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This but not That
Spellings definitely thinks we should have a national way of calculating the number of dropouts.
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Home Improvement, NCLB Edition
At Slate, the University of Virginia's Jim Ryan offers a brilliant plan to fix No Child Left Behind. Why so brilliant? Well, he agrees with us; his to-do list looks a lot like ours:
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Let's not talk about sex
The New York Times seems especially fascinated with smart kids who don't sleep with each other.
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Vicious cycle
The New York Times reports today on the admissions crunch at Ivy League schools. Due to record numbers of applicants, Harvard's acceptance rate this year is down to a new low of 7.1 percent, and other schools are setting their own records as well. Why?