellen Forte Fast and William J. Erpenbach, Council of Chief State School Officers2004