Category: Standards
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Who Rules? The Fight Over The Federal Role in Education
The national drive for education reform has touched off many power struggles, but the fight over the federal role in education has emerged as fundamental.
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Raising Standards? Raising Dropout Rates?
President Obama wants to lower the dropout rate. He also wants to raise academic standards. But does one come at the expense of the other?
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The Testing Industry Under Common Core Standards
The new common core standards could be a boon to public school students. But will the standardized testing industry–and the states that employ it–create new tests to that support the standards?
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Educating Urban America
A reveiw of new books on school reform by journalists Jay Mathews, Paul Tough, and David Whitman
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Rewriting Accountability Under the No Child Left Behind Act
A reauthorized No Child Left Behind Act needs to measure school performance on the basis of student growth, not just student proficiency
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Why We Need National Standards and Tests
A take on Rep. George Miller’s ill-fated attempt to rewrite the No Child Left Behind Act in 2007