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Hot off the press
The newest issue of Education Next is now on newsstands--or on the internet, at least. Check out Mike's piece, which is a unique look at how the editorial boards of major newspapers present charter schools and No Child Left Behind.
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Social promotion exposed
Standards and accountability hawks (Fordham??swirls among them) have never adequately explained how top-down accountability systems avoid situations such as this. After an exhaustive investigation of Tucson's schools, the Arizona Daily Star reports:
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Memo to the AERA: Breaking up with Bill Ayers isn't hard to do
Anyone who's been following politics lately knows that Senator Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant bomber and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers has become a matter of debate in the 2008 campaign.
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In defense of education
You might not agree with this column's political bent, but Stanley Crouch is right to blast away at anti-intellectualism in American life:
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Soft bigotry further hardens
We know that the best schools "sweat the small stuff"; they do not overlook untucked shirts, they do not permit poor posture, they do not deign to??hold different students??to different standards of discipline.
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Sagging state standards
Rick Hess and Paul Peterson's annual look at state proficiency standards is out in the latest issu
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Put down the Xbox and pick up a ball
I was especially disappointed Saturday morning when my two-year-old daughter's "sports class" was canceled because I had just read in T