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Year in Review 2010: California Set the Trends in Education

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California has brought you pop culture mainstays like Lauren Conrad, gangster rap, and the Black Eyed Peas. When it comes to education, what happens in California is just as influential, and it's probably coming to a school near you. Not only does California crush the competition with the sheer immensity of its education system—almost 10,000 schools, 293,000 teachers, and over 6 million K-12 students—some of the most innovative and downright controversial education reform happenings go down first in the Golden State. Here are four of the biggest from 2010 that we predict will impact your local education system in 2011.

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