Do What Works: How Proven Practices Can Improve America's Public Schools

Tom Luce and Lee Thompson, Ascent Education Press2005

No Child Left Behind Act: Education Needs to Provide Additional Technical Assistance and Conduct Implementation Studies for School Choice Provision

United States Government Accountability OfficeDecember 2004

Is the NEA changing its stripes?

Perhaps it's just a straw in the wind. Possibly it was even a mistake, a misstatement awaiting retraction. There's ample reason to describe NEA president Reg Weaver as a follower, not a leader, a perpetuator of the status quo rather than an innovator.

An Evaluation of Florida's Program to End Social Promotion

Jay Greene & Marcus Winters, The Manhattan InstituteDecember 2004

The Effects of Class Size on Attainment and Classroom Processes in English Primary Schools (Years 4 to 6) 2000-2003

Institute of Education, University of LondonDecember 2004

Grading the UK report cards

While No Child Left Behind requires states to issue school report cards, ostensibly to let parents know how their child's school is doing, we should observe our neighbors across the pond. "School league tables" were introduced a decade ago in Britain to offer an easy way to compare the academic achievement of different schools.

Guided discovery of routinized opinions

Gadfly does not try to note every expression of pedagogical silliness out there - otherwise, he'd do nothing else! But once in while you have to stop and smell the skunk cabbage. This week, Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and author of a book on learning styles, had a column in the New York Times so absurd as to be noteworthy. Dr.

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Progressive ed on the outs in Japan

Japan's ill-considered fling with progressive education could be coming to a close, though like every starred-crossed affair unfortunate consequences linger.