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In the News

The Blackboard Bungle

with Diane Ravitchvia Wall Street Journal
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Principal Tina McKnight and third-grade teacher Alia Johnson at Tyler Elementary, in Annapolis, Md., made a strenuous effort to bring their public-school students up to state and national standards in reading and math, according to Linda Perlstein in "Tested" (Holt, 302 pages, $25)...

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Lost and Conservative? Opportunities Abound at Stanford

with Hoover Institution, John Raisianvia Stanford Review
Friday, September 28, 2007

In 2004, novelist Tom Wolfe penned the novel I am Charlotte Simmons, lambasting the binge drinking, sexually promiscuous, image-oriented culture of the typical American college campus...

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NAEP Gains: Experts Mull Significance

with Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Friday, September 28, 2007

For some, the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress released this week show that the sustained local, state, and federal efforts to improve instruction in reading and mathematics are paying off...

Analysis and Commentary

New York State Test Scores: Who to Believe?

by Diane Ravitchvia City Journal
Friday, September 28, 2007

The release of national test scores in reading and math on September 25 was an embarrassment for the New York State Education Department...

Analysis and Commentary

Between a Little Rock and a Hard Place

by Liam Julianvia National Review Online
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The most distinctive thing about Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later, a documentary that debuted Tuesday night on HBO, is that it actually adds something valuable to the discussion about race and education...

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N.Y.C. Wins Award for Strides in Student Achievement

with Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The third time proved the charm for the New York City school system, which last week won the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education for the progress of its improvement efforts after being a finalist the past two years...

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Students need the basics, not feel-good curriculum

with Victor Davis Hansonvia Highline Times (WA)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The old approach to education ... of the type my farming grandfather got was the reason why the United States grew wealthy, free, and stable...

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Why We Need National Testing

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

You make some good points about the distinction between norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests, but I disagree with your characterization of the latter...

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It's time for Michigan to close failing schools

with Hoover Institutionvia Detroit News
Monday, September 24, 2007

Michigan's long-term economic recovery depends on its ability to revolutionize its schools and rapidly build a globally competitive talent pool...

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Such a Strange Place, Academia

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Corner (National Review Online)
Thursday, September 20, 2007

It is likely (a) that Ahmadinejad was one of the terrorists who took American hostages in 1979, and so helped to start the quarter-century rise of radical Islamic jihadism that blew up on September 11; and (b) that he wants to visit September 11 precisely for the purpose of boasting when back home “I am going there, because I can,” the subtext, if not the overt message, cynically to commemorate what we deserved...

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