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John McCain ??? Teachers
At his high school alma matter yesterday, John McCain made his first major education speech (not just the first in this campaign???the first in his life, as far as I can tell).
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Report: British kids in 2008 are even more whiny than in 2007
Some 300,000 students in the U.K. have asked that their national examination scores be given "special consideration," i.e. additional points, because, for example, they had a fever on test day. The number of successful appeals has risen by 9 percent since last year.
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More on paying kids in NYC
Regarding Coby's earlier post: A much-overlooked aspect of the "cash for grades" idea is that it might???and,
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Yet another post on something from the New York Times
In a recent Bloggingheads.tv video, Glenn Loury of Brown University and Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute discuss Mayor Bloomberg's "cash for grades" program.