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Report
1.9.2013
Accountability & Testing, Advanced Education

Needles in a Haystack

Peter Meyer

Profiles of six public high schools that serve poor and minority students to high levels of excellence.

Commentary
12.12.2012
Advanced Education

The costs of action and inaction

The Education Gadfly

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

Commentary
10.9.2012
Advanced Education

Young, gifted, and neglected

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

We need to raise the ceiling for Ohio's highest-performing students

Commentary
12.21.2011
Advanced Education

Unsolved problems—and signs of hope—as 2012 dawns

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

The central problem besetting K-12 education in the United States today is still—as for almost thirty years now—that far too few of our kids are learning nearly enough for their own or the nation’s good. And the gains we’ve made, though well worth making, have been meager (and largely confined to math), are trumped by gains in other countries, and evaporate by the end of high school.