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More on Mexico
Calexico (a U.S. border town) is kicking out of its schools Mexican students, who bring down test scores.
Boy, oh boy
Over at NRO, two writers, Carrie Lukas and Kathleen Parker, are displeased about the recent American Association of University Women report that finds education's so-called "boys crisis" to be fiction.
Red scare
Michael J. PetrilliNo, I'm not referring to my supposed McCarthyite tendencies, but this: "Girl barred from school over red highlights." (More
Paul Peterson gives props to Jeff Kuhner!
Michael J. PetrilliWait, it's not this Paul Peterson, it's this Paul Peterson.
Because schools don't have any real teaching to do
Michael J. PetrilliThe other day it was solving the childhood obesity epidemic; today it's improving the state of family life: "
The death of school reform is greatly exaggerated
Michael J. PetrilliFormer presidential aspirant Fred Thompson has a piece on conservatism in the Wall Street Journal today that's
Whoa there
Mike makes good points about Thompson's article. But modesty about the lengths to which the KIPP/Amistad/SEED models can be stretched is warranted.
Dress for success
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.So, after posting this, Mike drops me an email asking if I've got his back... I, of course, ask if he is insinuating that my blond highlights are not completely au naturelle.??