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Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates
The Graduation Project 2006Education Week/ Editorial Projects in EducationJune 22, 2006
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A National Dialogue: Commission Report: Draft
The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher EducationJune 22, 2006
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Charter schoolyard politics
New York has seen much mud-slinging and blame-shifting this week as the charter crowd seeks to explain why the legislature had the chutzpah to complete work on the state budget without raising the statewide charter-school cap from 100 to 150 schools, as urged by both Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki.
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Coleman crackles
When buying fireworks this weekend, don't forget to throw a box of birthday candles into your shopping basket. It's the 40th anniversary of the Coleman Report, which was released Fourth of July weekend 1966 to "deafening silence." Why the tepid initial response?
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More on Gore
Thank you for your thoughts on Al Gore's film and the lack of multimedia tools in education.
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Facing backward on his horse, Kozol rides again
Once upon a time, Jonathan Kozol played a formative and constructive role in my career.
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For school equality, try mobility
Dumb liberal ideas in education are a dime a dozen, and during my time as superintendent of Houston's schools and as the United States secretary of education I battled against all sorts of progressivist lunacy, from whole-language reading to fuzzy math to lifetime teacher tenure.
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High cut scores
While chattering education reformers bicker about standards, accountability, and how to spend Warren Buffet's billions, Japanologist Boyé Lafayette De Mente is busy attacking the achievement gap the old fashioned way: by cutting off its head with a Samurai sword.