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On the trail
Checker goes in search of those elusive words, No Child Left Behind, and returns empty-handed.
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Double standards
Joanne Jacobs??takes aim at the disparities between charter and traditional public school performance standards. She writes,
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How's your number sense?
Did you routinely win the estimate-the-weight-of-a-pumpkin contests at the state fair? Always know how to sneak on an already too crowded train? You may be stupendous at math!
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She's smarter than a fifth grader (thank goodness)
My doubts were unfounded. Kathy Cox, the state superintendent of Georgia, is officially smarter than a fifth grader and is $1 million richer to prove it. The money will go to three special needs schools in her home state.
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Obama takes off the gloves
The Obama campaign has released a new advertisement??that hits John McCain on education:
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Obama talks education
Earlier, Barack Obama was talking about schools??in Dayton, Ohio. (He??did so in??Dayton because it's Fordham's hometown, no doubt.) AP and Campaign K-12 cover his speech.
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Re: Obama talks education
A post from guest blogger and Fordham writer and researcher??Emmy Partin.??
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Obama's proposals: crowd-pleasing distractions
Today's much ballyhooed Obama education speech (delivered near my hometown of Dayton) and accompanying "fact sheet" contained more than a few good ideas about where U.S. education should go in the years ahead. But as an exercise in specifying what would actually happen??to U.S.