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The myth of Barcroft Elementary
Over the weekend, the Washington Post Magazine ran a provocative piece by Jay Mathews about an excellent elementary school in Northern Virginia that has failed to make "adequate yearly progress"
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Let them eat gruel?
Schools are turning to unhealthier cafeteria-food options because of rising food prices, reports the Washington Post. Washington, D.C., Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee seems to have the right idea: allow private contractors to supply lunches.
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Time for Liam to eat some humble pie
Just last week, Liam expressed skepticism about a scrupulous research study that found that serving kids healthier food and drink led to fewer of them getting fat:
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Is it low-fat humble pie?
Mike wants me to eat humble pie. I'd like??to, but his arguments haven't convinced me. He writes: In a field where few research studies ever make any conclusions with real-world value, this particular study deserves praise, not pique.
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"Christian kids are doing it. Jewish kids are doing it."
I thought this stuff only happened in American Pie movies.
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Dyscalculia
I had??never heard of it.??But I predict a pandemic as soon as it makes the New York Times style section.
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No happy talk in the hinterlands
As a national education player, the American Federation of Teachers has been careful not to bash No Child Left Behind too overtly. It even calls its NCLB site "Let's Get It Right" (not, say, "Throw NCLB Under the Bus").
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Help wanted
The logistical problems with the "Academic Freedom Act," which is traipsing merrily through the Florida legislature, are legion. The pope's U.S.
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Mao was 30 percent wrong
In Sunday's New York Times, Matthew Forney, a former Beijing bureau chief for Time, seeks to correct what he thinks may be a popularly-held hunch that China's growing class of educated urbanites will soon pressure the Chinese government to reform.