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The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long-Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes
Eric Hanushek and Ludger WoessmannOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentJanuary 2010
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Teacher Man andLa fabrique du cr??tin: La mort programm??e de l'??cole
Frank McCourt; Scribner; 2005 and Jean-Paul Brighelli; Jean-Claude Gawsewitch ??diteur; 2005 (Available only in French, through Amazon)
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The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas
Frederick M. Hess, The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).
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State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act Volume IX: Accountability Under NCLB: Final Report
James Taylor, Brian Stecher, Jennifer O'Day, Scott Naftel, Kerstin Carlson le FlochRAND and American Institutes for ResearchU.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy DevelopmentJanuary 2010
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Expressing International Educational Achievement in Terms of U.S. Performance Standards: Linking NAEP Achievement Levels to TIMSS
Gary W. Phillips American Institutes for ResearchApril 24, 2007
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Bringing School Reform to Scale: Five Award-Winning Urban Districts
Heather ZavadskyHarvard Education Press2009
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Beehive state abuzz with secession talk
Withdrawing from NCLB was only the beginning for the Utah legislature, which voted unanimously this week to stand by its principles and formally withdraw from the Union. Utah House Speaker Greg Curtis, now to be known as Supreme Prophet, remarked in a press release that "We just really don't feel it is in our best interest to continue our partnership with the other 49 states.
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Being honest about how tough ed reform is
I know I’m the last one to the party on this one but I just got around to seeing Waiting for Superman this weekend.
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Better
This week, Mike and Rick talk about NAEP, mayoral chartering, and lifetime health care. Fordham's own Eric Osberg tells us why teacher salaries are important, and Education News of the Weird is Last Tango in Paris? The Exorcist? Click here to listen through our website and view past editions.
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Better ingredients. Better schools.
When Domino’s Pizza President Patrick “Hat Trick” Boyle picked up the phone early on March 13, he was initially puzzled to find a school superintendent on the other end. “I thought it was a prank call,” Boyle recalls.
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Beyond the Basics: Register now!
On December 12, Fordham is hosting a probing symposium to examine curriculum narrowing in the NCLB era and what we can do about it. You won't want to miss this downtown-Washington event (or the very nice reception to follow). Find out more here.
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Big charter job in the Big Apple
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, a group that stimulates growth in high-quality charter schools, seeks a chief operations officer who, among other responsibilities, must ensure that all new school planning teams are prepared to open academically rigorous schools on time and on budget.
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Bigger, Bolder, Fatter
This week, Andy and Mike take on the draft K-12 Common Core standards, lament the school-based fight against childhood obesity, and wonder how many FOIA requests is too many. Then Amber tells us about the new Brown Center report’s findings on school turnarounds and Rate that Reform, guest-featuring Research Assistant Janie, wants to send adolescent boys to Siberia.
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Bill Ayers is a terrorist
This week, Mike and Rick chat about why we shouldn't expect black kids to misbehave or all kids to attend college, and note that Marion Barry makes a good point about school choice. Jeff Kuhner is upset about goings-on Down Under, and Education News of the Weird is 20/20.
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BLAT
This week, Mike and Rick discuss meddling in California, extending school days in Boston, and drinking like a pirate. National Alliance for Public Charter School's COO Andy Smarick stops by to chat (and sing), and Education News of the Weird is magical and enchanting.
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Bodegas and rutabagas
This week, Mike and Rick brainstorm Whitehurst replacements, how to count special ed students' test scores, and possible thought processes behind Randi Weingarten's preposterous federal suit. Then Amber tells us about Florida's Hispanic 4th graders' incredible test scores and Rate that Reform questions death threats as a viable disciplinary method.
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Book party
On Wednesday, September 3rd, from 4 to 5 p.m., the Fordham Institute will be hosting in our event space a soiree to celebrate David Whitman's fresh and exciting book, Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism.
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Book party at our new digs
Join us Wednesday, February 6th, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. as we host a Fordham open house (our D.C. office has moved to 1016 16th St.
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Bridging new differences
Andy and Mike discuss the resolution of Central Falls’ saga, if too many students are going to college, and whether it’s more likely that the Tooth Fairy will eat dinner at Mike’s house or Arne Duncan will return unused Race to the Top dollars to the Treasury.
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Broad Center seeks nominations/applicants for 2004 Urban Superintendents Academy
The Urban Superintendents Academy is a 10-month executive management course sponsored by the Broad Foundation and designed to prepare leaders from outside and inside the education sector to become successful urban superintendents. Application deadlines are September 15 and October 15, 2003.
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Broad Foundation seeks director of communications
The Broad Foundation is seeking a director of communications, who will be responsible for developing and executing the overarching communications strategy for the Broad Foundations.
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Broad Foundation seeks policy director
The Los Angeles-based Broad Foundation is looking to hire a Director of Policy Programs. The directorship is a new position created to influence changes in national, state and local education policies and contribute greater understanding and awareness of the Foundation's programs through advocacy.
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Broad needs staff
The Broad Foundation has three new openings (one senior, two for the summer) that it needs to fill; all are located in sunny Los Angeles. Find information here.
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Broken toilets, urban scapes
This week, Mike and guest host Kate Walsh chat about Los Angeles, Chicago, and the State of the Union's effect on NCLB reauthorization. Coby offers a two-minute review of Two Million Minutes, and Education News of the Weird is dark and hot and steamy, but in a bad way.
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Brookings jumps at the opportunity
The Center on Children and Families will host a fascinating event on October 27 entitled, “Is America Really an Opportunity Society?” Brookings Fellows Ron Haskins and Isabella Sawhill will discuss their new book Creating an Opportunity Society, and the three routes to upward mobility: education, work, and strong families.
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Buckeye State sell out
The dust has finally settled on a long and contentious legislative battle over education reform in Ohio.
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Budget blues and b.s.
Much caterwauling has accompanied the president's new budget. Senator Kennedy thundered that the proposal, which reduces Department of Education funding about 1 percent, to $56 billion, is "the most anti-student, anti-education budget since the Republicans tried to abolish the Department of Education." Suffice to say he is exaggerating.
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Budget cuts aren't all bad?
Join us Thursday, April 9 from 1:30-3:00 PM for "Can Budget Cuts Catalyze Education Reform?" Marguerite Roza of the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education will join us to present her work (see here and