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"Failing" or "Succeeding" Schools: How Can We Tell?
Paul E. BartonAmerican Federation of TeachersSeptember 2006
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How Well are American Students Learning: Volume II, Number 1
Tom LovelessBrown Center on Education PolicyThe Brookings InstitutionOctober 2006
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Measuring the melting pot
"It's a sordid business, this divvying us up by race," quoth Chief Justice John Roberts last year. The Department of Education is finally implementing a 1997 OMB mandate that students should be allowed to identify themselves as multiracial.
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Struggling schools in New Orleans are not charters
Last week, in "A dose of reality," Gadfly mistakenly wrote that a number of New Orleans charter schools were struggling. In fact, none of the fraught schools to which we referred were charters. Our mistake.
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Hit the deck!
The first rule of combat is to avoid cross-fire. But the newly appointed Los Angeles superintendent, retired Navy Vice Admiral David L. Brewer III, already finds himself squarely in the middle of it.
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High School Graduation in Texas: Independent Research to Understand and Combat the Graduation Crisis
Christopher B. SwansonEditorial Projects in Education Research CenterOctober 2006
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Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm Our Children
Edited by Eric A. HanushekHoover Institution's Koret Task Force on Education2006
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Absent minded
After five months of negotiations, the Buffalo Board of Education voted 5-4 last week to base 10 percent of students' report-card grades on attendance. Thus, kids with five or more unexcused absences will receive zeros, meaning the highest grade they can then receive in any subject is a 90.
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(Brain) power shortage
The twenty-third permutation of the MetLife teacher survey series, which annually compiles data on teacher attitudes across a range of topics, recently emerged and was mostly ignored.
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Typical
Regarding last week's News and Analysis ("An apple from the teachers," 10-12): Typically, you make it sound like it's an "either/or" situation.
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Wade's world
After gunning down two kittens on the property of the K-12 Indus school, just west of International Falls, Minnesota, Principal Wade Pilloud told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "I am not a cat hater." Maybe not, but he's certainly a common sense hater.