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In the News

Major Study of City Schools Shows Charters in Lead

with Caroline M. Hoxbyvia New York Sun
Thursday, July 26, 2007

A new study by a Harvard economist that shows New York City charter schools pushing ahead of traditional public schools on standardized tests could have educators across the country looking to the city for lessons...

In the News

School Choice and Racial Balance

with Paul E. Petersonvia National Center for Policy Analysis
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Opponents of school choice claim white parents apply to good schools at a higher rate than minority parents, leaving larger concentrations of white students at some schools, and minorities packed into schools elsewhere...

In the News

Better Than Expected, Worse Than It Seems

with Eric Hanushekvia Inside Higher Education
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

There was a national sigh of relief on campuses in June when an altered U.S. Supreme Court left standing the historic 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger decision supporting affirmation action in admissions...

Analysis and Commentary

There They Go Again

by Liam Julianvia National Review Online
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled against the Louisville and Seattle school districts, race-based student assignment policies are mostly illegal...

Analysis and Commentary

School Choice and Racial Balance

by Paul E. Petersonvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Schools that admit students on the basis of race run afoul of the Constitution, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the recent Supreme Court case, Parents v. Seattle...

In the News

The small-school hype

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Monday, July 16, 2007

I like small schools, but I also like middle-size schools...

Analysis and Commentary

Vouchers Could Desegregate Schools Better Than Buses

by Herbert J. Walbergvia Heartland Institute
Monday, July 16, 2007

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down two public-school integration programs--one in Louisville, the other in Seattle--on the basis that they discriminate according to race...

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Read It and Weep

with Diane Ravitchvia Weekly Standard
Monday, July 16, 2007

In a classroom at Ginter Park Elementary School, a century-old brick schoolhouse on a dreary, zoned-commercial truck route that bisects a largely African-American neighborhood in Richmond, a third-grade teacher, Laverne Johnson, is doing something that flies in the face of more than three decades of the most advanced pedagogical principles taught at America's top-rated education schools...

In the News

Less hype and more honest data

with Milton Friedmanvia Education Week
Friday, July 13, 2007

We better be careful, or we'll too often think alike!

In the News

Letter: Is Test Preparation Getting a Bad Rap?

with Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Thursday, July 12, 2007

In their May 24, 2006, Commentary "Bridging Differences," Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch joined other distinguished educators in concluding that we should devote fewer classroom hours to test preparation...

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