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In the News

Schools Win Kudos

with Diane Ravitchvia Gotham Gazette
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The News, Post and Sun all offer their hearty congratulations to the New York City schools for winning the Broad Prize for being the nation’s most improved urban school district...

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Middle East and Midwest

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

What are we to make of these reoccurring stories of various weapons of mass destruction incidents in Syria, whether the accident in July of Iranians and Syrians arming Scud missiles with mustard (or sarin?) gas, or recent Syrian nuclear depositories being bombed by Israelis...

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The Proper Goal of Schooling

by Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Monday, September 17, 2007

I don’t think you should worry at all about annoying those “with more power” than you...

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Fuzzy Reading

with Hoover Institutionvia National Review Online
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Last year, New York City parents objected to reading books put in their local school’s sixth-grade classroom library...

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Hillsdale’s Comeback

with Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Monday, September 10, 2007

When Larry Arnn arrived on the campus of Hillsdale College seven years ago as its new president, the school was reeling from scandal and its future was uncertain...

In the News

Lacking a major diversity in ideas

with Milton Friedmanvia Collegiate Times (VTech)
Monday, September 10, 2007

In the months after April 16, campuses across the country began scrambling to create programs that encourage diversity and ensure that students have an effective way to report discrimination...

In the News

Ravitch Lambasts City's Education System

with Diane Ravitchvia Gotham Gazette
Friday, September 7, 2007

Education historian Diane Ravitch was a guest on Brian Lehrer’s show on WNYC this week, where she calls the Education Department’s initiative to empower principals another part of the “overall scheme to dismantle the public education system” by “sitting each of the schools on their own bottom..."

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Mideast-Themed Schools Raise Curricular, Church-State Issues

with Diane Ravitchvia Education Week
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

A new public school with a focus on Arabic language and culture is set to open in New York City this week, after being assailed for months by opponents who claim it will be a taxpayer-funded Islamic school sympathetic to extremist political views...

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Experts: English and math test results should be verified

with Diane Ravitchvia Daily News
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Education watchdogs called for an independent audit of standardized state exams yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Spitzer acknowledged the tests are not always consistent from year to year...

Analysis and Commentary

Our Compassless Colleges

by Peter Berkowitzvia Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

At universities and colleges throughout the land, undergraduates and their parents pay large sums of money for -- and federal and state governments contribute sizeable tax exemptions to support -- "liberal" education...

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