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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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by Eric Hanushekvia Hoover Education Success Initiative | The Papers
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Uncommon Knowledge with Hoover fellows Rick Hanushek and Paul Peterson
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interview with Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Petersonvia Uncommon Knowledge
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How Teachers Unions Use 'Common Core' to Undermine Reform
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Black-White Gap Widens Faster for High Achievers

with Eric Hanushek, Steven G. Rivkinvia Education Week
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

New research into what is commonly called the black-white “achievement gap” suggests that the students who lose the most ground academically in U.S. public schools may be the brightest African-American children...

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Our Overarching Disagreements

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Maybe I should not have thrown George Counts’ famous challenge into the mix...

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Placing test scores off limits hurts education

with Eric Hanushekvia Buffalo News
Monday, April 14, 2008

Aproposed amendment to the state budget would forbid public school systems from utilizing students’ standardized test scores as part of the decision to grant tenure to teachers...

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Lacking Credits, Some Students Learn a Shortcut

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Times
Friday, April 11, 2008

Dennis Bunyan showed up for his first-semester senior English class at Wadleigh Secondary School in Harlem so rarely that, as he put it, “I basically didn’t attend.”...

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New Center Applies Cost-Benefit Analysis to Education Policies

with Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Reducing the number of students in a classroom is a popular strategy for raising test scores, and it’s one that has some evidence of success...

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Favorite Education Blogs of 2008

with Diane Ravitchvia Washington Post
Monday, April 7, 2008

Early last year, as an experiment, I published a list of what I and commentator Walt Gardner considered our favorite education blogs...

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Writing Mastery Eludes Majority In Eighth Grade

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Sun
Friday, April 4, 2008

Three-quarters of eighth-graders in New York City's public schools cannot write proficiently, a problem demonstrated by more than two-thirds of students statewide, according to results from a federally administered test released yesterday...

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Homeschooling: A Growing Option in American Education

with Caroline M. Hoxbyvia Heritage Foundation
Thursday, April 3, 2008

A growing number of American families are choos­ing to homeschool their children...

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A Schools Veteran Girds for a Broader Battlefield

with Eric Hanushekvia New York Times
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Randi Weingarten has spent more than a decade cultivating a reputation as the archetypal union leader: a combative dealmaker and consummate political street fighter for city teachers...

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Dropout rate "catastrophe"

with Hoover Institutionvia Denver Post
Thursday, April 3, 2008

According to a new study by America's Promise Alliance, 17 of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent...

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