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Tough Choices for Tough Times: Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
National Center on Education and the Economy2006
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Miss fortune
Too bad Jimmy Carter is busy deflecting charges that he's anti-Israel and a plagiarizer--his prowess as an election observer was recently needed in Roseville, Minnesota. By most accounts, Jasmine White should be student council president of Central Park Elementary in said town.
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Compulsory education
Spokane business teacher Scott Carlson doesn't think the Washington Education Association (WEA), of which he is not a member, should be able to raid his paycheck to fund its political causes without his permission. Oddly, the Washington state Supreme Court disagrees.
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Charter High Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap
Innovations in Education SeriesU.S. Department of EducationOctober 2006
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Homophily-phobia
"Homophily." The word means "love of the same," and it recently landed in the New York Times Magazine's 6th Annual Year in Ideas, listed directly after "Hidden-Fee Economy, The" and directly before "Human-Chimp Hybrids."
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Influence: A Study of the Factors Influencing Education Policy
Christopher B. Swanson and Janelle BarlageEditorial Projects in Education Research CenterDecember 2006
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Where's the teach?
Last week, Gadfly noted Philadelphia Mayor John Street's bold strategy of threatening parents of truant students with jail time. Forget the students--what about the teachers?