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2014 State Teacher Policy Yearbook
NCTQ's latest yearbook focuses heavily on the issue of teacher preparation
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Charter Schools
Late Bell: December 22, 2014
Welcome to a special Fordham-in-the-news edition of Late Bell.
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Curriculum & Instruction, Standards
Petrilli’s Christmas present
Just in time for Christmas, my Fordham colleague Mike Petrilli has left a present under the tree for inquisitive children and busy parents who don’t think the sky will fall if the kids get a little screen time now and again (it won’t).
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When should the courts intervene?
Editor's note: This post is the fifth entry of a multi-part series of interviews featuring Fordham's own Andy Smarick and Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at Holy Cross.
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Can Professional Environments in Schools Promote Teacher Development? Explaining Heterogeneity in Returns to Teaching Experience
The right environment may be as important as recruiting the right staff. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House
A vintage model fit for today. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
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On The Road to Better Accountability: An Analysis of State Charter School Policies
An imperfect analysis of a critically important issue. Jessica Poiner
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Standards, Accountability & Testing
What the Dickens! 2014 in Education Reform
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Michelle Lerner, Robert Pondiscio, and Alyssa Schwenk
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How Congress can address over-testing without overreaching
Senator Lamar Alexander, Representative John Kline, and their respective staffs have successfully freaked out sizable portions of the education-reform crowd—especially those who spend our days inside the Beltway bubble—by thr
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Stubborn people, bankrupt schools
Dear Santa,On behalf of a host of certified experts, policy wonks, busybodies and know-it-alls: All I would like for Christmas this year is your help in getting people to do what we know is best for them rather than what they want to do.
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Does money matter? Is school funding fair?
Editor's note: This post is the fourth entry of a multi-part series of interviews featuring Fordham's own Andy Smarick and Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at Holy Cross.
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Charter Schools
School discipline: Too important to leave to liberals
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Fixing NCLB
Editor's note: This post is the third entry of a multi-part series of interviews featuring Fordham's own Andy Smarick and Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at Holy Cross.
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Charter Schools
CREDO charter-quality report makes waves in Ohio
New report digs deep into student performance data.
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Charter Schools
Charters can do what's best for students who care
On today's Room for Debate series at the New York Times, p
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Homeostasis and the end of today's era of reform?
Reformers understandably fixate on our disputes du jour.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The NEA's racial profiling curriculum
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form on the Commentary website.
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Skills for Success: Supporting and Assessing Key Habits, Mindsets, and Skills in PreK-12
A call for transparent, widely available assessments. Kevin Mahnken
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How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?
Significantly, it turns out. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
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It pays to increase your word power
Education for upward mobility starts with building low-income students’ vocabulary. Robert Pondiscio
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Who needs the law when you have OCR?
On October 1, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued perhaps its most extraordinary “Dear Colleague” letter (DCL).
