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Principals Choose Status Quo

with Diane Ravitchvia New York Sun
Friday, May 18, 2007

Faced with three reform options meant to transform the way schools will be run next year, school principals this week overwhelmingly chose the most familiar of the three, the Department of Education announced yesterday...

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School Choice

with Education Nextvia Education Week
Friday, May 18, 2007

Schools of choice often do a better job of boosting civic values among their students than assigned public schools, according to a study published in the Summer 2007 issue of Education Next...

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Spellings to Expand Pilot Test Reversing Order of NCLB Sanctions

with Eric Hanushekvia Education Week
Friday, May 18, 2007

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has announced plans to expand a pilot initiative under which school districts may reverse the order of key consequences for schools’ low performance under the No Child Left Behind Act...

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Bush condemns schools without ROTC programs

with William J. Perryvia Stanford Daily
Friday, May 18, 2007

Only two Stanford seniors, including Diana Clough ‘07, will be commissioned into the Army through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) this year...

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US students aren't history whizzes, but they're improving

with Diane Ravitchvia Christian Science Monitor
Thursday, May 17, 2007

The latest report card for America's students bears good news: kids are making gradual progress, especially in younger grades...

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Armed With Knowledge

with Thomas Sowellvia American Spectator
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

As the shock from the massacre at Virginia Tech wears off, it appears the political fallout will be minimal...

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A Kinder, Gentler Schwarzenegger?

with Hoover Institutionvia Education Week
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Is a bipartisan wind blowing in the debate over California’s “broken” school finance and governance systems?

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Those Who Cannot Remember the Past

with Victor Davis Hansonvia townhall.com
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

If you went to college in the sixties, like I did, you might not know how much higher education has changed since then...

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Four projects awarded grants from presidential fund for humanities

with Barry R. Weingastvia Stanford Report
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities has announced its first round of grants. Four projects have been funded, representing new modes of research and scholarship in the humanities at Stanford..

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Education Next: New Study Shows Schools of Choice Are Better at Boosting Civic Values Among Students

with Education Nextvia Business Wire
Monday, May 14, 2007

Schools of choice, both private and public, often do a better job of boosting civic values among their students than assigned public schools, according to a new study in the forthcoming issue of Education Next (summer 2007)...

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