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Urban Schools

with John E. Chubb, Terry M. Moevia National Review Online
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

One of the things I like most about Matt Yglesias’s blog is that he likes to use data...

Analysis and Commentary

Hard to Take

by Liam Julianvia National Review Online
Monday, June 23, 2008

Hard Times at Douglass High, a documentary that airs tonight on HBO, is subtitled “A No Child Left Behind Report Card.”...

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The Sharpton-Klein Education Reform Agenda

by Diane Ravitchvia Core Knowledge (Blog)
Monday, June 23, 2008

I have been a supporter of Core Knowledge from its beginning...

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Mayor Sees a Test Scores Triumph

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Sun
Monday, June 23, 2008

Mayor Bloomberg will announce an education victory today: Test scores are up across the city, by double digits at some schools...

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Does 8th-Grade Pomp Fit the Circumstance?

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Times
Sunday, June 22, 2008

IT is good to be 14 and graduating from eighth grade...

Analysis and Commentary

Is the United States becoming a socialist country?

by Tibor R. Machanvia Freedom Communications
Saturday, June 21, 2008

It is becoming increasingly likely that the United States, which supposedly won the Cold War against the socialist Soviet Union, will soon become a socialist society...

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Exclusive: Higher Education and ‘The Vacuity of Hope’

with Victor Davis Hansonvia Family Security Matters
Friday, June 20, 2008

Hope - when grounded in reality - is a fine quality...

Analysis and Commentary

No Child Gets Ahead

by Chester E. Finn Jr., Michael J. Petrillivia National Review Online
Thursday, June 19, 2008

In his seminal 1961 book, Excellence, John W. Gardner posed the question, “can we be equal and excellent too?”...

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Showing What They Know

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Week
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

When it came time for Rachel Patterson to show what she’d learned during her eight-month senior project on sign language, the Barrington High School student didn’t just turn in a research paper...

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Bell Curve Author to Question College Goal in New Book

with Chester E. Finn Jr.via Education Week
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Charles Murray is about to publish a book about education—and he promises that educators won’t like it...

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