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Arts Funding Down in New York City Schools
Between the years of 2006 and 2009, spending on the arts and music in New York City public schools went in the opposite direction of overall...
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Snapshot of a Downsizing School System
The number of students in the Kansas City, Missouri, school system today is 17,000—that's 80 percent fewer than attended the city's public...
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Segregation Still a Problem in New Orleans's Revamped School System
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans seized an opportunity to redesign its public school system, shepherding in a wave of...
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60 Minutes' Hopeful Profile of D.C.'s SEED School
Last night, 60 Minutes profiled the first "urban, public boarding school" in the country: the SEED School of Washington, D.C. Like its previous...
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Fast Cities: Denver's Teacher-Incentive Program Gets a Gold Star
The new issue of Fast Company includes a feature on so-called "fast cities"—cities that employ revolutionary ideas, ones that could serve as...
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Is the Hype on Waiting for Superman Getting Heavy?
We told you on Friday that Paramount Vantage had snapped up the rights to "Waiting for Superman," the new documentary by Davis Guggenheim,...
Education
A World Without Private Schools
Celebrated charter school founder Steve Barr likes to envision an education system where private schools are illegal. "What would happen if Bill...
Education
D.C. Schools Are Losers in Gilbert Arenas Suspension
We all know Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas screwed himself by brandishing a gun in his team's locker room late last year. What many...
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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...
