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Education news nuggets
While concealed guns and chocolate milk continue to be big issues in education,
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Work hard, be nice: Reinvigorating school
David Brooks had a sobering column in yesterday's Times, warning that America is going soft.? Or, as he puts it, ?the country is becoming less vital and industrious?. One-fifth of all men in their prime working ages are not getting up and going to work.?
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Critics of Fordham's superintendents survey missed their mark
In March, Fordham's Ohio team released a report based on a survey of Ohio school district superintendents and other local education leaders.
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Quotable & notable
?What's worse: supporting public funding for private schools, or allowing poor children to stay in chronically failing schools? The research is clear -- a couple of years in a row in an ineffective classroom can change a child's entire life trajectory.
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Finn on prospect of teacher layoffs in NYC
Fordham Institute President Chester Finn, has an interesting op-ed in the NY Daily News today.