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Advanced Education
The costs of action and inaction
Everyone and their mothers are talking about the so-called “fiscal cliff”—the automatic budget cuts and tax increases that will affect all federal discretionary spending programs, cut you off in traffic, steal an old lady’s handbag, and wreak general havoc if lawmakers don’t co
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Charter Schools
The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012
New Orleans sets the pace
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Curriculum & Instruction
Inequality for All: The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools
Another case for the Common Core
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Youth and Hard Work: Restoring Teen and Young Adult Connections to Opportunity
The multiple-pathways approach
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Curriculum & Instruction
Closing the reading gap with vocabulary and content
While there are achievement gaps between low-income and affluent students across content areas, none seem more vexing to close than the reading gap
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Charter Schools
In ranking choice, little differences add up to big change
The Brookings Institution's second Education Choice and Competition Index released yesterday