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Year in Review 2010: 12 Stories That Rocked The Education Reform World
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American Student Performance Slips Again; China Is Number One
American students now rank average or below average when compared to kids in other countries—14th in reading, 17th in science, and 25th in math.
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Reading Scores Rising, Along With Achievement Gap
White and Asian students make minimal improvement, while minority students aren't improving.
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New Report Puts the Black Male Achievement Crisis in the Spotlight
The latest study on urban black male academic achievement is out, and the data is pretty grim.
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Results at Arne Duncan's First Chicago Turnaround School Raise Efficacy and Legal Questions
Arne Duncan believes in "turnaround" schools, but are they effective, and are they legal?
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Education: Morning Roundup, Arne Duncan Will Stump for Democrats
Morning Roundup: From The Christian Science Monitor: Education Secretary Arne Duncan will campaign for Democrats While Education Secretary...
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Should New Promise Neighborhoods Include Charter Schools?
Winners of grants for 21 new "Promise Neighborhoods" based on the Harlem Children's Zone were announced today. Will they need charter schools to work?
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This Week Hosts Education Roundtable
Three important characters in the education reform conversation met yesterday on This Week with Christiane Amanpour: Education Secretary Arne...
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Race to the Top Winners Reveal Strong East Coast Bent
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced that nine states, as well as the District of Columbia, would divvy up nearly $3.4 billion as winners...
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Arne Duncan Names Race to the Top Second Round Finalists
In a speech at the National Press Club this afternoon, Arne Duncan revealed the 19 finalists for the second round of funding in the Obama...
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Arne Duncan Wants More Black Teachers
The latest crusade by the outspoken and very busy Education Secretary Arne Duncan is getting more African-American teachers into the classroom....
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Thomas Jefferson Sneaks Back into Texas Textbooks
No surprise here: The Texas State Board of Education voted to approve changes to the state's social studies curriculum by a margin of 9 to 5 down...
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Is the Obama Administration Pushing Teaching to the Test?
The U.S. Department of Education today announced yet another competition-based federal funding program today. This time, it's looking to...
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Finalists Announced in Obama's High School Commencement Challenge
Voting begins today to help choose the winner of President Obama's Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. Six schools were selected...
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The ABCs of Struggling Schools
Why literacy is at the heart of the problems that plague our lowest-performing public schools. Imagine if you went to your doctor's office with a...
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A Nice Gig If You Can Get It
Slate recently asked why college students get such extended winter vacations. Answer: Academic calendars were first synced with agricultural...
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What Arne Can Learn from Peter
So this hasn't exactly been the best week ever for Arne Duncan. Yesterday, Ezra Klein, David Boaz and Matthew Ygleias all excerpted the same...
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Did Obama's Education Secretary Inflate his Record?
Behold the flip side of the standardized testing quagmire, where education secretaries (as opposed to teachers and students) are taken to task for...
