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More trouble
The latest issue of Commentary contains a review of Checker's newest book, Troublemaker. It's available here for subscribers.
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Ed reform, finished
With the release of every new education report, it seems, we hear from commentators that the findings are promising but certainly do not constitute a "silver bullet" or a "panacea" for k-12's problems. No longer.
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Everyone's special, round 2
My recent post on special education (SPED) had one education scholar emailing me to
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A ray of hope
Amid all the news of doom and gloom, here's one reason for optimism: America's best spellers appear to be getting better and better.
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Those silly Canadians
Baffled by America's arcane process for electing a president, the Edmonton Sun's Edward Greenspan has this to say:
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The GOP's education problem
Republicans should be thankful that, according to Rasmussen,* education ranks only sixth out of ten issues for American voters right now, because Congressional Democrats are opening up a big
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More science, please
Brian Greene, a Columbia professor who wrote two top-selling popularizations of
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Standardized Testing: The Musical
It seems that students at top colleges can't soon shed the feelings of anxiety that accompanied their hypercompetitive high-school careers.