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School Accountability—Past, Present, and Future
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by Chester E. Finn Jr.via Hoover Education Success Initiative | The Papers
The Unavoidable: Tomorrow's Teacher Compensation
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How Teachers Unions Use 'Common Core' to Undermine Reform
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Edison Schools Retools Itself as Online-Learning Provider

with John E. Chubbvia Education Week
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Edison Schools Inc., which has long attracted controversy in managing public schools, has changed its name to EdisonLearning and bought a California-based software company that will help it compete in the fast-growing online-learning market...

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Letters to the Editor: International Comparisons

by Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

In her Commentary "Quick Fixes, Test Scores, and the Global Economy" (June 11, 2008) , Iris C. Rotberg takes out after people who are concerned about the performance of U.S. students on international assessments...

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Schools Down Under

with Diane Ravitchvia City Journal
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Australia and the United States have much in common—language, political institutions, the influence of British settlement, and, more recently, fighting together on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan...

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Education Department Employs Squadron in Search for 'Truth'

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via New York Sun
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Education's press office have a new assignment: They are to scour a group of 24 education Web logs, e-mail Listservs, and Web sites in a hunt for factual errors and misinformation...

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S. Florida falls short of federal standards for students

with Michael J. Petrillivia Miami Herald
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Only about a third of schools in South Florida and a quarter statewide met federal government standards for student performance, the state Department of Education said Tuesday...

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Student Gains in Privately Managed Philadelphia Schools Nearly Double Those in District Schools

with Eric Hanushekvia PR Newswire
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

School test scores recently released by the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment reveal that schools partnering with private education management organizations (EMO's) -- including EdisonLearning -- showed greater gains in student achievement than the schools operated by the Philadelphia School District...

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Good study, bad spin

by Michael J. Petrilli with Diane Ravitch, Chester E. Finn Jr.via Flypaper (Fordham Education Blog)
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

That’s my take on the new Marcus Winters/Jay Greene/Julie Trivitt study on the impact of high-stakes testing on low-stakes subjects in Florida...

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The ghetto of gifted education

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via Vero Beach Press-Journal (FL)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

“Can we be excellent and equal too?”...

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Summerhill & I

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

You and I do travel in different circles!...

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An Anonymous Education Blogger Becomes Thorn in City's Side

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Sun
Monday, July 7, 2008

Told that her child could not enroll at the local public school, a concerned mother this spring sent a frantic e-mail message to a person she hoped could help...

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