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Hopes, Fears and Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2009
This fifth edition of the annual National Charter Research Project series wants to know if charter schools will go mainstream.
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2009-2010 DQC Annual Survey Results
Since 2005, the Data Quality Campaign has been encouraging states to beef up (or in some cases, create from scratch) their longitudinal data systems to conform with a list of ten “Essential Elements.” These include, for example, a statewide student identifier that tracks kids, a statewide teacher identifier that trac
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Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement
The title of this paper says it all--when female elementary school teachers are anxious about mathematics, their female students pay the academic price. The study looked at seventeen first- and second-grade female-led classrooms at the beginning and the end of the school year.
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Finding excellence in Canton, Ohio
Yesterday morning I visited McGregor Elementary, a school in Canton, Ohio serving students in preschool through sixth-grade, and doing it very well. The building sits practically across the street from the sprawling Timk
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Charter Schools
Curious omissions: charter schools left out of Ohio's Race to the Top application
Ohio has the sixth-highest charter school enrollment in the nation ???????? about 90,000 children attend a Buckeye State public charter school.????